Example sentences of "[verb] out over the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It remains to be seen whether the archaeologists will win out over the urban planners . |
| 2 | She looks out over the back gardens of John 's quiet neighbours . |
| 3 | Soon the route arrives at Tennyson Down , one of the highlights of the route , and on to Alum Bay which looks out over the chalky points of the Needles . |
| 4 | ‘ I think that is a just reward for the work which has been carried out over the two years following our restructure . |
| 5 | A persistent witchhunt was carried out over the proposed women candidates within the new Clinton administration , focusing on their childcare and domestic arrangements . |
| 6 | As well as causing widespread damage to the fixtures and fittings of Butlin 's Somerset World where they were based they spread out over the local towns and villages , generally hooting their way around , leaving considerable wreckage in their wake . |
| 7 | After dinner we would sit looking out over the three arms of the lake and talk until , drowsy with sun , swimming , food and wine , we went off to bed . |
| 8 | When our turn came , I could see the rifles and guns lying on the table and the long queue of lorries , leaving the land of oranges far behind and spreading out over the winding roads of Lebanon . |
| 9 | Overcome by emotion , she turned away , gazing out over the black waters of the reservoir . |
| 10 | Lady Ursula Berowne sat immobile in her sitting room on the fourth floor of 62 Campden Hill Square and gazed out over the top boughs of the plane trees as if at some far distant unseeable vista . |
| 11 | Rather than watch them go , I stayed by the sink and gazed out over the playing fields . |
| 12 | From the terrace of the house , grimed with soot and wind , one looked down into a grey , fogged landscape of endless slate-roofed ‘ back-to-backers ’ and soaring mills throbbing with trundling looms , glittering with acres of lighted windows ( dark in the black-out after 3.30 in the afternoon ) , and huge chimneys trailing and belching smoke endlessly into the curdled air , which loitered out over the spoiled valleys until , eventually , it was dispersed across the distant moors . |
| 13 | We stood on the top step , an icy wind driving any sleep from our eyes and faces , staring out over the snow-carpeted grounds . |
| 14 | Church bells rang out over the sunlit streets of Bristol and across the two rivers where a fine evening haze spread , blurring the edges of the buildings , disguising flaws in paint and plaster , softening the impact of rags , heightening the charm of sprigged muslin and chintz . |
| 15 | As young men , they managed to avoid falling out over the tendentious terms of their father 's will . |
| 16 | His mind stretched out over the deserted fields and the desolate dukes to the wide moon-bleached sands of the Wash and the creeping fringes of the North Sea . |
| 17 | Every brook coming down from the heights was swollen into a torrent , every valley river gulped these tributaries into its heart , and burst out over the narrow meadows into languid shallows , while in the centre it rushed ahead with treacherous force . |