Example sentences of "she [verb] over the " in BNC.

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1 She lisped over the telephone , ’ Congratulations , daddy , on being elected to the national executing committee of the Labour party ’ .
2 As I clambered into the boat , moored near her big yacht , Lucy took the bottles of beer and Coca-Cola and put them into an open net bag which she lowered over the side , tying the net with a long rope to a hook on the gunwale .
3 When she got over the stroke she fell and broke her hand .
4 ‘ What ? ’ she asked over the top of hers .
5 She hopped over the next puddle , then the next .
6 This she draped over the line , pinning it with a row of clothes pegs .
7 She passed over the trays of sapphires , of rubies , of diamonds ; she chose an emerald .
8 Then , as she bent over the stove , heating milk , she said casually , ‘ So , what was Doyle telling you , then ? ’
9 She let out her pent-up breath in a loud gasp of relief ; then she bent over the handlebars and sent the bike whizzing as fast as she could pedal it across the remaining hundred yards or so of field .
10 She bent over the bed and thought at first that she was too late .
11 She felt suddenly irritable as she bent over the cot and lifted the child to her breast .
12 He watched the material of her shell suit strain to the limit as she bent over the coffee table and picked up the tray of cups and saucers .
13 She bent over the pattern , her strong fingers guiding her scissors .
14 As she bent over the intercom the little skirt went peek-a-boo and you could see white pants cupping her buttocks like a bra .
15 She bent over the bed .
16 In the far corner of the churchyard , a woman was tending a grave ; she bent over the stone urn to arrange fresh flowers , then stood quietly with bowed head and folded hands .
17 Margery 's face was hidden by her hair as she bent over the stove .
18 ‘ Wo , Prentice ! ’ she shouted over the noise .
19 She peered over the edge of the bedstead and saw a cliff of bedcover stretching endlessly to the stone floor .
20 She peered over the bag of groceries clasped to her bosom and was almost consumed by envy .
21 Sitting up , she peered over the edge of the hollow alongside Seb .
22 But for now she lives over the border in the Dominican Republic .
23 A young kangaroo would stand little chance of staying on board its mother as she bounded over the land if all it had to cling to was a nipple .
24 With minimum sound she moved over the carpet towards it .
25 She presided over the present-opening like an officious timekeeper .
26 my credulity when she wandered over the Moors and she was at death 's door , and she turned up at her cousins '
27 She likes to cover up the truth like she covers over the naked light .
28 She sailed over the sands and the rocks and out towards the sea , me running , exhilarated , underneath , watching the stuck winch bob under her kicking feet .
29 Amused by her burgeoning vanity , she dawdled over the unpacking to give Mrs Wallington plenty of unencumbered time with her son .
30 She clambered over the edge of the dish , rolled together another lumpy ball of squishy food , climbed back out of the dish , rolled the ball across the garden and under the gate , scurried across the footpath to the riverbank , pushed the ball of dog food down the bank and into the drink .
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