Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb pp] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They all heard the noise of feet at once , and instinctively leaned over the battlements , craning to see . |
| 2 | On the contrary , the changing symbolic role of sexuality was a product of long and complex changes , and unevenly enforced over the population as a whole . |
| 3 | There is still uncertainty about the origins of the Lombards — frequently called the Longobards — but it is now generally agreed that they were central European , and probably arrived over the Alps from Hungary . |
| 4 | In classical ballet the patterns and groupings delineated by the dancers ' bodies are usually symmetrical and evenly balanced over the whole stage . |
| 5 | Start the engine and simply run over the blocks as if using a vacuum cleaner . |
| 6 | However , as soon as the crew saw the lifeboat they hurried along the deck with their suitcases and immediately scrambled over the side onto the lifeboat ! |
| 7 | The Irish Times reported : ‘ He regards the Ovens factory as an ideal guinea-pig situation in which the workers , protected by the best current standards , would be medically tested going into the plant and continuously tested over the next 20 years in order to measure the exposure risk and the effectiveness of the standards ’ . |
| 8 | And like sheep they had eventually been ridden down by soldiers as her husband had been ridden down at Peterloo , the crowd dispersed and then hunted over the open fields like running hares , so that of Luke 's companions one had crawled into a hedge with a leg that might have been mangled in a bear trap and had bled t death there ; two or three others had taken refuge in haystacks and barns ; two had been arrested and sentenced to hard labour . |
| 9 | Pioneering scholarship in the 1960s by Rudé and Rose suggested that food rioting first occurred in Oxfordshire in the closing years of the seventeenth century and then spread over the South and West and into the Midlands , but were uncommon in the northern counties . |
| 10 | A similar-sized length was laid on the lid and likewise folded over the edge and tacked into place . |
| 11 | Is it not ironic that the Government are introducing the Bill at a time when virtually all the political parties — parties which rarely find common ground , as we have tragically and sadly witnessed over the years — see eye to eye in opposing the scheme ? |
| 12 | It is right that our procedures should be subject to challenge and change , but her idea of turning a Government Advisory Unit into some kind of Oxford tutorial is an absurd perversion of everything that has been so slowly and painstakingly developed over the years . |
| 13 | Robert Grosvenor is one of those artists who give new meaning to the term ‘ raw material ’ , using as he has over the years wooden beams — stacked , splintered , split and variously arrayed over the floor . |