Example sentences of "[v-ing] over the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The effects of these depletions on the global ozone budget and the possibility of similar massive ozone reductions occurring over the Arctic are of prime interest . |
| 32 | The sudden descent into abuse took McLeish by surprise and he realized he must have shown it , because the girl literally got a grip on herself , folding her arms and hunching over the table . |
| 33 | He looked up at me and grinned quickly before hunching over the controls again . |
| 34 | On the contrary , what is happening , and has been happening over the past ten years or so , raises very serious questions indeed . |
| 35 | The Scottish new towns constitute a microcosm of what is happening over the whole of Britain . |
| 36 | She should have been sharing breakfast with Kelly right now , laughing and chatting , catching up on all that had been happening over the past few months . |
| 37 | Does he agree that what they need is support and proper resources so that they can carry out their work , not what has been happening over the past 12 years — continual restructuring and reforms which do the service no good and break up the comprehensive national health service that we all know ? |
| 38 | Police tried to pull away refugees climbing over the embassy 's back fence last night , but they moved aside when the West German ambassador , Hermann Huber , appeared in the garden and said : ‘ Let them go ! ’ |
| 39 | On the other hand , when you see thousands climbing over the embassy railings as if the Devil were at their heels , you think you must be stupid to stay . ’ |
| 40 | Why had he not continued climbing over the gate , said good-night , and gone off down the hill ? |
| 41 | Climbing over the broken masonry , he stood uncertainly in the graveyard . |
| 42 | And he 'd escape the house by climbing over the back fence while they waited out the front all day . |
| 43 | I 'm still not keen on that side of it — it 's nice to be popular , it 's nice to be loved , but it 's not so nice to be chased round and to be on the front page of the paper every day of your life , with people climbing over the wall all day long . |
| 44 | One , Catherine Barton , absconded after supper by climbing over the wall and did not return until the next morning after 7 o'clock . |
| 45 | ( I had taken to climbing over the railings of the barracks each night , as the watchmen on the gate had been forbidden to let me in as I was known to be sleeping there . |
| 46 | A never-ending stream of people kept climbing over the sides and lowering themselves and their tremendous baggage into the sea of bodies . |
| 47 | She lowered the window by the leather tab and clicked the lip into the groove of the embrasure to hold it down so she could take some photographs ; several boys climbing over the fence on the railway banks hooted at the sight of her camera and posed , arms akimbo , pretence starlets . |
| 48 | Without thinking about it she was climbing over the wall . |
| 49 | I wish it was yesterday , I wish I was just climbing over the rocks in dear comfortable Mrs McPhee who does n't mind getting wet and lets me breathe — ’ |
| 50 | And having someone just climbing over the stile is a good idea with the signpost pointing . |
| 51 | And er yo you get the impression that it 's late in the day , the sky 's a bit stormy and maybe it 's time to be thinking about er getting home and er I get the impression that that person climbing over the stile is sort of on his way home after having a super day out walking in the the Yorkshire Dales or somewhere like that . |
| 52 | The Mason climbed the spokes of the cart wheel , grunted with the exertion of climbing over the rim of the stage , and rose to his feet where the golden pavilion hid him from Gabriel 's view . |
| 53 | ‘ And then we have an old lady , more or less an invalid so she never goes out , who thinks she saw someone climbing over the garden fence one night . |
| 54 | I ca n't see you 'll have to pick it up and show me I 'm not climbing over the chair to look show me . |
| 55 | rainbow climbing high , everyone can see it climbing over the sky , rainbow , here 's a rainbow yeah today poor |
| 56 | Sometimes it is by praying over the sick person . |
| 57 | On January 24 , Francois Guillani , de Cuellar 's official spokesperson , fanned speculation within UN headquarters that de Cuellar was under intense pressure to resign , by announcing over the public address system that ‘ It is untrue that the Secretary General is considering stepping down ’ . |
| 58 | We lean over the balcony , marvelling over the way this industrial city , drab and dour by day , transforms itself at night . |
| 59 | After grappling over the course of the novel with his essential nature and that of those around him , he finally renounces his quest for a fixed meaning , a completed story : |
| 60 | Please stop wailing over the dead Pam and concentrate on turning past atrocities into subjects of education and development , not by denying them , but promoting them in ways which will continually enlighten and in many ways , benefit today 's society . |