Example sentences of "like a [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , leaning on Fand to keep from falling , Ruth crept like a cripple over the glassy floor , between the towers . |
| 2 | Despite the quality of mind which had won him his first-class honours degree and led him to a study of modern philosophical and psychological theory , he rode like a conqueror over the rules of logic and morality . |
| 3 | It sails like a galleon over the wide , flat expanse of Holderness , its symmetry and many pinnacles lead the eye up to its perfectly proportioned spire which crowns the central tower ’ . |
| 4 | A mass of beautiful blonde hair spread like a wave over the pillow . |
| 5 | Yet as soon as this activity began in Vicky , a storm of weeping — as I judged the sensation — accumulated in my breast like a storm over the Alps . |
| 6 | It seemed to Carolyn that there must be a vividly speeded up life flitting through the infant 's dreams , as if it skimmed in the air like a bird over the facts of its life and they were reflected as changingly and as unknowingly on its face as the moving bird would be in seas , rivers , lakes , in stagnant puddles on flat roofs , and silted-up canals . |
| 7 | Especially spectacular was the veil scene where three spectral figures hang suspended above a billowing orange red cloth , held like a tent over the dancers . |
| 8 | The atmosphere of the flat valley hung like a drug over the dairy people , the cows and the trees . |
| 9 | Seemed all right at first , but came up like a balloon over the weekend . ’ |
| 10 | The light footfalls of their human destroyer faded into the night , and the silence of the brooding trees closed in like a shroud over the scene of his latest carnage . |
| 11 | Anna May buttoned her coat and scampered away , swarming like a monkey over the wall at the back of the alley and vanishing into the night . |
| 12 | The question of the ‘ Lanfranc forgeries ’ — that is , of the additions made to nine papal letters addressed to archbishops of Canterbury in order to provide clear papal authority for Canterbury 's primacy — hangs like a cloud over the primatial disputes of the years from 1072 to 1123 ; and it is important to seek such certainty as is to be obtained on this question . |
| 13 | Several of the planks , including those that had given way under Harry 's weight , had without that beam 's support simply been hanging out in space , resting like a seesaw over the previous beam but otherwise supported only by the tight fit of each plank against the next . |
| 14 | The Trapper once again moved like a shadow over the ground . |
| 15 | The way in which the Prioress 's Tale hangs like a shadow over the pilgrims is reflected by the continuation of the rhyme-royal verse form from the tale into the following link : a feature matched only once elsewhere in the Tales , by an apparently repressed stanza at the end of the Clerk 's Tale ( IV : 1212a — g ) . |
| 16 | He hoisted the rope to the very top of the hill , leaped into space with his bare feet wedged against the big knot and soared like an eagle over the tree tops . |
| 17 | Messages go out like an arrow over the wood ; |
| 18 | it 's like an archway over the trees yeah |