Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb past] [pers pn] over the " in BNC.
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1 | There was a rustle beside her as Gladys removed a shapeless cardigan and hung it over the back of the adjoining chair . |
2 | He let in the estate agent and took him over the house , into the drawing room and the dining room , upstairs to the Pincushion Room , the Centaur Room , the Room of Astonishment , the Deathbed Room , the Room Without a Name , and then back down the back stairs to that jumble of kitchens and scullery and washhouse and coal-store , most of it a nineteenth century addition . |
3 | Lee took hold of the bike and pulled it over the fence . |
4 | I know my father would raise a terrific stink if I told him the Headmistress had grabbed me by the hair and slung me over the playground fence . ’ |
5 | The pimp took the strip and placed it over the other girl 's mouth . |
6 | Tolkien too might think of the Norse legend of the ‘ Undying Lands ’ , the Odáinsakr : when King Hadding reached its boundary the witch who guided him killed a cock and threw it over the wall — a moment later he heard the cock crow before he himself had to turn away and go back to mortality . |
7 | He watched in horrified fascination as the lieutenant took out a single match and poised it over the striking strip . |
8 | He fetched water and splashed it over the twitching boy . |
9 | He took off his jacket and slung it over the back of the seat , feeling the sun warm on his neck . |
10 | Finally he wandered through into the kitchen , pulled off his jacket and draped it over the back of a chair . |
11 | In the heat of the kitchen she had removed her costume jacket and hung it over the back of a nearby chair . |
12 | She removed her jacket and hung it over the hook on the kitchen door , and did the same with her hat , then warily walked into the living-room . |
13 | In 1223 Richard was once again in the retinue of William Marshal and followed him over the next few years into Wales , Ireland , and Brittany . |
14 | Alexander sipped his drink and watched her over the rim of his glass as he continued . |
15 | I ran it behind each radiator and draped it over the pair of mounting brackets on each radiator . |
16 | ‘ It took all the stacks up — tons and tons — and simply took 'em up like that off the ground and scattered them over the fields . |
17 | Her husband lowered his paper and regarded her over the top of it . |
18 | Without a word , shamefaced , Norman took them out of his pocket and slid them over the table . |
19 | After what seemed like a good twenty minutes of this he took a handful of rice from a gourd at his belt and scattered it over the waters . |
20 | He switched out the light , but the darkness made his skin crawl so he switched it back on , then took Sophie 's sweater from the floor and draped it over the lampshade . |
21 | By ten-thirty , Beth had cleared away the breakfast things , washed the dishes and stacked them into the big dresser , wiped down the kitchen table , taken the coconut matting from the floor and hung it over the line outside where she beat every speck of dust from it before replacing it over her freshly scrubbed quarry tiles ; all that done she was now enjoying a cup of tea , before setting about the drawing room . |
22 | As quick as a flash , Mildred pulled out a lasso of rope which she had hidden in a drawer and slipped it over the astonished girl 's head and shoulders , yanking it tightly enough to bind her arms to her sides . |
23 | She took a pinch of snuff in her hand and sprinkled it over the note murmuring something under her breath . |
24 | She sipped her coffee and watched him over the rim of the cup . |
25 | Take the weaving yarn and lay it over the alternate needles but wrap it two or three times round the blocks of three selected needles . |