Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Four of them got together over a couple of decanters of port and I listened to what I could . |
| 2 | That 'll be lovely , I say politely over the telephone , do come round , it 'll be nice to see you . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ The Faskally boatman brought me across the foot of the loch and I came straight over the hill to the Brig of Grandtully . ’ |
| 6 | I walk quietly over the patio , onto the grass and towards the house , just waiting for the blaze of light from the security lamps . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I stepped carefully over the city wall , which was less than a metre high , and walked slowly through the two main streets . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As I stumbled forward over the black earth , between borders of sooty rhododendrons and tired grass , I just could n't believe it . |
| 13 | ‘ I went totally over the limit . |
| 14 | Consequently , I fell straight over a bench , + bruised my skin nastily . |
| 15 | No , I think probably over the years every avenue , other than perhaps this one , has been exploited to the full . |
| 16 | What 's worse … when I travelled all over the lane , |
| 17 | I pondered hard over the reply to my friend 's question . |
| 18 | The only positive aspect is that since it attracts the seediest sort of tourist , it keeps them all in one place like a gigantic concrete fly-paper , and stops them wandering all over the unspoiled parts of the Highlands looking for go-cart tracks and timeshare chalets . |
| 19 | Undoubtedly the strangest of Sulawesi 's amazing fauna , the babirusa , a species of pig with four tusks , two of which curve backwards over the head . |
| 20 | There is a sad inevitability about the battles which wage continuously over the future of the wilder uplands of Scotland . |
| 21 | The beetles protect theirs by turning the front pair into stiff thick covers which fit neatly over the top of the abdomen . |
| 22 | The adventure takes place in our world ( Earth , that is ) and Luigi can find himself transported all over the world . |
| 23 | These cars had wooden roller blind destination boxes mounted on stanchions which curved outwards over the ends of the half canopies . |
| 24 | It is this turn to ‘ passivity ’ which remains critical to this very day ; today 's tabloid press can only be reinforcing a process which began well over a century ago . |
| 25 | The two square yards of broadloom devoted to the open hallway were almost blocked by a large bamboo plant , made of plastic , which waved majestically over a little fountain cascading water over two plastic shell-shaped basins which miraculously never overflowed . |
| 26 | But this year , it has finally decided to flower profusely , forming brownish clouds which drift hazily over the bush . |
| 27 | Now I have to tell you that last year we raised a hundred and thirteen million pounds and of that over ninety per cent , that 's a hundred and four million pounds were actually spent on projects for children and I 'm very proud of that ratio indeed and I think it ought to give you , the raisers of money , a great deal of comfort because for a fund with two headquarters buildings which operates all over the world this is a distribution of funds of which to be proud . |
| 28 | After 1560 , this new English church was engaged in the task of establishing its traditions and defining its boundaries , a process which lasted well over a century and was only effectively completed by the end of the seventeenth century . |
| 29 | Predictably United returned breathing fire in the second half , but went no closer than Denis Irwin 's 58th minute free kick which dipped just over the bar . |
| 30 | For a moment he allowed himself to slump forward over the wheel , wanting to blame the world for his despair but knowing , because he was not unintelligent , that the despair stemmed from something lacking in himself . |