Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | More confusion arose over the terms " project work " , " coursework " , " investigations ' and " problem solving " and they were often used indiscriminately . |
| 2 | His bulk bulged over the invisible box he perched on . |
| 3 | Dawn had begun to break , and daylight crept over the barren countryside . |
| 4 | I looked past Robin-Anne to where the moon 's path gleamed on the long waves , and then I glanced forward and saw another belt of silver , but this one diffuse and hazy , showing where the first crepuscular light seeped over the world 's grey edge . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , IBM Corp shares plunged $5.50 to $72.50 on the day the company reported a stunning net loss after charges for the third quarter of $2,778m last week and scepticism rose over the prompt promise in the analysts ' call after the announcement that the dividend is safe . |
| 6 | The tiny beam of light flickered over the telephone — and back . |
| 7 | Suppose a car came over the hill , and I ran out , and whoever was in it got out — suppose he was crazy ? |
| 8 | Whatever the reason , the gloom which her defeat threw over the racing scene was genuine . |
| 9 | His condition deteriorated over the next week until he required ventilation . |
| 10 | His mind raced over the landing instructions . |
| 11 | Since construction has already been covered in Section 2 , this section is limited largely to ‘ internal ’ interpretation and the cases regularly cited as instances in which the testator 's intention triumphed over the words he had used . |
| 12 | Then he lifted the body so that the blood dribbled over the stones and spilt on to the ground in front of him , where it was littered with the remains of other , older offerings — dead flowers , grains of rice and barley , a few coins . |
| 13 | Her mind stumbled over the new/old certainly that the garden-master she had loved was indeed a puppet . |
| 14 | Quickly they spread it out , and it became a sail ; the boat flew over the waves , faster than the sea-people could follow . |
| 15 | The gentleness and kindness which they preached as the very foundation of its teaching , and as insisted on by Jesus Christ himself , now stands starkly contrasted with the history of cruelty and violence perpetrated over the centuries in the name of Christianity . |
| 16 | The sandwich leapt over the doorframe and vanished into the chirping , velvety , dangerous night . |
| 17 | So , too , in Ponting v. Noakes , the plaintiff 's horse reached over the defendant 's boundary , nibbled some poisonous tree there and died accordingly , and it was held that the plaintiff could recover nothing , for the damage was due to the horse 's own intrusion and , alternatively , there had been no escape of the vegetation . |
| 18 | But confusion reigned over the idea of the menstrual cycle . |
| 19 | The soldier looked over the parapet and saw to his horror the vague heap of a body ; he scrambled down the bank but as he approached , the vision slowly faded , there was no one there . |
| 20 | His mind drifted over the people whom he had heard about for the first time that morning , groping for some sort of perspective . |
| 21 | sing the bear went over the mountain ? |
| 22 | Oh the bear went over the mountain the bear went over the mountain |
| 23 | Oh the bear went over the mountain the bear went over the mountain |
| 24 | the bear went over the mountain to see what he could see . |
| 25 | The bear went over the mountain , the bear went over the mountain , the bear went over the mountain to see what he could see . |
| 26 | The bear went over the mountain , the bear went over the mountain , the bear went over the mountain to see what he could see . |
| 27 | The bear went over the mountain , the bear went over the mountain , the bear went over the mountain to see what he could see . |
| 28 | The bear went over the mountain the bear went over the mountain , the bear went over the mountain |
| 29 | The bear went over the mountain the bear went over the mountain , the bear went over the mountain |
| 30 | The bear went over the mountain the bear went over the mountain , the bear went over the mountain |