Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He straightened up and gazed anxiously over the end of the bed at her . |
| 2 | Rather than watch them go , I stayed by the sink and gazed out over the playing fields . |
| 3 | Lady Ursula Berowne sat immobile in her sitting room on the fourth floor of 62 Campden Hill Square and gazed out over the top boughs of the plane trees as if at some far distant unseeable vista . |
| 4 | They did not immediately sit down , but leaned on the low parapet and gazed out over the river and the mountains , she with her head inclined towards his , he with a hand resting on her shoulder . |
| 5 | Turning her head , Polly sipped her coffee and gazed out over the expanse of water . |
| 6 | Lissa wandered over to the window and gazed out over the expanse of carefully tended shrubbery that bordered the car park . |
| 7 | ‘ So am I. ’ Heather turned again to the opening and gazed hard over the fields to where the spirals of smoke were rising behind the bushes . |
| 8 | Dawn Run took the lead from the start and hopped nimbly over the first two fences . |
| 9 | Then he jumped on to his black horse , and rode off over the moor with the hounds running and crying around him . |
| 10 | Humpbacks , sperms and rorquals formed the basis of an extensive antarctic whaling industry , which began in 1904 at a single whaling station on South Georgia and expanded enormously over the next three decades , making use of both shore stations and pelagic fleets . |
| 11 | After his death his empire could barely be sustained by the new rulers ( including Charles the Bald and Charles the Fat — is it possible to hold an empire together when the populace is taking the mickey out of you to that extent ? ) and crumbled away over a period of two centuries . |
| 12 | I cut off the path proper and charged up over a dune and down its other side to where the service pipe carrying the water and electricity to the house appears out of the sand and crosses the creek . |
| 13 | The costs will be in the region of £30,000 to £60,000 for full optical systems , but entry level systems for hypermedia , CD-ROM , WORM and videodisk technology can be obtained off-the-shelf at the moment , and built up over the next five to ten years . |
| 14 | The arm uncurled onto Richard 's chest and moved there over the nipples and down onto the tensing stomach . |
| 15 | Defries and Ace crawled up to a hollow , and peered cautiously over the lip . |
| 16 | The relative positions of the players changed and changed again over the second half and , as we waited on the eighteenth tee , Miguel had edged yet again one shot ahead of Jack . |
| 17 | What has changed , and changed radically over the period from the late 1960s to the early 1980s , has been the perception of that culture . |
| 18 | Bakhramov 's opinion that an extra-time shot by Geoff Hurst had hit the underside of the crossbar and bounced down over the goal-line prompted Swiss referee Gottfried Dienst to allow the goal which gave England a 3–2 lead . |
| 19 | Stamping their hopelessly outsize boots , they trudged in single file out of the gutted , white-stone church and slogged off over a ditch away from the barricade . |
| 20 | In addition the epicuticle may include a superficial lipid layer ( Lockey , 1960 ) covered by a protective cement layer of unknown composition ; the cement layer is secreted by epidermal glands and poured out over the surface . |
| 21 | Bank overdraft Flexible borrowing up to a certain ceiling for people with bank accounts , usually without security , and paid off over a few months , but can be extended over several years ; interest , calculated each day on how much the account is overdrawn that day , fluctuates in line with bank base rates ( usually about two per cent higher ) . |
| 22 | She stood up and clambered clumsily over the fallen rocks towards where Klift had been standing . |
| 23 | She forbade him to accompany her beyond the door and walked alone over the golden sand past the flower-beds to the gate . |
| 24 | On my perch , arms wrapped tightly round the shrouds , I was alternately laid back over the deck and thrust out over the water . |
| 25 | Geoffrey Wilkinson 's deputy was Peter Bardon who joined the RAF soon after the Second World War and served all over the world , particularly in the Far East . |
| 26 | Nails bit his tongue and slithered all over the place . |
| 27 | And yet she held her breath as she leaned out from the cover of the first-floor corridor , and hung cautiously over the oak rail . |
| 28 | The engine was built at Swindon in 1929 and worked all over the Great Western before withdrawal in 1964 . |
| 29 | Then he took his hands from the organ and looked all over the keyboard as if to make quite sure that all the keys and stops were there . |
| 30 | ‘ When we pulled out of Jaffa , I stood on the stern and looked out over the old city , ’ he said . |