Example sentences of "slowly over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Driving very slowly over the narrow bridges spanning the fast flowing streams which stemmed from the River Ouse , he noticed that a massive flock of coots had flown in while he had been away . |
| 2 | One day , with me clinging to you — what rapture ! — on the pillion , we made a trip to Zamora , a small medieval city to the north of Salamanca. ft was one of those heavenly , crisp autumn days , all sunny chills and skies of broken clouds whose grotesque shadows went moving slowly over the bare brown earth of the fields and hills . |
| 3 | I do n't think he should really be telling me all this , but he is demob happy and there is something of the anonymity of the confessional in this dimly lit train compartment , lurching slowly over the snowy plateau of the Kola Peninsula . |
| 4 | A mist drifted over the marsh as the moon rose slowly over the tower above . |
| 5 | Endill peered slowly over the edge of it . |
| 6 | I suppose it built up slowly over the years … ’ |
| 7 | The new oceanic crust welds to the edges of two plates ( huge pieces of crust that move slowly over the mantle beneath ) . |
| 8 | At the meeting , it was decided that County , the underwriters Dillon Read and Phillips & Drew would take some of the remaining shares and then sell them slowly over the next few weeks , a move which had been discussed with County 's lawyers beforehand . |
| 9 | As he spoke a dark pool of blood began to gather under the luxuriant mane of Harriet 's auburn hair which had escaped from the loosened snood and spread slowly over the ground . |
| 10 | The resulting scene was bizarre , as ninety skinheads moved slowly over the stones , heads down like rooting chickens , with the occasional flurry of movement as somebody found a Marlboro butt . |
| 11 | The continents were not stationary , but drifted slowly over the earth 's surface , driven by the convection currents moving deep in the earth 's mantle . |
| 12 | Now the pillars of flesh between them were stiffened with bony rods and the first pair of these bones , slowly over the millennia , gradually hinged forward . |
| 13 | Making sure to appear casual , he carefully watched the men in dinner jackets and the women in full-length décolleté dresses move slowly over the red carpet towards the restaurant at the rear , or climb the staircase to the gaming rooms . |
| 14 | Whilst the earliest phase lasted only a few minutes after the training trial , and the intermediate ones declined within the hour , long-term memory seemed to build up slowly over the first hour after training , and protein synthesis inhibitors would no longer disrupt it if they were administered more than an hour after the training ( Figure 10.1 ) |
| 15 | I 've gathered them slowly over the years , because they 're cruelly expensive . |
| 16 | We consider that investment in quality is as important as improving the working environment , which we 've obviously been er doing slowly over the last three years . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Her fingers moved slowly over the paperweight . |
| 19 | President Mary Robinson of the Irish Republic , who visited Somalia on Oct. 3 and 4 , said at an emotional press conference in Nairobi on Oct. 5 that the UN and the European Communities were " offending justice " by acting slowly over the Somali crisis . |
| 20 | But i it grew slowly over the weeks and I think Christmas was an example of just the actual logistics of what we did at Christmas must be something of a feat in that so much stuff came in from the volume of presents and then the way in which they could be distributed . |
| 21 | He took up a cloth by the side of the cash register and started to move it slowly over the surface , looking up just once as I left the shop , saying , ‘ Goodbye , then . ’ |
| 22 | The train starts , and thunders slowly over the bridge across the river . |
| 23 | Her body arched pleadingly beneath him as she reached up , trailing her lips slowly over the now moist , tanned skin of his powerful chest , with its covering of rough dark hair tapering to a point on his flat stomach . |
| 24 | She ran her fingers slowly over the stubbly , woven texture of a wall-hanging , part woven , part collage . |
| 25 | Her gaze moved slowly over the dazzling white decks , and into the dark well of the cabin . |
| 26 | They widened still further as his eyes ran slowly over the visible curves of her body . |
| 27 | Levels of nitrates in tap water had been rising slowly over the past decade , most of it leaching into groundwater from farmers fields , where it 's used as a fertilizer . |
| 28 | It 'll we have to run it down slowly over the course of the year . |