Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The refurbishers have been in and out over the generations . |
| 2 | We 'll just have to tell everybody , she goes , right the way down and straight over the top |
| 3 | He dared not move , for fear of starting a slide of loose stones that would carry him down and irresistibly over the edge of the quarry . |
| 4 | A niggling hip injury , which has troubled him on and off over the past year and hampered his preparation , was closer to the root of his troubles than any age-related downswing . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've seen him on and off over the years . ’ |
| 6 | That misconception had continued on and off over the following six or seven years . |
| 7 | The seagulls wheeled off and up over the harbour . |
| 8 | A currency which gradually adjusts up or down over a period of time , depending on the intrinsic strength of the economy which supports it , is much less likely to attract the eye of the speculator than one which is about to burst the artificial dam which has been built around it . |
| 9 | When she looked up she could see the bees shooting up and away over the wall , and by each hive there was a continual coming and going of bees , some of whose pouches were brilliant with golden pollen . |
| 10 | If your weight has gone up and down over the last year ( or ten years ! ) try to remember when and why it was up or down . |
| 11 | If you weave half way across a row and stop and take off the sinker plate , you 'll see the weaving yarn weaving up and down over the needles . |
| 12 | Andy licked his fingers and started to stroke them up and down over the purple bulge of his cock . |
| 13 | She thumbed the pages quickly , her eyes running up and down over the print . |
| 14 | There is not much sound , except perhaps the musical whirr and clack of a mowing machine being pushed back and forth over a neighbouring lawn , and the clink of cups and saucers and a soft footfall as tea is prepared indoors . ’ |
| 15 | Sometimes he would secretly watch other eagles whose territory he had trespassed over , to learn from them the art of quartering back and forth over an area to find prey and flush it out |
| 16 | In my home in Wales last week , I paced back and forth over the flagstones , my aerial before me , like a dowser looking for water . |
| 17 | He made loud wailing noises as he sailed back and forth over the wall , missing the top by inches . |
| 18 | The top stitches coil back and forth over the back stitches , see above right . |
| 19 | The thieves had obviously been back and forth over the ravine ferrying everything back to their car . |
| 20 | And all the time I was talking I rolled my swabs back and forth over the frozen Thames . |
| 21 | With the saw blade set at 15° the jig locates in the mitre fence slots of the saw table , sliding back and forth over the blade . |
| 22 | As the plants moved in the breeze , the sunlight dappled and speckled back and forth over the brown soil , the white pebbles and weeds . |
| 23 | As we had hoped , swallows , house martins and sand martins zipped back and forth over the lake , fly-catching , or skimming low to sip , their beaks cutting a line across the still surface of the water . |
| 24 | I spat into my fingers and used them , then found his foreskin was loose enough to be rolled back and forth over the head , and did that for a while . |
| 25 | He stood by the door , listening for movement , and again heard the slow footsteps , pacing back and forth over the carpet . |
| 26 | Donna took a step closer , her gaze travelling back and forth over the gilt-framed painting . |
| 27 | Written as a journalistic offering without benefit of references or even a bibliography , it still manages to inform the reader on many of the internal features of Saddam Hussein 's rise to power , though it has an infuriating tendency to dart back and forth over the past 30 years , too much like a 1960s film trying to be clever . |
| 28 | Birds sewed back and forth over the line . |
| 29 | This is what the strategists in the Strategy Unit would call a Debatable Land — a territory on the frontier between different empires which has changed hands back and forth over the years . |
| 30 | He lowered himself on to her breasts and she moaned as he held himself up on his elbows and barely allowed himself to touch her , his hard chest sliding lightly back and forth over the aching tenderness of her bosom . |