Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Black rain clouds were scudding in over the Thames . |
| 2 | We drank the tea squatting in the shade , gazing down over the desert and the river valley . |
| 3 | Still in his underclothes , Ebenezer lay sprawled across the bed , his head hanging down over the side , his one hand clawing at his throat . |
| 4 | His turnout exceedingly elegant , the father was walking on over the hard curd-white earth down the double track of the carts towards the small port on the coast ahead . |
| 5 | His hand slid down over her back , his fingers splaying out over the firm swell of her bottom , pulling her body closer still to his . |
| 6 | They seemed to have everything in command at Pickie on Saturday , but let the BLI come storming back over the last few ends to win on three of the four rinks . |
| 7 | We were in a car looking down over the Bay and I said I 've got to go out . |
| 8 | They leaned against the heavy stone balustrade of the terrace , looking down over the gardens , dark and mysterious . |
| 9 | Roll out most of this ( 450g/1lb ) to a large circle and use to cover the cake , smoothing down over the sides and over the join . |
| 10 | Leaning forward I had a view of it in the side mirror , the bend we had just rounded obliterated by a great mass of avalanching rock and mud that went spilling down over the edge to disappear into the cloud vapour below . |
| 11 | Er and it 's a force commitment it is n't I mean short of saving up over a period of years which we are not allowed to do |
| 12 | They 're just doing us out of money that we 've been saving up over the years . |
| 13 | There may be now perestroika , everybody teaming up over the Middle East problem , but we are actually at war economically with all the countries outside this country and most of them , the young people are better trained , people , and better educated , longer educated , higher standards and also at work , there is much more training at work . |
| 14 | And the mile-high fuel club topping up over the North Sea . |
| 15 | She could n't resist the challenge of swimming back over the tide when the boys suggested it . |
| 16 | Just finally looking back over a career that spans now five decades , is there anything you 'd have done differently over the years ? |
| 17 | Said his friend-cum-mentor , Irving Layton , in looking back over the period , ‘ I had a very sharp feeling in the early fifties that poetry in Canada had come in from the cold and was starting to gain momentum . ’ |
| 18 | We have taken various risks looking back over the years , like Wapping . |
| 19 | Looking back over the years , the initial aim of creating awareness has been substantially achieved . |
| 20 | Since the death of Tito in 1980 , and with the growing economic crisis , which is felt by Serbians to have particularly affected them ( although there is , in fact , little evidence that Serbia 's relative position has fallen in comparison with Yugoslavia as a whole ) , a growing number of Serb intellectuals have been looking back over the past and asking themselves whether Serbia was discriminated against under ‘ Titoist ’ rule . |
| 21 | Looking back over the Birthday Scheme Register , there are gaps in some people 's giving for some months . |
| 22 | Looking back over the last two years , portraits and townscapes , in Berlin or in other locations , predominate . |
| 23 | Looking back over the years at the relative strengths of Japan versus the US in the semiconductor industry — a polarisation that will always make the news in Japan — during the 1970s , the US had an advantage , Grove said , which faded in the 1980s when Japanese manufacturing disciplines , just-in-time and its clearly superior semiconductor manufacturing equipment led to the Japanese gaining the upper hand , particularly in memory chips . |
| 24 | At last she said slowly , ‘ What I mean is , looking back over the past is always a bit sad , even if what you 're remembering is happy times , because it 's over and done . |
| 25 | Looking back over the season it seems to me supporters can have little cause for complaint . |
| 26 | Looking back over the last 19 years he said : ‘ Having had the opportunity to set up and develop the education service in Lothian has been enormously challenging and satisfying and I believe it is an education service of good quality with many forward-looking policies now established . |
| 27 | Indeed , looking back over the years , I have become surprised , not that people murder each other but that , given our love of bloodshed , they do n't do it more often . |
| 28 | Anyway , looking back over the years I can imagine what that poor bastard at Smithfield felt . |
| 29 | Looking back over the first decade of his regime , in a radio broadcast made to mark the tenth anniversary of the end of the Civil War , Franco crowed , |
| 30 | Looking back over the two games we made it extremely difficult for ourselves in Moscow . |