Example sentences of "stretched [adv prt] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brambles of the garden had forced their way through one pane , and stretched in over the ledge , curling upwards like long scrawny fingers . |
| 2 | Bravely , she stretched out over the gap to the next stone . |
| 3 | He felt the air in his wings as he stretched out over the sky ; he felt his strength . |
| 4 | His mind stretched out over the deserted fields and the desolate dukes to the wide moon-bleached sands of the Wash and the creeping fringes of the North Sea . |
| 5 | He took in the way the little boy 's hands stretched out over the crowd of distressed men as if to soothe them , and , for the first time in his life , he felt something that was not quite fear and not quite joy — an emptiness that longed to be filled . |