Example sentences of "over a cliff " in BNC.
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| 1 | James Palmer , who bungled an attempt to push his neighbour over a cliff in Exmouth , Devon , was jailed yesterday by Bristol Crown Court for 10 years . |
| 2 | ‘ My own father , ’ Francis continued , ‘ failed in business and drove himself over a cliff in full view of us all , five years ago . |
| 3 | Their symbolic action was swiftly curtailed when the occupants were given ten minutes to leave and , despite their bravest efforts , watched the waiting bulldozers push the building over a cliff into the sea . |
| 4 | One whose mowing and threshing of a corn crop was criticised threw the whole harvest over a cliff , saying : |
| 5 | Virginia 's doctor , a self-important little man , had a patient once who lost her memory after the shock of seeing her husband fall to his death over a cliff . |
| 6 | Then I pushed my car over a cliff and burned it . |
| 7 | It was true , it had the feel of truth : the woman had n't just fallen over a cliff . |
| 8 | ‘ The coastguard was constantly getting calls from ships concerned about this car over a cliff edge and someone dangling from it , ’ recalled Stuart Fell . |
| 9 | That this can give rise to erroneous inferences with potentially disastrous consequences is shown when Lok nearly falls to his death over a cliff because he smells smoke . |
| 10 | A court has been told that the idea for an elaborate murder plot , in which a couple were pushed over a cliff in a blazing car , may have come from a film on satellite television . |
| 11 | An alleged hitman accused of pushing a young couple over a cliff in a burning car has claimed he was at home smoking drugs at the time . |
| 12 | They 'd conspired , with a hired hitman , to push the couple 's burning car over a cliff at Barrow Wake near Gloucester . |
| 13 | Tied up and robbed , before they were shot and thrown over a cliff . |
| 14 | So they drive over a cliff and it finishes . |