Example sentences of "[verb] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ross Wyndham was all that she had tried so hard to forget — and more : tall , lean , dark and almost painfully attractive , his tanned skin darkened further by the thick black hair , which was swept back like a lion 's mane over his well-shaped head before sweeping down to curl over the top edge of his collar . |
| 2 | This guitar 's overall colouring has obviously darkened with the passing of over three decades , and the lacquer is now finely cracked over the close-grained spruce top . |
| 3 | Now once again lights and darks are juxtaposed arbitrarily to create a sense of shallow relief , and are evenly scattered over the entire picture surface to maintain a compositional balance . |
| 4 | When I looked carefully I could see lots of orange fragments scattered over the sodden grass and glistening brown earth of the field . |
| 5 | Figure 5 shows their distribution with time ; 49% occurred in the first four seconds after the onset of the common cavity episode and 34% were scattered over the 5th to the 27th second after the onset of the common cavity . |
| 6 | ‘ We were just taking some reciprocal photos for my kid , ’ Florian explained insouciantly as he stood up , indicating the photos of Joni scattered over the glass-topped coffee-table . |
| 7 | When , in 1884 , G. T. Clark [ q.v. ] published his Mediaeval Military Architecture in England , she realized that it contained false assumptions about the origins of the various mounds or mottes scattered over the British Isles . |
| 8 | All that remains now of the sixteen dwellings Seller burned are a few tumbled stones , scattered over the green hillside . |
| 9 | The disk has large granular spinelets , some of which are just rounded others with a crown of 3 or 4 points , scattered over the dorsal and ventral surfaces . |
| 10 | There are simple spinelets scattered over the dorsal surface of the disk although they are often rubbed off in preserved specimens . |
| 11 | Although parts were scattered over the surrounding fields , the main body of the plane had landed in one piece . |
| 12 | To these eight , a further thirteen children were added over the next twenty years . |
| 13 | The shadow of our plane skipped across the bright sea , then flickered over the outer coral . |
| 14 | Her eyes , set amongst crow's-feet when she smiled , flickered over the other people in the canteen . |
| 15 | His eyes flickered over the bulging hold-all . |
| 16 | Sunlight sought out the gaps and flickered over the new-green fields far below . |
| 17 | There was little spring in the ancient planks and Miss Barnsdale towered beside the box horse , ready to yank at the arms of any child who did n't manage to leap over the rough leather back first time . |
| 18 | There was a mixture of the formal and the informal about it ; the Keeper of Zoology in the 1810s was wont from time to time to leap over the stuffed animals . |
| 19 | The advocates of " Unity " argued , however , that a considerable change had come over the Communist Party and that it had given up its " social fascist " accusations . |
| 20 | To this man he entrusted six wagonloads of treasure , and sent him off to wander over the whole wide world , looking for a twin brother and sister , Stoja and Stojane . |
| 21 | The ton and a half of car rocked , driving over the ice-hardened ruts carved out by farm tractors in kinder weather . |
| 22 | Driving over the wide crossroads , for the second time , without another car to be seen , she had a vision of herself driving around all night . |
| 23 | It seemed downright immoral to torment the poor woman with questions now just for the sake of proving the Jaguar 's brakes were faulty or Fanshawe driving over the seventy limit . |
| 24 | ‘ That you ’ Means the person driving over the prescribed limit , i.e. the identity of the driver . |
| 25 | Circumstantial evidence could take the form of showing the defendant wished to cover up an offence committed by himself , such as driving over the prescribed limit , being involved in an accident and then , as mentioned ( C ) 2 ante alleging that someone else was driving at the time of the accident . |
| 26 | Then Ariel bent over the drowsing Sycorax . |
| 27 | He bent over the small instrument . |
| 28 | Amazingly she found herself treated to a brief smile as Niall , hair concealed beneath the operating cap , glanced briefly in her direction before he bent over the unconscious man once more . |
| 29 | Kathleen bent over the unconscious patient and sniffed . |
| 30 | Then , as he bent over the still-unpacked weekend bag to retrieve his clothes , I had a blinding vision . |