Example sentences of "[noun] fly over the " in BNC.

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1 Tatton Park director Mike Beaufoy said : ‘ Income comes to the estate from visitor admissions , open air events , concerts and filming in the open air these are all affected by aircraft flying over the estate .
2 Waves flew over the car .
3 Quickly they spread it out , and it became a sail ; the boat flew over the waves , faster than the sea-people could follow .
4 As soon as Ben Gunn saw the English flag flying over the house , he said , ‘ There are your friends . ’
5 Having made up his mind to talk , he spoke rapidly and fluently and Pascoe 's pen flew over the paper as he took shorthand notes .
6 Mildred flew over the gates and landed expertly on the other side .
7 In Brussels yesterday NATO sources said the alliance had completed plans to enforce a no-fly zone over Bosnia , with the United Nations expected to approve the use of allied fighters this week to shoot down Serb or other planes flying over the republic .
8 From a Neil Pink corner , the ball was cleared to outside the penalty area , where a strong shot from Minto flew over the defence into the net .
9 The AC-130 Spectre gunship flew over the capital several times and blasted arms depots and ammunition stores with 105mm cannon fire and rockets .
10 After about two hours flying over the sea , they swung in over the coast and were given a welcoming burst of anti-aircraft fire .
11 This was a vehicle with all mod cons at the rear of the bus , which I had followed many times and checked on its progress flying over the route ; oddly enough , on my last night in Mespot I was to sleep in the Imperial Airways rest fort at Rutbah Wells , I had refuelled there many times and had wondered with awe at the vast ugly route-flying Imperial aircraft — Handley Page HP42s — and even more so at the passengers who took an even greater interest in our tiny single-engined Wapiti aircraft , and furthermore asked endless questions about our aircraft and of our life in Baghdad .
12 She recalled no aeroplanes flying over the heath .
13 As the ball flew over the front edge , I was screaming inside , ‘ Come down , come down ; oh , God ! ’
14 As the ball flew over the front edge , I was screaming inside , ‘ Come down , come down ; oh God ! ’
15 There was a nasty moment before the ball flew over the three bunkers that block the fairway .
16 He fired his shot hard and low but somehow Norman got his legs in the way and the ball flew over the bar into the sea of incredulous Middlesbrough supporters behind the Roker goal .
17 Terhune 's fingers flew over the keyboard , pulling a close-range weapons menu out of the memory .
18 His fingers flew over the keys .
19 And as a mark of their respect for their aviator comrade , a lone bugler played The Last Post and Reveille before an RAF Hercules flew over the graveside at Frankby Cemetery in a special salute to the man who had given the last six years of his life to his country .
20 A LONE Spitfire flew over the RAF 's most famous base yesterday in a final salute to The Few .
21 A Union Jack flew over the exact spot and George Jeffery , of Bury St Edmunds , laid a poppy wreath on behalf of the squadron .
22 It conjures up images of the old Nimble bread adverts with the girl in the balloon , or the bit in The Snowman where the kid flies over the coast .
23 He says there were bullets flying over the fence .
24 Disco , on the other hand , was intended to study the Sun from the Earth 's vicinity and provide a sideways-on look at our local star while the International Solar Polar Mission craft flew over the top .
25 Azhag flew over the battlefield on his wyvern , swooping upon regiment after regiment and harrying the retreating army as it made its way to the refuge of Wolfenburg .
26 The actions of the USSR must be seen in the context of a dramatic change in the international situation , caused by the shooting down on 1 May of a US U2 spy plane flying over the heart of continental Russia .
27 His hands flew over the piano keys .
28 Rangers responded with John Morrow and Trevor Steven linking up to set up a shooting chance for Gary Stevens but the fullback 's 20 yard effort flew over the top .
29 The information flew over the Normandy beaches and as they approached the town of Caen , a wing ahead of them ran into heavy flak .
30 In slow-flapping flight a bird flew over the tree tops .
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