Example sentences of "and [adv] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since last year 's season of tests , one cyclone , Reva , has swept right across the atoll and on over the nearby Gambier islands . |
| 2 | It was moving very fast , and noiselessly over the snowy road . |
| 3 | Andy licked his fingers and started to stroke them up and down over the purple bulge of his cock . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It should be out of hand and all over the bloody media by now . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've got more snow up here and all over the Swiss Alps than we have had in 50 years , ’ said Dr Othmar Buser , whose research centre is perched at 2,660m on the Weissfluhjoch above Davos . |
| 7 | This pattern of life was being copied in Britain and all over the motorized world with greater or less fidelity . |
| 8 | The relationship between the judiciary and the Government has been changed by developments over the last twenty years and especially over the last five years or so . |
| 9 | Interethnic relations , Gorbachev conceded in his speech to the 28th Party Congress in July 1990 , had deteriorated since the congress before it , and especially over the previous few months . |
| 10 | Over them all , and especially over the little pupil Sophy , broods the ghost of the brilliant and beautiful Violet , Sophy 's mother . |
| 11 | How have patterns of support between members of the same kin group changed in Britain over time , and especially over the past two centuries ? |
| 12 | But there will be three trains a week instead of 14 , all going by the less attractive and evocative northern route and not over the historic line of the Canadian Pacific Railway . |
| 13 | However , given the developments both in the United Kingdom and elsewhere over the last few years , it is now unlikely that this course will be taken . |
| 14 | That misconception had continued on and off over the following six or seven years . |
| 15 | USL chairman , AT&T executive Bob Kavner , says he talked with Ray Noorda on and off over the last year about acquiring USL . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And all the time I was talking I rolled my swabs back and forth over the frozen Thames . |
| 18 | Donna took a step closer , her gaze travelling back and forth over the gilt-framed painting . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | As the plants moved in the breeze , the sunlight dappled and speckled back and forth over the brown soil , the white pebbles and weeds . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | More and more over the last few years , however , findings both from his own lab and others have tended to enrich the somewhat simplistic reductionist framework within which the Aplysia findings had earlier been set . |
| 23 | Thirdly , our policy analysis and research team , takes responsibility for looking further ahead , and doing a lot of the initial thinking about both the challenges and the opportunities that will affect the sector domestically and internationally over the next few years . |
| 24 | Again , his fingers teased her , running a path of torturing heat about her thigh , and up over the jutting bone of her hip , close — far too close ! — to that part of her where the aching need had its centre . |
| 25 | He wanted Siward 's army over the centre , and also over the bright , narrow vein of the deepest of the many rivulets that seamed the field , running down to the Forth . |
| 26 | With hindsight , I know I should have seen the warning signals in the man himself , which I missed through inexperience , but the result was that a cloud of depression , a sense of failure , settled over me , and also over the whole team . |
| 27 | Sir Patrick was also closely involved in differences between London and Dublin over extradition and clashed with the Irish government over the validity of warrants in several cases and notably over the Irish refusal in 1989 to hand over Mr Patrick Ryan , who is wanted in Britain for alleged involvement with IRA bombings . |
| 28 | In these circumstances , it is convenient for corporate officials to pull the cloak of honest ignorance over their heads and proceed under its darkness to stumble blindly and unwittingly over the thin line between what is condoned and what is condemned . |
| 29 | They are well preserved and maintained and the rampart walks are accessible , giving interesting views into the town and out over the surrounding countryside . |
| 30 | The brothers were literally run out of town and back over the English border . |