Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv prt] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ God , though , it 's tempting , ’ William says , leaning back and letting Andy crane out over the pyramid of glasses again . |
| 2 | Andy and William are standing on a seat ; Andy leans out over a table laden with glasses , a champagne bottle in one hand and his other arm held by William , who leans out the opposite way to balance him . |
| 3 | Visual illusions are an excellent illustration , in fact , of the division between a specialized and autonomous mechanism for seeing and the cognitive system which determines whether we should believe what we see , as Helmholtz pointed out over a century ago . |
| 4 | Executive Support Manager Allan Paterson looks back over the TOP Programme as it has progressed at Hunterston and considers some of its achievements . |
| 5 | An elegant BMW drew up over the road and Fatimah Bankhead , the chain-smoking Islamic feminist , stepped out . |
| 6 | He said that looking out from the platform towards the town reminded him of the late President Kennedy looking out over the Berlin Wall . |
| 7 | Sam looked out over the flooding river and breathed in the damp smell of the morning as if testing wine for bouquet , and I thought that he lived through his senses to a much greater degree than I did and was intensely alive in his direct approach to sex and his disregard of danger . |
| 8 | Tabitha leaned out over the railing . |
| 9 | Emily lifted her head and breathed in the sweet March air , it was good to stand in the garden of Summer Lodge looking out over a tranquil sea with timid waves reaching for the shore . |
| 10 | Bill looks out over the pond . |
| 11 | There was a lot more rhubarb , along the lines of ‘ Yes , what ? ’ and ‘ What are we going to sing , brothers ? ’ and then Mrs Quigley cut in over the top of this with a cadenza that would not have disgraced Dame Kiri Te Kanawa . |
| 12 | From his high-rise office Carson looked out over the roofs of Rome , then at the colonel across the desk , then finally up at Hawkins . |
| 13 | Gunga drove off over the bridge as I looked around for a suitable spot to get some practice in . |
| 14 | The hotel Santon looks out over the lake which is this area 's main attraction . |
| 15 | Nick Clark looks back over the Maxwell era . ) |
| 16 | Mounting a size 8 Green Highlander , John cast out over the stream . |
| 17 | So , so John came in over the top , Colin put his hands on top line , so John said I 'm in charge , over the top , Colin said , no . |
| 18 | Flying at around 50 feet in conditions of poor visibility the Blenheims pressed on over the sea , crossing into Germany just south of Cuxhaven and swinging south towards Bremen . |
| 19 | Jotan leaned out over the rail and stared at the movement at the foot of the stairs . |
| 20 | So very early one morning when the wind was a moderate westerly and made northward progress easy , Creggan set off over the great industrial cities to find the high ground beyond them that he sensed would be there . |