Example sentences of "[v-ing] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ground was soft and squelchy when she got out of the car , and she felt mud oozing over the top of her shoes . |
| 2 | The Town Hall clock struck three , and still it was warm , April sunlight lying across the pool , lacing over the backs of fish . |
| 3 | It is a psychologically unrewarding task for the person soliciting over the telephone , and this is reflected in the vernacular term applied to the location from which such solicitation takes place — ‘ the boiler room ’ . |
| 4 | We drove out of the city on the now four-laned highway , passing the airport and driving over the bridge where I silently saluted the ancient tower standing in the tide-water below , the place where the Sheikha had fallen from her camel . |
| 5 | Donald , who describes himself as a Friend of the Earth , does not himself hold a driving licence , but has taken it upon himself to publish a list of prominent men and women who have had the misfortune to be caught driving over the limit a judge , a chief superintendent , various footballers , actors , television personalities — in what he chooses to call his Hall of Shame : It is the number of celebrities we have discovered that is so shocking . |
| 6 | do n't say that a level crossing or where the road narrows , on approached any type of pedestrian crossing or where it would involve driving over an area marked with diagonal stripes to or che chevrons , do not overtake when you do so would force another vehicle to swerve or slow down , if in doubt do not overtake so where 'd you not overtake ? |
| 7 | Before Grant 's shocked eyes , the nightmare figure fell weakly forward against the far end of the big console , its remaining hand groping over the surface towards a red button . |
| 8 | It is quite acceptable to ask to sample before you buy , although this is only possible if you are purchasing over the counter . |
| 9 | Two more of the creatures hovered around the craft , walking over the wings and flashing their teeth at the hysterical passengers . |
| 10 | Days of uncertain weather , riding out , walking over the sands , in the beechwoods . |
| 11 | Through the whole of the long night that followed , Boldwood 's dark figure could be seen walking over the hills of Weatherbury like a ghost . |
| 12 | I was looking for drugs and walking over the aerosol cans . |
| 13 | She just goes er walking over the moors |
| 14 | In less sophisticated times , people searching for minerals picked up clues simply by walking over the ground and examining it visually . |
| 15 | A man had been walking over the ground outside . |
| 16 | On the other hand , it 's also like walking over the end of a plug-hole . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , she was walking over the stones and I wondered if she was cut , but she was n't . |
| 18 | Our dad loves walking over the fields when he comes home tired from working in the city . |
| 19 | Then a reminder of the tragedy came during World War I when a Polish soldier was walking over the bridge one starlit night when he saw the wraith of a man dancing on the parapet . |
| 20 | He had gone up to Magdalen College , asked at the Porters ' Lodge , discovered the grounds were closed ; then just carried on walking over the bridge , around the Plain , and back again down the High . |
| 21 | Hundreds of miners from the western valleys were walking over the hill to the stricken village . |
| 22 | but the strong impression I had is walking over the hill from Kettleborough where the gun club now is walking down into this valley and seeing that view of this little end of the village nestling in the hollow and I can remember feeling a extraordinarily strong sensation that I could easily live there |
| 23 | It is much worse than a judge at Cruft 's checking over the points of a Pomeranian or Pekinese , and you are more likely to be bitten . |
| 24 | He looked up at me and grinned quickly before hunching over the controls again . |
| 25 | The sudden descent into abuse took McLeish by surprise and he realized he must have shown it , because the girl literally got a grip on herself , folding her arms and hunching over the table . |
| 26 | The Scottish new towns constitute a microcosm of what is happening over the whole of Britain . |
| 27 | Why had he not continued climbing over the gate , said good-night , and gone off down the hill ? |
| 28 | I 'm still not keen on that side of it — it 's nice to be popular , it 's nice to be loved , but it 's not so nice to be chased round and to be on the front page of the paper every day of your life , with people climbing over the wall all day long . |
| 29 | One , Catherine Barton , absconded after supper by climbing over the wall and did not return until the next morning after 7 o'clock . |
| 30 | Without thinking about it she was climbing over the wall . |