Example sentences of "[verb] up over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An elegant BMW drew up over the road and Fatimah Bankhead , the chain-smoking Islamic feminist , stepped out . |
| 2 | I cut off the path proper and charged up over a dune and down its other side to where the service pipe carrying the water and electricity to the house appears out of the sand and crosses the creek . |
| 3 | To succeed , they have to be able to draw on their full resources , built up over a lifetime . |
| 4 | Strombolian activity continued for most of this time in the little cone built up over the fissure , until it was a respectable thirty metres or so in height , while the lavas snaked down-slope in several glowing tongues , permanently ruining many of the best skiing slopes , engulfing one by one the pylons that carried the cable-way , and demolishing the upper cable-station . |
| 5 | Even though you have checked things over thoroughly , there is always the distinct possibility that something electrical will pack up over the Christmas period . |
| 6 | Er and it 's a force commitment it is n't I mean short of saving up over a period of years which we are not allowed to do |
| 7 | The special school sector was built up over a century or more . |
| 8 | Another proof is taken and so the print is built up over a period of time . |
| 9 | Strong and sometimes quite intense relationships with individuals are built up over a period of even a few weeks . |
| 10 | Clearly memories are not formed instantaneously , as if by throwing a switch , but are built up over a period of hours after the event to be memorized has occurred ; during this build-up the form in which any memory is stored changes . |
| 11 | it is n't necessary , well it is the same as saying it is n't true , it is n't necessary er because this will be built up over a period and it will be for er the Government in all the normal ways in the public expenditure round to decide how much goes into the passenger franchises and through that therefore into the Briti the Rail Track investment . |
| 12 | In fact there was a , I think some of the recent erm concerns about schools have come from an image that 's been built up over a period of time that the schools spend very little time on the , on the three Rs for example . |
| 13 | It contains the practical experience of the members of MAS built up over a number of years of carrying out a wide variety of MAS assignments . |
| 14 | So we realize we 're not gon na be here to change the habits that have built up over a lifetime . |
| 15 | There are cert certain categories of business that we 've built up over the year . |
| 16 | I feel his glare now , but let my own eyes wander past the fence to the yellow lattice of the heavy lifting gear and the big iron disc of the magnet hanging down , and the motorcar-mountain that has built up over the holiday season . |
| 17 | Bluebeard 's castle , it was , or Mr Fox 's manor house with ‘ Be bold , be bold but not too bold ’ written up over every lintel and chopped up corpses neatly piled in all the wardrobes and airing cupboards , on top of the sheets and pillowslips . |
| 18 | The Kates actually drop their torpedoes and then climb up over the ship superstructures as the torpedoes hit home . |
| 19 | The cyke came up over a dune , and Mostyn and Cheadle caught it in a crossfire . |
| 20 | They were in their plastic bags on the outdoor grounds , and as the sun came up , it came up over the top of the hill and hit the silver pyramid and there was David on stage singing . |
| 21 | discuss this with officers , the same came up over the weekend . |
| 22 | When eventually the moon came up over the edge of the trees he was able to see a group of four men and three horses coming towards him . |
| 23 | A moment later , a second rider came up over the lip of rock and drew up beside the first . |
| 24 | As he came up over the rise he thought he heard a beautiful song . |
| 25 | Of the verderers he could see nothing , but so strong was his sense of present danger that Allen remained half-hidden watching until the sun came up over the forest and the wet rock slabs of the Waste shone like glass and he could feel the first faint warmth of the sun 's beams striking on his face . |
| 26 | The new measures , similar to those in force in Britain and the US , were drawn up over the summer by Mr Lang 's Ministry , which is said to be interested in extending the French insurance model to the whole of Europe . |
| 27 | So I flipped some cattle from the farm of and right between Egilsay and Rousay just a short distance , oh maybe a quarter of a miles or thereby , and oh did the shipping perfectly well and and went home and by the time I got home the message had arrived back before me that the there were two old cattle among the younger ones that the fellow had put there just to feed up and the last we saw of them was going up over the island and that was okay we thought everything was okay . |
| 28 | Even relatively small preferences made year by year by the same committee add up over a decade to a major strategic shift in budget priorities . |
| 29 | Nothing is invisible to radar , but a stealthy aircraft shows up over the background noise only at so close a range that radar , which has dominated air and combat for two generations , is virtually useless against it . |
| 30 | He went out and took the path that leads up over the ridge to the ferry . |