Example sentences of "[pers pn] [v-ing] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This evening I visited Scouse 's latrine , the mosquitoes and all the flies were having a fieldday ; there were clouds of them hanging over the latrine in the still evening air . |
| 2 | I mean the first couple of days , we spent a lot of time just trying to cool people down and and stop them panicking and er and stop them going over the top . |
| 3 | Mr Fordy said : ‘ Our concern is not to catch them going over the bridge but to stop them going over the bridge . ’ |
| 4 | Mr Fordy said : ‘ Our concern is not to catch them going over the bridge but to stop them going over the bridge . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I saw you looking over the fillies , ’ he said with a braying laugh . |
| 6 | " And are you living over the shop ? " |
| 7 | Oh Are you going over the shops ? |
| 8 | and that 's can I phoning round everybody keeping tabs , what are you planning over the next three months , aha |
| 9 | We were standing in the loft , watching them flying over the fields for half an hour , until darkness fell and we lost sight of them in the gloom . |
| 10 | There is no way he can focus on the ball properly with him looking over the front shoulder . |
| 11 | Seeing him towering over the young hedgehog like that , licking his great , greedy chops … |
| 12 | Dreams and reality had collided in her shocked mind with stunning force , sending her hurtling over the edge of that invisible precipice , and the fall had broken her into a thousand agonising pieces , like brittle shards of glass that could never be whole again . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's going to be a wonderful evening , ’ said Camille , ‘ with her drooling over the waiter , and me nearly dying of fright at the slightest sound , and you sitting there thinking . ’ |
| 14 | Firemen secured the bus with ropes to stop it tumbling over the edge before escorting the petrified passengers to safety . |
| 15 | Her outstretched hand disturbed a fragment of loose rock , sending it tumbling over the precipice ; for one hideous moment she fancied the entire ledge was on the move and about to hurl her into the chasm . |
| 16 | rainbow climbing high , everyone can see it climbing over the sky , rainbow , here 's a rainbow yeah today poor |
| 17 | A sense of gloom blanketed his thought as he looked down to the dark water and heard the hiss of it rushing over the invisible weir ahead of him . |
| 18 | ‘ It hisses at you if it sees you , and Trudy says she saw it flying over the lane one night on the witch 's broomstick . ’ |
| 19 | The cursed little white stick of wood always did annoy me , and when I see it domineering over the whole orchestra , music departs from me … |
| 20 | I do n't know why , good God what the hell 's he doing over the road ? |
| 21 | I could see it sailing over the trouble and landing on the green . |
| 22 | The only small quibbles I have are the shape of the zip pullers , which sometimes dig into hips when a rucksack 's carried , the lack of a horizontal chest pocket to take a map ( very useful when navigating in poor weather ) and a wired hood , which would stop it falling over the eyes at inconvenient moments . |
| 23 | He could see it skimming over the surface of the black waters of the Liffey far below . |