Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Black rain clouds were scudding in over the Thames . |
| 2 | We drank the tea squatting in the shade , gazing down over the desert and the river valley . |
| 3 | Still in his underclothes , Ebenezer lay sprawled across the bed , his head hanging down over the side , his one hand clawing at his throat . |
| 4 | We were in a car looking down over the Bay and I said I 've got to go out . |
| 5 | They leaned against the heavy stone balustrade of the terrace , looking down over the gardens , dark and mysterious . |
| 6 | Roll out most of this ( 450g/1lb ) to a large circle and use to cover the cake , smoothing down over the sides and over the join . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They 're just doing us out of money that we 've been saving up over the years . |
| 9 | And the mile-high fuel club topping up over the North Sea . |
| 10 | She could n't resist the challenge of swimming back over the tide when the boys suggested it . |
| 11 | Since the death of Tito in 1980 , and with the growing economic crisis , which is felt by Serbians to have particularly affected them ( although there is , in fact , little evidence that Serbia 's relative position has fallen in comparison with Yugoslavia as a whole ) , a growing number of Serb intellectuals have been looking back over the past and asking themselves whether Serbia was discriminated against under ‘ Titoist ’ rule . |
| 12 | At last she said slowly , ‘ What I mean is , looking back over the past is always a bit sad , even if what you 're remembering is happy times , because it 's over and done . |
| 13 | Said his friend-cum-mentor , Irving Layton , in looking back over the period , ‘ I had a very sharp feeling in the early fifties that poetry in Canada had come in from the cold and was starting to gain momentum . ’ |
| 14 | Looking back over the season it seems to me supporters can have little cause for complaint . |
| 15 | We have taken various risks looking back over the years , like Wapping . |
| 16 | Looking back over the years , the initial aim of creating awareness has been substantially achieved . |
| 17 | Looking back over the years at the relative strengths of Japan versus the US in the semiconductor industry — a polarisation that will always make the news in Japan — during the 1970s , the US had an advantage , Grove said , which faded in the 1980s when Japanese manufacturing disciplines , just-in-time and its clearly superior semiconductor manufacturing equipment led to the Japanese gaining the upper hand , particularly in memory chips . |
| 18 | Indeed , looking back over the years , I have become surprised , not that people murder each other but that , given our love of bloodshed , they do n't do it more often . |
| 19 | Anyway , looking back over the years I can imagine what that poor bastard at Smithfield felt . |
| 20 | Looking back over the Birthday Scheme Register , there are gaps in some people 's giving for some months . |
| 21 | The belly swells out under the belt , but the skirt falls thence to the feet free of the legs , and its simple cylinder , fanning out over the feet , is closely channelled in vertical folds which contrast with the smooth cloak ( a scheme of oriental origin ) . |
| 22 | Standing side by side , looking out over the gardens twinkling with lights , Sophie wondered why she felt remote from any romantic interest in her companion . |
| 23 | Here also are commemorated the men of the Newfoundland Regiment whose monument is a splendid bronze caribou , looking out over the trenches of Camp Terre Neuve . |
| 24 | She sat down and leaned back against the rock looking out over the sweep of moorland . |
| 25 | ‘ Who will do this deed ? ’ asked Mayor Badger , looking out over the throng . |
| 26 | This time it was held in St Margaret 's Hope School , the newly built primary school in a commanding position on a hill above the village looking out over the sea . |
| 27 | Here I sit looking out over the sea , on this little rag of an island , Uskair . |
| 28 | Its summit was a good vantage point for looking out over the course . |
| 29 | Standing there , looking out over the expanse of the tarn , the reader will surely be astonished that these miners of old had once contemplated draining the tarn by driving a level underneath it . |
| 30 | It was once full of treasures , but all I could think about as I stood on the battlemented roof , looking out over the Aegean , was that a disciple of Christ 's had sat in his cell in a little monastery half-way up the hill recording the extraordinary revelations he had been vouchsafed . |