Example sentences of "way [adv] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed . |
| 2 | The conversations of the ‘ Lunatics ’ , as they were called , would often carry on as they took advantage of the moonlight to find their sometimes uncertain way home over the ruts and rubbish in their path . |
| 3 | He had not got out immediately , but sat and watched the broad Welshman and his wife pick their way carefully over the already frosted surface towards the club-house . |
| 4 | They picked their way carefully over the leads of numerous labradors , terriers and springers anchored with more or less acquiescence , to bits of their owners ' persons . |
| 5 | Isabel picked her way carefully over the rough bank , the cramped muscles in her legs protesting at the exercise , and took the reins . |
| 6 | Although the moon was riding high in the sky , and shedding a rather weird , eerie glow on the flowering shrubs and various trees edging the green lawn , she was surprised at how much more calm and at ease she felt in the soft , enveloping darkness as she picked her way carefully over the sand . |
| 7 | On the way back over the lines west we saw a lot of traffic with trains going to Oxford , coal to Didcot power station , 125 's to the West Country and three class 37 's up and down with nowhere to go . |
| 8 | He wound his way back over the leaf-strewn grass like a toy duck . |
| 9 | The Rising Star and Half Moon began to shine as I wended my way back over the Skerne Bridge . |
| 10 | By continuing on the diet plan the indiscretion will work its way out over the next day or two . |
| 11 | And when , five minutes later , they made their way cautiously over the humpy grass into the heart of the ruins there was no one and nothing to be seen . |
| 12 | So she was surprised , and vaguely annoyed , to see Sandra Bamfield picking her way cautiously over the large rocks that had to be scaled to get to the privacy of this particular beach . |
| 13 | This feature encourages water that finds its way aboard over the weatherside to slip round behind the after coaming and exit over the lee quarter . |