Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] over [coord] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That evening is I crouched at the back of the slit trench , swatting the mauses and listening to the sound of shells passing over and the rain dripping steadily in through the entrance to the trench , I stared at the pool of water getting larger and hoped that the rain would soon stop , if it does n't I 'm in for an uncomfortable night . |
| 2 | Here the guard changed over and the train headed back eastwards to the coast . |
| 3 | In the very severe winter of 1763 , the River Thames froze over and the scenes of that event are still depicted today on Christmas cards . |
| 4 | Midfielder Andy Parr took over and the part-timers lost 9–1 . |
| 5 | Oliver took over and the room sprang into focus . |
| 6 | Collimore good tackle by Hill a really effective challenge and Collimore and Hill having a real scrap as the ball comes over and the referee steps in and stern action might be required here by referee Kirby . |
| 7 | It is occasionally possible , just for brief moments , to find the words that will unlock the doors of all those many mansions inside the head and express something — perhaps not much , just something — of the crush of the information that presses in on us from the way a crow flies over and the way a man walks and the look of a street and from what we did one day a dozen years ago . |
| 8 | He was a mere dot on the horizon when the sky clouded over and the storm broke . |
| 9 | Then the clouds came over and the colours faded . |