Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stress it is which poisons the innocent spangles of daisies , dissonantly warps the song of the idiot birds or leers gibberingly over the useless privet . |
| 2 | Every moment of Rainbow 's existence during my time at the Fair has been tracked , recorded , docketed and programmed for easy-edit , so I am able to wipe , play-back , freeze-frame or skim fast over the boring bits . |
| 3 | If you start to choke on something , put your fist into the soft spot under the middle of the ribcage and keeping ‘ punching ’ yourself , or bend forwards over the back of a chair and bounce your abdomen off it . |
| 4 | Now it 's not immediately obvious from that time series that there 's a structural break , right , textile consumption has n't fallen dramatically , right , or risen dramatically over the post war period , oh sorry du during the er the war period . |
| 5 | For instance , in a group of patients with rheumatoid and osteoarthritis who were treated with an elimination diet followed by a wheat-free diet , cervical reintegration and the green-lipped mussel preparation , Seatone , significant and often dramatic improvements were obtained in a fortnight of an order similar to , or better than , those obtained by either homoeopathy or Seatone alone over a period of three to six months . |
| 6 | Lear 's birds fill the page , stalking warily or glowering protectively over a half-dead prey ; his eagle owl , perhaps the most famous of all , glares menacingly from the shadows of twilight , its great yellow eyes mirrored by a lull moon . |
| 7 | He owed his life to Corbett who had saved him from a choking death at Tyburn , yet Corbett was still mysterious ; working constantly , his only pleasure being the flute , some manuscript or sitting quietly over a cup of wine brooding about life . |
| 8 | He straightened up and gazed anxiously over the end of the bed at her . |
| 9 | ‘ So am I. ’ Heather turned again to the opening and gazed hard over the fields to where the spirals of smoke were rising behind the bushes . |
| 10 | The longer upper tusks grow upwards through the skin and curve backwards over the eyes . |
| 11 | This way the lining stretches as easily as the knitted skirt and fits smoothly over the waist . |
| 12 | Dawn Run took the lead from the start and hopped nimbly over the first two fences . |
| 13 | Humpbacks , sperms and rorquals formed the basis of an extensive antarctic whaling industry , which began in 1904 at a single whaling station on South Georgia and expanded enormously over the next three decades , making use of both shore stations and pelagic fleets . |
| 14 | Serves 4. 4 lamb steaks , about 675g ( 1½ lb ) 4 garlic cloves , skinned and crushed 3 tbs extra virgin olive oil 450ml ( ¾ pint ) dry cider 225g ( 8oz ) trimmed leek 100g ( 4oz ) potato 25g ( 1oz ) spinach and parsley , mixed 4 tbs single cream or low-fat fromage frais Crush garlic and rub well over the lamb . |
| 15 | Mix the herbs into the softened butter and rub all over the lamb . |
| 16 | After his death his empire could barely be sustained by the new rulers ( including Charles the Bald and Charles the Fat — is it possible to hold an empire together when the populace is taking the mickey out of you to that extent ? ) and crumbled away over a period of two centuries . |
| 17 | The contents of all of them had been pulled out and scattered all over the floor . |
| 18 | The Soviet statistics were terribly messy and scattered all over the place but Davies and Barker finally succeeded in teasing them out and knocking them into some sort of shape . |
| 19 | Or you can simply sabotage the thing by coughing loudly and exploding all over the place and then of course they simply ca n't use it . |
| 20 | The arm uncurled onto Richard 's chest and moved there over the nipples and down onto the tensing stomach . |
| 21 | But the elephants went gaily dancing and trumpeting away over the mountains , through Roumania and Georgia , through Turkey , Iran , and Afghanistan , until they came to their native land . |
| 22 | Defries and Ace crawled up to a hollow , and peered cautiously over the lip . |
| 23 | Shouting and blasting all over the loud speakers ! |
| 24 | Modelled here by Adele Curry , a student at the Blackpool and Flyde College of Hair and Beauty , the amazing creation which took two weeks to complete and stands well over a foot high is in celebration of Blackpool Tower 's £13 million transformation into Tower World . |
| 25 | Her heart felt amazingly light , and she knew it was because of Tom and the way they were talking and laughing together over the morning 's task . |
| 26 | There 's no way that a farrier can shoe a horse that is so angry or frightened that it is rearing and leaping all over the place . |
| 27 | The relative positions of the players changed and changed again over the second half and , as we waited on the eighteenth tee , Miguel had edged yet again one shot ahead of Jack . |
| 28 | What has changed , and changed radically over the period from the late 1960s to the early 1980s , has been the perception of that culture . |
| 29 | Montreal is an unusual city , made up of 50 villages which have grown and merged together over the years to form the modern conurbation : about 100 square kilometres in size ( 60 square miles ) , encircled by the St. Lawrence River . |
| 30 | The aim of Heidrick and Struggles ' approach is to build a team that can truly work and integrate together over a number of years . |