Example sentences of "[v-ing] down over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We drank the tea squatting in the shade , gazing down over the desert and the river valley . |
| 2 | Still in his underclothes , Ebenezer lay sprawled across the bed , his head hanging down over the side , his one hand clawing at his throat . |
| 3 | We were in a car looking down over the Bay and I said I 've got to go out . |
| 4 | They leaned against the heavy stone balustrade of the terrace , looking down over the gardens , dark and mysterious . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Wot ? ’ demanded Camille , peering down over the banister rail . |
| 8 | He got out of the planes coming , we , we was coming over from de Laborgie and you give him the needle and I had to lead him off the lead him off the plane , and going down over the chimneys in Chantilly to landu Laborgie he goes , woo ooh ooh , getting ready you know . |
| 9 | The vent pipe from the hot water cylinder ( 22mm ) should rise at least 400mm above the water level in the cistern before turning down over the cistern . |
| 10 | They looked large against the light pouring down over the flat land . |
| 11 | But the skies were darkening and the rain was pouring down over the fields . |
| 12 | His mouth played over the silken plane of her stomach , drifting down over the pliant swelling of her abdomen , and little whimpering cries broke from her lips . |
| 13 | A long , narrow band of cloud has been moving down over the country and will continue to do so throughout the night before it moves away eastwards tomorrow , being replaced by clear skies to the west . |
| 14 | People become vulnerable : they feel very thin-skinned ; over-sensitive and self-pitying ; moody and unpredictable , with a cheerfulness that is transparent and brittle ; they may become tearful , perhaps breaking down over an item of television news or for no apparent reason at all . |
| 15 | The Government 's principal task in the months to come will be to restore the right mix of monetary and fiscal policy — now badly out of balance — so that interest rates have a better chance of coming down , and staying down over the long run . |
| 16 | The newcomer was ostentatiously dressed in robes slashed with yellow taffeta and bound by a gold cord very similar to one used by Benstede , although the latter had a row of knots in his to prevent it slipping down over the loops on his gown . |
| 17 | Right , I 've just got a , two or three minutes , I 've just wan na get something quickly done before we , we close and I 'm not gon na look up all the references , because your get them for next week any way in , in the house group , but , now , now in a sense it 's difficult to understand to take all this in after all his God and were people , how do we understand Jesus , it 's , it 's difficult , however knowing something about them does help us to understand something important , it helps us to understand what happened when Jesus ascended , when he went back to heaven , you see when Jesus arose from the earth the , the disciples who watch him it says there in Acts chapter one , they saw him go up in to the heaven , up into you know in a cloud , have you ever thought what that really means what on earth was it , they saw him go up in a cloud , can you image a sort of great clouds coming and dropping down over the mountain top there and was suddenly whisking Jesus up and then watching Jesus going up in this cloud into the sky , I do n't really think it was quite like that , have you ever wonder why it was that Jesus went up in a cloud , you see what was he doing , he was n't beginning a journey to some far off place in the universe , some distant corner where God the father was , he was n't doing that at all , what do you think a cloud can you , give any suggestions of what a cloud might represent because very often a lot of some of the language in the bible is picture language and it , it , it speaks as something else , what do , what do you think a cloud , does any body have suggestions of what a cloud might speak to us about , or speak to us of , sorry , power yeah , any thing else |
| 18 | It was difficult to see exactly what she looked like , for she and Rupert were bending down over a table examining something together . |
| 19 | Place your hands gently over the eyes , the heels of your hands creating the darkness , with the fingers extending down over the temples . |
| 20 | The sun 's dipping down over the trees and a breeze gets up , rustling the leaves on the ornamental shrubs and blowing some grit into my left eye , making it water again . |