Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would n't have dared to be late , ’ she flung back over her shoulder , hoping he recognised the sarcasm in her tone . |
| 2 | She gazed out over the flat , dark countryside as the lights of Ghent were left behind . |
| 3 | As she bent down over the fire , her nose-ring and the silver coins of her necklace glinted fiercely . |
| 4 | She peered awkwardly over her shoulder at a very bland-looking Leo and snorted in exasperation . |
| 5 | She peered furtively over her left shoulder , but no-one else was in the small seminar room . |
| 6 | As Annie adjusted the nappies under the wriggling body , she glossed back over the previous week . |
| 7 | She described how over the next 24 hours her mother 's mood swung from the depths of depression to coping well . |
| 8 | She wandered all over the stave and produced a curious counterpoint to the tune . |
| 9 | Serve him right if she sneezed all over him . |
| 10 | ‘ You wait here , ’ she threw back over her shoulder . |
| 11 | ‘ He found the corpse , ’ she replied archly over her shoulder , ‘ a few hours ’ journey from the convent . ’ |
| 12 | She cut in over his words . |
| 13 | Again she cut in over his words . |
| 14 | She walked quickly over the uneven ground . |
| 15 | She saw sacks of meal and gleaming dates , boxes of over-ripe figs with the seeds oozing out , and she stepped carefully over a stream of something unthinkable that ran down the centre of the street . |
| 16 | But when he told his aunt what he had seen , she grinned all over her broad features . |
| 17 | She glanced nervously over her shoulder and pursed up her mouth . |
| 18 | Still feeling more than a little unbalanced , she glanced back over her shoulder . |
| 19 | Drawing the car to a halt by a grass verge , she slumped dejectedly over the wheel , resting her head on her hands . |
| 20 | And that , of course , she decided ruefully over a cup of coffee at the kitchen breakfast-bar , would have played right into his hands , seeming to justify his opinion of her . |
| 21 | When on 24 August 1921 she broke up over the Humber on a final exercise in sharp turns , Maitland , on board but not in command , died with forty-two others . |
| 22 | ‘ Adam 's a fascinating person , of course , ’ she stumbled inelegantly over the words , ‘ but I 'm not in love with him . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Exposed beams , ’ she called excitedly over her shoulder . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll pack my things and go first thing in the morning , ’ she called back over her shoulder , her voice like razor blades . |
| 25 | She laughed all over the place at this . |
| 26 | ‘ What does it take to convince you ? ’ she demanded sharply over rising despair , wondering why she was even bothering to try now that their affair was in its death throes . |
| 27 | But her best-known theatre role in the city has to be as Shirley Valentine , the acclaimed Willy Russell play that she took all over the country four years ago . |
| 28 | Lying in bed , she thought back over the conversation , blaming herself for having interfered in such a private matter . |
| 29 | Standing at the window that looked over the grounds , she thought back over her short stay here in the house , tried to see how it might have been different — and then gave a wry , sad little smile . |
| 30 | She stared out over the sea . |