Example sentences of "[verb] up over the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Even though you have checked things over thoroughly , there is always the distinct possibility that something electrical will pack up over the Christmas period . |
| 4 | There are cert certain categories of business that we 've built up over the year . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Kates actually drop their torpedoes and then climb up over the ship superstructures as the torpedoes hit home . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | discuss this with officers , the same came up over the weekend . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A moment later , a second rider came up over the lip of rock and drew up beside the first . |
| 11 | As he came up over the rise he thought he heard a beautiful song . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He went out and took the path that leads up over the ridge to the ferry . |
| 17 | We have to go up over the fell . " |
| 18 | Even so , considerable errors can build up over the period of ten or more years that elapses between one Census date and the time when the finalized results of the next Census can be used . |
| 19 | There was no name painted up over the door . |
| 20 | If I have to listen to one more candidate telling me he sees the job as a challenge I 'll throw up over the boardroom table . |
| 21 | Tall people from all over the country met up over the weekend for the first-ever gathering of Britain 's first Tall Persons ' Club . |
| 22 | In the mêlée Eastwood/Thorogood rode up over the veneer K2 of Ning/Xu and sunk it , the Chinese holding onto the British boat for about half a minute despite some unapproved use of a British paddle . |
| 23 | Erm it 's g there now obviously the end of year it builds up over the end of the year partly because it relies on the extra recruitment and the increasing sales per er per capita erm or per capita sales I should say . |
| 24 | A hundred yards beyond Woil a pair of white seagulls wheeled round in the sky , dived over Three Island Pond , and then soared up over the Zoo , free against the summer sky . |
| 25 | In the early morning , waking up to a fierce easterly wind and a leaden sea , the children gathered in the dining room to find snow fluttering through the rafters and piling up over the breakfast plates . |
| 26 | It 's pretty good here — they got photos of food all lit up over the counter so you can just point . |
| 27 | The Rosses remained tied up over the weekend until discovered by their daily on Monday . |
| 28 | As the twitchers gawped , a sleek tabby cat slithered up over the wall … |
| 29 | For here they are — rising up over the city |
| 30 | A moment later he reappeared , crawling up over the edge , then slowly standing . |