Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , perhaps more importantly , no other player could ( Law 18. ( 2 ) ( d ) ) wilfully fall on or over a player lying on the ground with the ball in his possession . |
| 2 | Many talks fail because speakers talk down or over the heads of their audience . |
| 3 | ( 6 ) In this section — " disposition " has the same meaning as in the Law of Property Act 1925 ; " interest in land " means any estate , interest or charge in or over land or in or over the proceeds of sale of land . |
| 4 | ( 6 ) In subsection ( 5 ) above — " disposition " and " purchaser " have the same meanings as in the Law of Property Act 1925 ; and " interest in land " means any estate , interest or charge in or over land or in or over the proceeds of sale of land . |
| 5 | The square , window-type frame gives practice with moving in and out as well as up , down and over the top of , and there is experience of being enclosed within a three-dimensional shape . |
| 6 | Desperate to charge our batteries , we linger as long as we dare before racing off down and over the glacier , through the boulders , and onto the base-camp grass . |
| 7 | New copper washers under the dome fixing nuts appears to have cured them but a new ‘ 0 ’ ring on the breather seat still allows the oil to pass through and over the engine . |
| 8 | Gibbons communicate and hold territories by means of loud hooting voices that carry through and over the forest canopy . |
| 9 | All the time I was attempting to identify by ear bird noises in the spinney : a jay screeched raucously ; ‘ My toe hurts Betty , ’ crooned a wood pigeon ; a tiny wren ticked its loud emphatic alarm notes ; and over and over a willow warbler trilled . |
| 10 | Over and over the events of the day I go , vainly searching for where I went wrong … |
| 11 | She could almost touch him now , but he was frowning , running his finger over and over the Paisley pattern on the corner of the duvet that overlapped the sill . |
| 12 | He had been wakeful all night , gnawing over and over the tangle of his doubts and fears , and unable to worry his way through them to any certain hope . |
| 13 | Dave talked right on and over the start of the lyric , and then made it worse by trying to pretend that his mistake was intentional . |
| 14 | Consequently , the carriage started to knit , then slid off and over the needles . |
| 15 | Very gently the two women drew the light quilt away , sliding it from under the arm of the sleeper , drawing it down at both sides , peeling it off and over the end of the bed . |
| 16 | Go past that , then there 's one or two ne ne newish buildings and then you come up to a spot where you drive in and you go up or over the concrete , that 's Norblast |
| 17 | He lumbered into the back of the truck , pulling himself up and over the tailboard . |
| 18 | Headed back up by to , hook ball , looking for , gets his head underneath and it 's just over the top of the bar , he got the full force of his head beneath that ball and it looped up and over the top of er an anxious looking Paul crossbar . |
| 19 | Now the cruisers ' engines abraded up and over the hills , their clackering drone in need of silencers . |
| 20 | Move your hands to the forehead and smoothly stroke the brow , hand-over-hand up and over the hair to the crown of the head . |
| 21 | Oncoming bikers seemed intent on taking the short cut up and over the Aussie 's Nissan . |
| 22 | There are infrared-sensing security lights on the wall of the house and if they go on then the whole thing 's off ; I 'm up and over the wall and back into the woods and away . |
| 23 | The wind was hissing loudly over them , whipping off their tops and spraying them into a conveyor-belt of sand , an opaque draught , streaming across the road and up and over the dunes on the other side . |
| 24 | You could spend weeks pedalling up and over the North York Moors , but if you 've only got a weekend to spare , then the Rosedale area is without doubt the place to go . |
| 25 | Sunlight reflected from a window among the palm trees to lance a sliver of dazzling light at our cockpit , then the reflection was gone and we were at sea level , engines screaming , and I fumbled for the camera , prayed it had not broken when it fell from the ceiling , and took another picture just before Maggot lifted the aircraft 's nose so that we swooped up and over the palm trees that edged the beach . |
| 26 | Until we drove up and over the Atlas , I had not thought for years about our time in London . |
| 27 | Gaining enough height and momentum for the somersault would have required the energy of a team of acrobats to propel him up and over the horns . |
| 28 | He could see small fields , woods and a lake up there , and from the lake a river spilled out and over the edge … |
| 29 | ‘ I thought he 'd saved it at first and was turning to run back to defend when it popped out and over the line . |
| 30 | around or over the world in 30 days of driving … that 's the dream of two local motoring enthusiasts who are taking their old morgan car on the longest … the toughest rally of them all … they 've been getting themselves into gear in the Malverns and we 're off there to join them for our Friday feature |