Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb infin] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | She let her mind run over the events of yesterday . |
| 2 | It was a longish walk on a warm evening so he took it slowly , letting his mind roam over the case as he walked . |
| 3 | He let his mind play over the man as he had felt him at their meeting , as he now knew him from his books : vain , opinionated , hearty , joky . |
| 4 | It was a stunning sight , and as I lay idly in the boulders that are reputed to have fallen 1600 metres and half a mile from the South Face of La Meije to the Chatelleret , I thought of the climb to come and let the daylight drift over me . |
| 5 | George let his mind wander over the House . |
| 6 | Isambard let his weight lie over him and held him down , and deliberately lifted the boy 's right arm and dashed his elbow hard against the paving . |
| 7 | He framed her face in his hands and let his gaze pour over her . |
| 8 | I said I saw the boy come over the |
| 9 | In the semi-darkness she studied his profile , letting her gaze wander over the hard-boned features , absorbing the line of his jaw , wondering what was going on inside his head . |
| 10 | He was watching her , letting his gaze travel over her , apparently enjoying this provocative exchange and the fact that he had brought a faint blush to her cheeks . |
| 11 | Lazily , she stretched and smiled , letting her somnolent gaze drift over the procession of reeds and gnarled trees that dipped their branches low into the water . |
| 12 | Lazily , making her skin jump , he let his dark gaze drift over her . |
| 13 | An amused smile touched Guido 's eyes as he let his gaze flicker over the rumpled high-necked cotton pyjamas she was wearing . |
| 14 | He watched the sun rise over the snowy fields , and on his way home he met the postman , who handed him a letter . |
| 15 | I fucking let milk boil over the other night and I ca n't get it off . |
| 16 | Kalchu , wearing only his loincloth. let the rain course over his bare skin . |
| 17 | Let the eye move over it . |
| 18 | Turning the board around by steering away from the wind and letting the sail pass over the front of the board . |
| 19 | If you let your eye rove over the map , it is pretty obvious that one of the new towns should be near the Channel Tunnel and another near the new Stansted Airport . |
| 20 | The battledress trousers were inclined to go baggy and the uniform jacket was a bit severe , so whenever we could get away with it we wore the other two items , and tended to let our hair float over our collars — also banned . |
| 21 | Hari felt a chill fall over her . |
| 22 | You dip it in with the leading edge let the water pour over it , then drain it off . |
| 23 | Turning on the shower , I let the water run over me . |
| 24 | George , returning to the house rather earlier than he might have expected , put his head under the cold tap and let the delicious water course over him . |
| 25 | He let a neighbourly grin slide over his foxy face . |
| 26 | She let the rebuke slide over her . |
| 27 | He let the opening float over him : undulating strings , like someone stirring from sleep , which rose to one crashing climax , followed by another . |
| 28 | And then there was the greatest ace of them all , Otto Kretschmer , whose record of having sunk a quarter of a million tons of Allied shipping was never beaten , Kretschmer who had perfected the night tactics , taught him by Dönitz , of letting a convoy pass over him , surfacing between the lines , loosing off torpedoes at ships either side of him , then diving again to get clear . |
| 29 | Hoomey slithered , abandoning hope , and felt the water close over him like death , and opened his mouth to scream , and started to drown . |
| 30 | ‘ A year , ’ Lisa insisted , feeling the water close over her . |