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 . |