Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This telephone call made me think back over the years . |
| 2 | ‘ Four of them got together over a couple of decanters of port and I listened to what I could . |
| 3 | Now I realized how over the centuries this window must have provided an incomparable panorama of the goings-on in the village . |
| 4 | That 'll be lovely , I say politely over the telephone , do come round , it 'll be nice to see you . |
| 5 | From the inner-city I steer shakily over the Liffey and through the cobbled streets and mixed primary colours of old Dublin , through a wide stretch of bleak , bland suburbs and onto a motorway . |
| 6 | I waded out over the shallows until I came to them , and gathered the ones I could , looking up from my harvest as Esmerelda and kite struck out for the North Sea . |
| 7 | In an attempt to retrieve it gracefully , I did a half turn ; the backs of my knees hit the arm of one of a pair of chairs and I toppled backwards over the chair and landed on my hat , wedged between the chairs with my legs in the air . |
| 8 | ‘ The Faskally boatman brought me across the foot of the loch and I came straight over the hill to the Brig of Grandtully . ’ |
| 9 | I walk quietly over the patio , onto the grass and towards the house , just waiting for the blaze of light from the security lamps . |
| 10 | I hear a clattering in the air as McDunn gets out of the Jag and I look up over the trees into high , bright overcast . |
| 11 | When I look back over the years I see impatience as the great sin of life . |
| 12 | I clambered back over the wall , crossed the orchard and , as usual , entered H.Q by the back door . |
| 13 | I 've been bald from a very early age , but I happen to be in the hairdressing industry and I travel all over the world teaching . |
| 14 | I lit up a Rothmans as I walked jerkily over the park , shivering , the cigarette rushed to my head and I felt better as I drew on it strongly , cupping the end in the palm of my grubby hand . |
| 15 | After work the same evening , my husband and I walked all over the golf course and were eventually rewarded by spotting the dog in the distance , although we failed to coax her towards us . |
| 16 | I stepped carefully over the city wall , which was less than a metre high , and walked slowly through the two main streets . |
| 17 | The last pitch was a real sting in the tail , but the perplexing moves up a short crack in a wall soon succumbed to brute force and determination and I swung exultantly over a final bulge on the monstrous , weathered holds to sit satiated on the plateau , soaking up the sun until Alec pulled over , grinning with triumph . |
| 18 | As I stumbled forward over the black earth , between borders of sooty rhododendrons and tired grass , I just could n't believe it . |
| 19 | I stared out over the crowd . |
| 20 | I looked out over the empty white road to the sky and saw the morning sun sparkling . |
| 21 | There the colonnade was wider and the slender arches more open ; standing in the deep shade , I looked out over the tree-tops and the sea to the languishing ash-lilac mountains … a déjà vu feeling of having stood in the same place , before that particular proportion of the arches , that particular contrast of shade and burning landscape outside — I could n't say . |
| 22 | Climbing up on to a high bastion , I looked down over the shimmering interior of the fort and thought of the words that must once have been a set text for the cavalrymen stationed here : |
| 23 | I thought back over the times I had watched the ploughing ; in late autumn at the potato harvest , and in the summer , slopping through the flooded paddy fields . |
| 24 | And when I thought back over the conversation , I realised that it was an extremely unlikely thing to have happened . |
| 25 | ‘ Things are obviously becoming very busy and I went in over the weekend to do a bit of work . |
| 26 | Last month I went back over the past 40 years of owning knitting machines and described some of the ways that I made sufficient money for the machines to pay for themselves . |
| 27 | ‘ I went totally over the limit . |
| 28 | Consequently , I fell straight over a bench , + bruised my skin nastily . |
| 29 | No , I think probably over the years every avenue , other than perhaps this one , has been exploited to the full . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , Doc , I do normally but I did n't over the weekend . ’ |