Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [v-ing] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was n't laughing , ’ she said , all too horribly aware of a wave of disappointment washing over her . |
| 2 | At this point all three friends felt an unruly wave of amusement sweeping over them , and the rest of the fire-drill was spent desperately avoiding each other 's eyes in case a fit of the giggles should descend , and they were all agreed ( especially Mildred ) that this would definitely not be the thing to do . |
| 3 | In both there is a differentiated level of criticism standing over and above both art and life . |
| 4 | As she came through the side roads to her house she heard a few trial notes on a wind instrument of some sort — a clarinet , was it ? a run of notes that seemed to carry on where the last solitary trill of the bird had stopped , and then a beat , beat , beat of a bass and a drum slowly swinging in , and the band , trying out their numbers high up in a house , lilted together into a piece , melancholy at base with gay little twiddles from the clarinet bravely calling that nightfall was not the end of hope , not a closure — a little bit of swing filtering over back gardens to draw people out , out into the spring night , a beat along the channels of their blood suggesting that this hour , as the light dies , as the dusk creeps along the ground , is not an ending but a beginning . |
| 5 | Slate we wanted to produce we want , you know if there a lot a bit of waste going over the tip , we were n't so much worried bout the waste , cos we was on the bonus we were making the slates and that . |
| 6 | Sprawled on his back on the deck , he lay exhausted under a waterfall of waves breaking over the cabin top . |
| 7 | Reid felt the first spasm of panic sweeping over him for he knew what Lester was after but Reid just grunted back at Piggott which provided no encouragement at all and he must have been one of the most relieved jockeys in the race to see the starting stalls open for even in the parade beforehand he still had visions of Lester taking over . |
| 8 | She could see the face of Tim thrust out of the window and guessed that the look of triumph playing over it was in expectation of the early capture of herself ! |
| 9 | And when Crowe declared at lunch , England reappeared with the spectre of defeat hanging over them . |
| 10 | There was a great black scribble of cloud hanging over Algeciras . |
| 11 | I do n't think either , given the succession of scandals and the aura of sleaze hanging over the Secretary of State 's quango sector that anyone would deny that in terms of value for money and financial probity , direct democratic control is a far better watchdog than the financial control systems of the Welsh office . |
| 12 | Soon after , he checked out in Vegas , the suspicion of murder hovering over the coroner 's report . |
| 13 | Outside there was the sound of wheels crunching over the snow and the creaking of a cart . |
| 14 | If an owl swoops down on the kangaroo rat , the kangaroo rat is alerted by the sound of wind passing over the bird 's wings and can evade the grasping talons . |
| 15 | Should we ever achieve this , there are those faint hearts who have unkindly suggested the added attraction of pigs flying over ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 16 | Headache from back of head going over forehead |
| 17 | However , Mr Palmer said that a constant video of cars passing over the Severn Bridge at the time , showed no Renault 25 . |
| 18 | There should n't have been a cattle herd of feet trampling over the grass . |
| 19 | It leads on to one of the basic processes of geographical inquiry , to study the impact of processes occurring over time on different areas . |
| 20 | Only she could see him , a gash of red streaking over the pasture . |
| 21 | THE faint pall of dust hanging over Montepulciano 's precipitous lanes presumably heralds the approaching festival of the arts , directed every July by the composer Hans Werner Henze . |
| 22 | In her chamber , her naked sexuality is like a flickering tongue of flame playing over the body of her lover . |
| 23 | There is nobody jumping up and down for joy at the news , and morale , which has been comatose , now has a sense of mortality hanging over it . |
| 24 | So many awful thoughts — this terrible sense of doom hanging over me . |
| 25 | Apart from ice-skating and hockey in my youth , I was not keen on participating in sport , but the sight of skiers gliding over the unmarked hills of newly fallen snow was enticing ; so when the actor Jack Bowdry invited me to have a go at the ski-run atop Grouse Mountain , across the inlet from Vancouver , I agreed with alacrity . |
| 26 | But the reward for setting off early is the sight of dawn breaking over the South Rim and spilling into the Canyon . |
| 27 | Economics and geography could be altered by human , at least European , agency : ‘ Reversing the trend of people going over the border is the long-term objective ’ ( whose objective — whether that of the World Bank , of Britain , of other unnamed financial interests , or even perhaps of the Lesothans themselves — is left unclear ) . |
| 28 | Sitting alone in that darkened little room , I could sense the shadow of death lying over the hospital as tangibly as I could see the shadows of night in the corners of the room and outside the window . |
| 29 | There 's , we have a lot of Australians teaching over there , a lot of Canadian and a lot of British as well |
| 30 | The economist 's Utopian dream of a rural railway without station staff , platelayers and expensive signalling staff came closer with the introduction of radio signalling over the Far North lines from Inverness . |