Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alison Walker lay pale-faced and tearful , one hand instinctively resting over her swollen abdomen as if to protect the child within . |
| 2 | He gave the impression that he was constantly looking over his shoulder at his executive which contained some hard and prickly characters . |
| 3 | We used the same old path , and I was amazed to realise that without knowing it I had been hurrying my children along and constantly looking over my shoulder . |
| 4 | ‘ No matter where you go , when you are shopping or socialising , you are constantly looking over your shoulder . |
| 5 | In LA at least you can take basic precautions , like constantly looking over your shoulder and locking your car up . ’ |
| 6 | Andy is filling the single champagne glass at the apex of the pyramid with champagne ; it is overflowing , filling the three glasses beneath it ; they in turn are overflowing , filling the glasses on the level beneath them , which are also full and so spilling over to the level underneath , and so on and so on down almost to the bottom ; Andy is on his eighth magnum . |
| 7 | Medeva 's OTC products were only turning over £4–4.5m including exports , so they were not viable in this cut throat business . |
| 8 | " But he 's only going over for our sakes — so we can make contact . " |
| 9 | However , it has to be recognised both in collecting unemployment data and in interpreting the figures that the unemployment pool is constantly turning over . |
| 10 | Gould 's wife had spent the months that he was away over Christmas and New Year patiently labouring over her sketchbooks and specimens , and had a stack of botanical and ornithological drawings to present him with when he returned . |
| 11 | ‘ I never for one moment suspected that you were , ’ he murmured , his eyes suddenly running over her figure . |
| 12 | At one point , I had the head of the local NCT , my midwife , my health visitor and my GP all coming over regularly . |
| 13 | He is merely stopping over en route from the Republic to Italy , where he plays rugby for Rovigo . |
| 14 | The breed was merely ticking over , a curiosity in the hands of a dedicated few . |
| 15 | The machines were only ticking over . |
| 16 | I ca n't think why you want to swap the ’ and S keys but you can make any key produce any symbol you like and so swapping over is just a special case . |
| 17 | Semiconductor industry top ten tables show the Japanese industry apparently taking over leadership from the USA around 1985 . |
| 18 | Many of those trainees go to smaller firms , perhaps taking over positions of responsibility or even taking over from the owners when they die and thus continuing the industry 's good work . |
| 19 | She did not like the smile of relish that was suddenly creeping over his features . |
| 20 | Idly flicking over , there were riots outside a Brooklyn court as a black youth was acquitted of the murder in New York of an Hassidic Jew . |
| 21 | Many pressure groups set themselves the task of sedulously winning over influential opinion to their view of the future . |
| 22 | Claire now conscious of rogue hairstyle , lopsidedly dangling over left eye . |
| 23 | Each truck has to carry 26 of them , together weighing over a ton . |
| 24 | The nurse was still hovering about the bed , patting the pillow , tucking in blankets and generally fussing over her patient . |
| 25 | We stumbled along a very rough track on the glacier moraine and were soon stepping over or round a dismal line of skulls and bones , bleached pure white by the elements . |
| 26 | Big stars and a Father Christmas and reindeer and it 's all so bright just hanging over my head and stretching all down the road like a tunnel of hot colour all hanging in the sky so beautiful and magic . |
| 27 | By the time the men put their " memorial " to the employers in November 1909 , the situation was acute : " Not only has hand composition been lately going over more and more to female labour , but the operating on the type-composing machines has also been practically monopolised by the same class of cheap labour , to the consequent injury of our members . " |
| 28 | The engines were already turning over . |
| 29 | The British colony , already fretting over whether China will give its nod to an expensive new airport in the territory , can ill afford the economic blow of a change in China 's status . |
| 30 | We 're just going over something again for the exam . ’ |