Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do most of the damage , knocking on doors , daub writing all over the place . |
| 2 | Cos it starts going all over the place . |
| 3 | Here I sit looking out over the sea , on this little rag of an island , Uskair . |
| 4 | The very term ‘ course ’ implies a definite path of study ; the student is not going to go wandering all over the intellectual map . |
| 5 | There , suspended just above the domes and minarets of the old city , a perfect silver crescent could be seen shining out over the rooftops . |
| 6 | Using a small palette knife , spread icing all over the cake . |
| 7 | yeah , she says , she says spitting all over the place |
| 8 | They had gone into the largest of the rock shelters , one which he himself used when he felt very bold and did not mind looking out over the vacancy of the Waste . |
| 9 | On this day he was gliding home to our airfield and only just made it back with less than a hundred feet as he arrived flying downwind over the boundary . |
| 10 | Move away to avoid flying directly over the field , but keep it within easy reach all the time . |
| 11 | As young men , they managed to avoid falling out over the tendentious terms of their father 's will . |
| 12 | Conversation is like playing tennis with a ball made of Krazy Putty , that keeps coming back over the net in a different shape . |
| 13 | The effect on wading birds has been dramatic , with numbers of lapwing , curlew , redshank , godwit and snipe falling dramatically over the past 10 years alone . |
| 14 | Charles Lamb can be found sheltering modestly over the initials ‘ C.L. ’ in Hone 's periodic publications . |
| 15 | He would not allow any Mario-type figure to start jumping all over the dinosaurs . ’ |
| 16 | Would you have her dragged up by a succession of au pairs and housekeepers while you went gallivanting all over the world ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | One day , with me clinging to you — what rapture ! — on the pillion , we made a trip to Zamora , a small medieval city to the north of Salamanca. ft was one of those heavenly , crisp autumn days , all sunny chills and skies of broken clouds whose grotesque shadows went moving slowly over the bare brown earth of the fields and hills . |
| 19 | The soldiers bent over to form the arches but they were no good as they kept moving all over the place and there seemed to be no rules or sense of order to the game . |
| 20 | Our classroom is one floor up and we saw Julius Rottwinkle go sailing out over the garden like a Frisbee and landing with a thump in the middle of the lettuces . |
| 21 | Why do you think these mentions of him kept cropping up over the years ? |
| 22 | ‘ So you 've opted out of the war effort , ’ he greeted her nastily , ‘ to go swanning all over the Pacific ? ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Even this did not make Donald crane his neck forward and start retching all over the table . |
| 25 | I remembered setting out over the Crib Goch to do the Snowdon Horseshoe and reaching Lliwedd . |
| 26 | He thinks he 's Apollo and goes ravishing all over the place , all the girls are after him , his wife 's not very pleased . |
| 27 | After dinner we would sit looking out over the three arms of the lake and talk until , drowsy with sun , swimming , food and wine , we went off to bed . |
| 28 | We began a more than modest tour in Buxton in October 1940 and continued touring all over the country , with occasional visits to the Prince 's Theatre or the New Theatre [ now the Albery ] in London , until the war ended . |
| 29 | A few paces away , Detective Eddy stood gazing out over the heads of the crowd . |
| 30 | Once more she stood gazing out over the garden , but this time everything seemed different — so different that when he took her gently into his arms it was so natural that she made no attempt to draw back . |