Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [adv prt] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In so doing the newcomers have contributed to the sense of urban encroachment on rural political affairs among farmers and landowners which goes back over a much longer period , and which has been associated with changes in the institutions of political control in the countryside : the gradual decline in the personalized and autocratic power of the locally resident squirearchy and the transfer of public administration to a more formal and impersonal framework of local government since local politics were first placed on a democratic footing in 1888 . |
| 2 | From the terrace of the house , grimed with soot and wind , one looked down into a grey , fogged landscape of endless slate-roofed ‘ back-to-backers ’ and soaring mills throbbing with trundling looms , glittering with acres of lighted windows ( dark in the black-out after 3.30 in the afternoon ) , and huge chimneys trailing and belching smoke endlessly into the curdled air , which loitered out over the spoiled valleys until , eventually , it was dispersed across the distant moors . |
| 3 | Soon the route arrives at Tennyson Down , one of the highlights of the route , and on to Alum Bay which looks out over the chalky points of the Needles . |
| 4 | There 's an ‘ honesty ’ bar where you get your drinks yourself , and observation lounge which looks out over the lovely sweep of Broadford Bay . |
| 5 | Most of the places he saw were uninhabitable , or required a permit from the Office of Works to make them less so , but a friend of John Hayward told him of some rooms in Carlyle Mansions , a Victorian apartment building along the Chelsea Embankment which looks out over the Thames . |
| 6 | Stepping back , Curtis waited till the racking coughing fit ended in a sudden gush of bright red blood , which spilled down over the dying killer 's slack lower jaw . |
| 7 | The double drones add an additional treble ring , which cuts through over the thicker , enveloping sound of the main bass strings . |
| 8 | He giggled girlishly , as if he were contemplating some impromptu lobotomies , and the beard , which flowed down over the steering wheel , rustled suggestively in the hollow socket of the speedometer . |
| 9 | Rosalind Ingrams performing the honours with Garsington 's latest bit of kit — a forty thousand pound specially designed canopy which opens out over the stage — protecting the performers . |
| 10 | The reaction to the raised premium has been comparable to the furore which broke out over the original introduction of buyer 's charges in London in 1975 . |
| 11 | If you desire more love in your life , throw a tiny heart into the chalice — and see the chalice become filled with tiny hearts , which pour out over the crystal column . |
| 12 | Secret talks with the government , which went on over a period of more than a year , were also broken off . |
| 13 | Along the wall opposite the bookcase was a bed and under the front window which looked out over the tiny arched lane and fields , was a small table with a photograph of a young dark-haired woman and a slightly older man with large penetrating eyes and a broad grin . |
| 14 | We eventually picked a hotel which looked out over the main square and settled down in the bar . |
| 15 | I used to , as my mother put it , ‘ curl up with a book ’ on a broad shelf which ran the length of one wall under shaky moorish windows which looked out over the golf course . |
| 16 | It took Quiss longer than he had expected to get to the castle kitchens ; they 'd changed some of the corridors and stairways en route from the games room to the lower levels , and Quiss , taking what he thought was the usual way , had found himself making an unexpected left turn and coming to a windy , deserted , echoing chamber which looked out over the white landscape to the tall wooden towers of the slate mines . |
| 17 | The privy was crude , a small recess in the wall with a latrine seat , just under a tiny , open , oval-shaped window which looked down over the green . |
| 18 | Fostered by illusion of paint , which spreads out over the surface . |
| 19 | Donald Wilson 's business , Ward and Son , of High Street , Aldeburgh , faces closure because trading standards officials say that his petrol pumps , which swing out over the pavement , are a hazard . |