Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they crept slowly forward over the plain his eyes searched for those tiny villages made of mud with their bamboo groves and their ponds ; and though the plain was perfectly flat the villages were somehow hidden in its folds , blending with it . |
| 2 | Many thatched cottages were built on the brow of a hill overlooking the sea ; and a large potato-field , divided into elongated sections , gave ample scope for many Lewis families to prove that union is strength , for they were busily engaged lifting the crop : each family group was complete in itself ; those who had the most children got most quickly over the ground : many hands make light work , and young backs bend easily . |
| 3 | The military rode roughshod even over the Ukrainian Bolsheviks . |
| 4 | For some time all three moved on quietly over the grass , while the shadows grew stronger and the wood-pigeons clattered among the distant trees . |
| 5 | Slorne became still and took stance on the branch quite near to Creggan , her head tilting to one site , ant her eyes staring out at the sunset sky that rose massively now over the Cages . |
| 6 | A deep depression with a centre varying between 968 and 978 millibars moved from the Faroes to the mouth of the Elbe , while behind it a ridge of high pressure built up strongly over the Atlantic . |
| 7 | I suppose it built up slowly over the years … ’ |
| 8 | The divorce rate rose fairly steadily over the decade apart from a notable , but not entirely sustained , increase after the liberalising of the laws in 1984 . |
| 9 | It is important to stress that the method of control has in fact changed quite substantially over the last few years . |
| 10 | They remembered uncomfortably that Tobermory moved freely all over the house and gardens , at all hours of the day and night . |
| 11 | Lights came on all over the Ship . |
| 12 | Feet came along smartly over the sand and dirt of the path , were cushioned briefly by the grass of the bank into inaudibility , then snapped over twigs and beech-husks . |
| 13 | The sense of violence and anger , together with passionate interest , spilled out all over the place . |
| 14 | A head of black silky hair came very slowly over the top of the rail until two dark cherry-like eyes could see over the top . |
| 15 | Not in the same way that I knew of his brother , who made money in biscuits and owned a gleaming Daimler car which he drove very cautiously over the potholes in the road outside our house . |
| 16 | Immediately behind and above the waterfall , the sloping hillside had become a fifty-foot smooth rocky cliff , so that the water poured not only over the edge above , but out into the pool , leaving a ledge along which Bill Robins now beckoned me . |
| 17 | A flock of chattering sparrows came over the Cages , landed on the grass by the litter bin where Woil had taken stance , and then twittered off again over the tigers ' cages . |
| 18 | According to Froissart he had to be carried to Limoges on a litter ; his health deteriorated still further over the winter of 1370 , and in January 1371 he returned to England . |
| 19 | Sicked up all over the hideous tangerine carpet . |
| 20 | For months afterwards copies of forms turned up all over the Manchester office . |
| 21 | After the last of these ( which , being the keeper 's , now stood empty ) the road degenerated into a track , and the track degenerated even more over the next mile until it was only twin ruts with grass between them . |
| 22 | They showed a thick scattering of settlement , of cottages and small farmhouses dotted about all over the place , and a corresponding splitting up of fields into small crofts and paddocks . |
| 23 | The wind-chill factor was obvious , but the wind-skill factor was non-existent and a series of nasty vendettas sprung up all over the pitch . |
| 24 | following the Robbins Committee Report in 1963 new universities sprang up all over the country and tertiary education in general was in a state of unexampled euphoria . |
| 25 | In the relatively affluent days of the 70s and early 80s leisure centres , squash courts and swimming pools sprang up all over the place , much of it made available through international funds . |
| 26 | After what seemed like several hours but was probably only a few minutes , we heard an aircraft approaching , and heads popped up all over the hut . |
| 27 | For example , in April 1991 a cyclone storm surge killed over 130,000 people in Bangladesh as the sea penetrated far inland over the low-lying coastlands . |
| 28 | The whole proceedings will be filmed here and transmitted simultaneously all over the archipelago . ’ |
| 29 | In so far as one so young and beautiful could look morose , Irene Charial gazed out morosely over the taffrail of the Ariadne . |
| 30 | I gazed out wildly over the crowds . |