Example sentences of "[adv] and over [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was sung over and over during the parties . |
| 2 | Jack yelled as he and his assailant rolled over and over on the floor . |
| 3 | McDunn is staring at the floor and turning the gold B&H packet over and over on the table . |
| 4 | She wept and spoke at the same time — uttering fragments of sentences , half completed threats , pieces of swear words , repeating the name Richard over and over with the intonation of a child calling for its mother . |
| 5 | The sentence curled round in her head over and over like the whorls of her picture . |
| 6 | He was being turned over and over by the rush of water . |
| 7 | Instead of the great epic being told over and over by the bards and preachers of the word , we are offered by the critics snatches of data to be dissected , truncated , and — most scandalously of all — ‘ authenticated ’ . |
| 8 | The silver-plated frame winked at him as it turned over and over in the air . |
| 9 | Suddenly he threw himself down on the ground and rolled over and over in the dust . |
| 10 | That bar in the illustration , had to be lifted up and over at the end of each row to deposit the stitches on to the needles — a great opportunity to drop stitches , which I did most of the time ! |