Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [adv prt] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He reached up for the handle , grasped it , tried to turn it once , failed , tried again and this time dropped face down over the threshold as the door swung open . |
| 2 | Just think what we have struggled to build up over the years , for what we call job security . |
| 3 | There , suspended just above the domes and minarets of the old city , a perfect silver crescent could be seen shining out over the rooftops . |
| 4 | There were paintings stacked at the side of the room — whether finished or not , she did not know — but the thing that was most touching , the thing that stopped her forward momentum was a chair by the lower window , obviously placed to look out over the valley and the distant forest . |
| 5 | She has had to give in over the question of chrome : and the Foreign Minister , who never struck me as being too friendly towards us , failed to get away ( as he apparently hoped ) with letting armed German ships through the Straits . |
| 6 | Most of his days were spent huddled round over the fire and George knew that his parents were worried about his Uncle 's condition . |
| 7 | Major Wiseman has stated that the plane was presumed shot down over the Channel . |
| 8 | Ha had things been allowed to run down over the war ? |
| 9 | BBN last escaped the axe in 1986 and was subsequently revamped under its current editor Jennifer Creswick , but it has never been far from the blade as the Council has been forced to cut back over the years . |