Example sentences of "[verb] down over the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We drank the tea squatting in the shade , gazing down over the desert and the river valley . |
| 2 | Gazing idly over the rolling green lawns , she watched the red glow of the sun , slowly beginning to sink down over the horizon . |
| 3 | Cabinet negotiations had broken down over the balance of power in the government , with the " small coalition " demanding greater control over the economy than the PSL was prepared to concede . |
| 4 | You can see there 's been a wee bit of damage to that ligament just where it goes down over the top of that bone . |
| 5 | Still in his underclothes , Ebenezer lay sprawled across the bed , his head hanging down over the side , his one hand clawing at his throat . |
| 6 | Drape over , press down over the top and sides , and smooth to fit over the corners before trimming away excess around the base . |
| 7 | The dark , lazy appraisal moved down over the jut of her breasts beneath the soft material , and she shivered involuntarily , despite the warm night . |
| 8 | Though her hair was not quite dry Franca began to plait it very fast , letting a long thick plait materialise between her nimble hands , then tossing it over her shoulder and letting it hang down over the back of the chair . |
| 9 | Bakhramov 's opinion that an extra-time shot by Geoff Hurst had hit the underside of the crossbar and bounced down over the goal-line prompted Swiss referee Gottfried Dienst to allow the goal which gave England a 3–2 lead . |
| 10 | The cassock had a thin hood , held in place over the attendant 's head and face by what looked like the brim from an old and worn red hat ; it was squeezed down over the attendant 's head , the top of the hood showing through where the hat 's crown should have been . |
| 11 | After the glue has been applied to both edges of each segment and they are assembled , the banding clamp is dropped down over the assembly and tightened until the joints close up tightly . |
| 12 | The clouds have dropped down over the mountain so that the evangelicals and charismatics on the first contour above the town have vanished into the mist . |
| 13 | As she bent down over the fire , her nose-ring and the silver coins of her necklace glinted fiercely . |
| 14 | The generally cooperative partnership between the local states and the developers did break down over the distribution of investment profits from central shopping development . |
| 15 | The doctors said that he would have bled to death at a lower altitude and I 'm sure this is so , because as we let down over the Channel his bleeding started again . |
| 16 | We were in a car looking down over the Bay and I said I 've got to go out . |
| 17 | When the verdict came down over the radio earlier that afternoon , I thought it had to be some kind of misunderstanding — a joke . |
| 18 | Tomorrow , May 21 , at a few minutes before six in the evening it will be precisely half a century since Wellington DV841 came down over the County Durham village of Roddymoor . |
| 19 | Or had it been shot down over the Channel ? |
| 20 | But long ago , in 1946 , the questing and the questioning had become almost unbearable , and I knew that to keep my sanity I must force myself to an arbitrary conclusion : I would believe the least terrible of terrible possibilities — that the plane had been shot down over the Channel by enemy action . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Wot ? ’ demanded Camille , peering down over the banister rail . |
| 23 | He reached up for the handle , grasped it , tried to turn it once , failed , tried again and this time dropped face down over the threshold as the door swung open . |
| 24 | The Castle was faintly lit by the soft light of the moon , and Grainne , pausing to look down over the courtyard through a small side window , saw how the countryside was bathed in radiance . |
| 25 | The vent pipe from the hot water cylinder ( 22mm ) should rise at least 400mm above the water level in the cistern before turning down over the cistern . |
| 26 | He giggled girlishly , as if he were contemplating some impromptu lobotomies , and the beard , which flowed down over the steering wheel , rustled suggestively in the hollow socket of the speedometer . |
| 27 | She could look down over the rail into a walled sunken courtyard belonging to the basement flat , a brick-lined niche with some white cast-iron garden furniture and some shrubs in open barrels . |
| 28 | It often gets me when I am in a high building or can look down over the city , or sometimes at a station when there is another journey to begin . |
| 29 | Walk from the Malá Strana end of the bridge past the first six pairs of statues listed below , then look down over the edge to your right over Kampa Island . |
| 30 | A long , narrow band of cloud has been moving down over the country and will continue to do so throughout the night before it moves away eastwards tomorrow , being replaced by clear skies to the west . |