Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This telephone call made me think back over the years . |
| 2 | I waded out over the shallows until I came to them , and gathered the ones I could , looking up from my harvest as Esmerelda and kite struck out for the North Sea . |
| 3 | I hear a clattering in the air as McDunn gets out of the Jag and I look up over the trees into high , bright overcast . |
| 4 | When I look back over the years I see impatience as the great sin of life . |
| 5 | I clambered back over the wall , crossed the orchard and , as usual , entered H.Q by the back door . |
| 6 | I stared out over the crowd . |
| 7 | I looked out over the empty white road to the sky and saw the morning sun sparkling . |
| 8 | There the colonnade was wider and the slender arches more open ; standing in the deep shade , I looked out over the tree-tops and the sea to the languishing ash-lilac mountains … a déjà vu feeling of having stood in the same place , before that particular proportion of the arches , that particular contrast of shade and burning landscape outside — I could n't say . |
| 9 | Climbing up on to a high bastion , I looked down over the shimmering interior of the fort and thought of the words that must once have been a set text for the cavalrymen stationed here : |
| 10 | I thought back over the times I had watched the ploughing ; in late autumn at the potato harvest , and in the summer , slopping through the flooded paddy fields . |
| 11 | And when I thought back over the conversation , I realised that it was an extremely unlikely thing to have happened . |
| 12 | ‘ Things are obviously becoming very busy and I went in over the weekend to do a bit of work . |
| 13 | Last month I went back over the past 40 years of owning knitting machines and described some of the ways that I made sufficient money for the machines to pay for themselves . |
| 14 | Charlie 'd said he wanted to phone Lilian and when I come back over the road he was in a phone box . |
| 15 | She gazed out over the flat , dark countryside as the lights of Ghent were left behind . |
| 16 | As she bent down over the fire , her nose-ring and the silver coins of her necklace glinted fiercely . |
| 17 | She looks out over the back gardens of John 's quiet neighbours . |
| 18 | As Annie adjusted the nappies under the wriggling body , she glossed back over the previous week . |
| 19 | If you have given birth , can you look back over the process and recognize how it has changed you ? |
| 20 | ‘ Are you going in over the weekend ? ’ she asked , already missing the contact . |
| 21 | I think it 'll come but , well , we 're rather impatient I think when you look back over the past hundred years you see some massive erm changes which are quite unprecedented . |
| 22 | When on 24 August 1921 she broke up over the Humber on a final exercise in sharp turns , Maitland , on board but not in command , died with forty-two others . |
| 23 | In summer from the Ridgery you looked out over the tops of the trees . |
| 24 | Lying in bed , she thought back over the conversation , blaming herself for having interfered in such a private matter . |
| 25 | She stared out over the sea . |
| 26 | Prodding it experimentally , and finding it quite firm , she looked up over the roof . |
| 27 | She looked out over the rows of eager faces waiting for her to justify her educational policy , and she could n't think of a word to say . |
| 28 | She looked out over the northern part of the lake to Burtness Wood , where the rain on the leaves made a sound she loved . |
| 29 | She looked out over the smudged white landscape of Regent 's Park , then peered at the road below . |
| 30 | ‘ Of course I have , ’ she answered , her gaze unconsciously wistful as she looked out over the smooth water of the lake . |