Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than watch them go , I stayed by the sink and gazed out over the playing fields . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Turning her head , Polly sipped her coffee and gazed out over the expanse of water . |
| 5 | Lissa wandered over to the window and gazed out over the expanse of carefully tended shrubbery that bordered the car park . |
| 6 | ‘ Come and sit down over here . ’ |
| 7 | Take off your boots this moment , before I lose my temper , and sit down over there . |
| 8 | ‘ Come and sit down over here . ’ |
| 9 | Fibrous tissue replaces this , the capillaries heal and contract down over a period of months to leave a linear scar . |
| 10 | Then he jumped on to his black horse , and rode off over the moor with the hounds running and crying around him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A wind was gathering at the coast , preparing to sweep across the fields , lean against the few trees and race on over the road , across to the far side of the island . |
| 14 | He stands and looks out over the lights of London . |
| 15 | He spurred onward a good few yards before he turned and shouted back over his shoulder : ‘ You 're always welcome with the Puckeridge at least ! ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I ca n't imagine I would try and scramble up over rocks using my nose , but the use of hands in the mountaineering hierarchy seems to be of prime importance . |
| 18 | He is standing as he must have stood that afternoon on the shore of the Gulf of San Miguel , four-square and haughty , bucklered , helmeted , spurred , and looking out over the greatest ocean in the world . |
| 19 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ said Bernard , ‘ I too feel like going to a hotel somewhere and looking out over a blue Mediterranean sea . |
| 20 | This was a Greek theatre , hollowed out of the steep mountainside and looking out over one of the finest views in the world , with the sea far below on one side and , in the distance , Mount Etna . |
| 21 | A dolphin school will often divide up into subgroups while searching for food , which separate and spread out over a wide area of sea , still diving synchronously — evidence that they are probably in some form of acoustic contact . |
| 22 | The flood-water 'll just go right up there and spread out over the town . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Antony Yes Antony , come and stand up over here now . |
| 26 | The long flats , like the rounds , offer versatility : much colour can be loaded on the brush and drawn out over the painting surface , or shorter dabs can easily be applied and manipulated without the brush hairs giving way . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | I 've got two boxes at home , but I I mean its not brilliant , but they do the job for me could be worth cos he driving out there as well , would n't mind start get the old ferry ticket 's tomorrow and piss off over there , straight through France , |
| 29 | Good dogs now away and lie down over there , go and lie down lie down . |
| 30 | He got out of the planes coming , we , we was coming over from de Laborgie and you give him the needle and I had to lead him off the lead him off the plane , and going down over the chimneys in Chantilly to landu Laborgie he goes , woo ooh ooh , getting ready you know . |