Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] over the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Raw council estates spilled over the fields at the edge of town , marring the views . |
| 2 | If six garages are now placed over the five cars on the top shelf ( leaving one garage empty ) , and four garages placed over the four cars on the bottom shelf ( all garages being full ) , then about one in three four-year-olds now maintain that the bottom shelf has more cars . |
| 3 | In the early spring , Peckham will meet the health minister , William Waldegrave , to present him with a set of firm plans developed over the past months . |
| 4 | In 1957 Macmillan inherited the leadership of an unpopular government , lagging behind Labour in the opinion polls , but the policies pursued over the years to 1959 managed eventually to retrieve the party 's position : Macmillan 's nuclear ‘ defence ’ policy seemed at the time a plausible way to reclaim the status of a world power on the cheap ; the formation of EFTA was negotiated ; Macmillan sacked the deflationary Chancellor Thorneycroft and substituted Heathcoat-Amory who instituted another convenient bout of pre-election tax cutting . |
| 5 | The company , founded in 1974 to create and publish practical reference books for adults , now sells its titles in over 80 countries and in 37 languages and almost 90 per cent of the 560 titles originated over the company 's history are still in print . |
| 6 | A similar situation in some respects developed over the office of fiscal of the regality court of Lennox , or Mugdock , an appointment which was held by William Weir , the town clerk of the burgh of Rutherglen , a gentleman who also officiated as commissary of Hamilton and Campsie . |
| 7 | There are simple spinelets scattered over the dorsal surface of the disk although they are often rubbed off in preserved specimens . |
| 8 | TWO teenagers quizzed over the murder of schoolgirl Helen Gorrie , 15 , were last night released without charge by police in Horndean near Havant , Hants . |
| 9 | When I looked carefully I could see lots of orange fragments scattered over the sodden grass and glistening brown earth of the field . |
| 10 | He wore a gold watch on his wrist ; fine , gold hairs curled over the white , nylon strap . |
| 11 | Her eyes moved over the room too . |
| 12 | Indeed it is difficult to exaggerate the impenetrability of the mystery which for centuries hung over the problem of the strength and fracture of solids . |
| 13 | He was keeping his head pointed firmly downwards , but he could feel a disresonance and his eyes searched over the stencilling shading of rock , scrub and moor . |
| 14 | They have to address questions such as why people buy an inefficient fridge , when more efficient models are available , and how consumers balance a greater initial cost with savings made over the life of an appliance . |
| 15 | His lips closed over the whole of that puckered orifice , and she could feel his tongue darting into the very folds of her anus . |
| 16 | And when her soft red lips closed over the tip of his rapacious tool , he felt he was being lifted into paradise . |
| 17 | She gasped as his lips closed over the taut mound of her breast , her body sensitised , waiting , begging for his caress . |
| 18 | The crew lost control of the ballast system after seawater splashing through broken portlights washed over the ballast console and caused it to malfunction . |
| 19 | A small hole was dug , the cigarette buried , songs sung over the grave and then the whole procession wended its w ? y round the field four times singing the funeral march from Aida , which we had been practising for a week . |
| 20 | This may vary from a few words exchanged over the garden fence , to visits which last all day . |
| 21 | They did n't even get as far as the bedroom , one of the soft rugs strewn over the carpeting in her lounge serving as their bed of reunion , Maria still partly and Luke almost fully clothed as they subsided on to its subtly glowing colours . |
| 22 | The girls were now too close to their exam , too anxious to do more than lift their faces to him , but out of the tiredness and filth of lime he could be seen looking often at their heads bent over the lamplit pages in what looked close to melancholy and sunken reflection . |
| 23 | A servant arrived with some freshly made jus de citron and for the next half-hour the three of them remained with heads bent over the materials which would do so much to enhance Félix 's English collection . |
| 24 | His eyes played over the building in front of them — a jumble of towers , crenellations and massive walls with a sagging Rag of St George above the gatehouse picked out in the beam of a spotlight . |
| 25 | Vincent 's demands mounted over the years until they seemed to flood in — as they often did — by every other post . |
| 26 | While the Blackpool cars ventured over the ex-Company tracks as far as the Cabin , soon after the Gynn junction was completed , it was not until 1926 that double-deckers reached Bispham . |
| 27 | Some accounts also suggest that these waves swept over the low-lying parts of St Pierre , near the waterfront , causing some damage and casualties . |
| 28 | Her eyes swept over the audience as far as she could see beyond the footlights . |
| 29 | Then , as her eyes swept over the crowd clustered round the stage , she did a double-take , spotting one figure much larger and more powerful than the rest . |
| 30 | Repeat the process for squares 91 to 135 then 136 to 180 and you will have the first 38 rows of squares printed over the full 180 needles , complete with your colour key . |