Example sentences of "[noun] bend over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Holmes bent over the body and began to move it . |
| 2 | Ma bent over the stove . |
| 3 | Kathleen bent over the unconscious patient and sniffed . |
| 4 | Mairi was still shrieking and striking at Luch while Master Beaton bent over the bed . |
| 5 | Hawkins bent over the slave and examined the padlock . |
| 6 | The girls were now too close to their exam , too anxious to do more than lift their faces to him , but out of the tiredness and filth of lime he could be seen looking often at their heads bent over the lamplit pages in what looked close to melancholy and sunken reflection . |
| 7 | A servant arrived with some freshly made jus de citron and for the next half-hour the three of them remained with heads bent over the materials which would do so much to enhance Félix 's English collection . |
| 8 | He turned and saw Tock bent over the handle . |
| 9 | Each of the Moi carried a long-bladed machete which had been dubbed a coupe-code in Annam , and taking one from the nearest tribesman , the Senator bent over the dead buffalo . |
| 10 | I remember a case where an architect designer , without excuse bent over the shoulder of his employee , a brilliant 22-year-old designer , and put his name unashamedly to the novel ideas and design of the young man , claiming them for his own . |
| 11 | AS Stephen Hendry bent over the table to line up another shot there was more than victory at stake — he was literally taking his life in his hands . |
| 12 | Philip bent over the boy , looking down at him . |
| 13 | So I was racing through South London on my bike , nearly getting crushed several times by lorries , head bent over the dropped handlebars , swiftly running through the ten Campagnola gears , nipping through traffic , sometimes mounting the pavement , up one-way streets , breaking suddenly , accelerating by standing up on the pedals , exhilarated by thought and motion . |
| 14 | Kneeling , with my head bent over the lavatory , it was some time before I realised this sickness was not a thing I could throw up . |
| 15 | Ward opened up the paper to reveal two tiny clay figures interlocked , the woman with her head bent over the man 's huge phallic erection . |
| 16 | Her head bent over the exquisite gondola . |
| 17 | With my head bent over the sink I had plenty of time to work out my options . |
| 18 | Jack nodded , his head bent over the worst of the wrists , suturing the ugly slash . |
| 19 | He had pointed along the bank to where an elderly Arab was standing in the water bent over the gunwale of a small , crazily-built boat . |
| 20 | Dyson bent over the engine again . |
| 21 | Huy bent over the body silently . |
| 22 | Mrs Corney bent over the bed , and the dying woman opened her eyes . |
| 23 | A man in the long robe of a clerk or scribe bent over the injured baron . |
| 24 | Then Ariel bent over the drowsing Sycorax . |
| 25 | Mada Joyce and a neighbour bent over the cooking fire arguing over the best decoction of herbs for the girl 's condition . |