Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv prt] over the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time she saw pebbles laid out over the whole of the surface , more or less evenly spaced . |
| 2 | His readiness to speak on almost any topic , and especially on medical ethics , was remarkable : his speeches averaged out over the pontificate at almost one a day . |
| 3 | These are piers built out over the harbour , and indicate old merchants ' houses , where ships could unload directly into the premises . |
| 4 | Police Court trials usually included a miscellaneous collection of well-known ne'er-do-wells picked up over the weekend and arraigned on Monday morning to face drunk and disorderly charges . |
| 5 | Staring through the streaming window , Nell gritted her teeth every time the bows pushed out over the top of a big wave , only to hang in space before dropping away into the sixty-odd feet of the following trough that seemed to her a mile deep . |
| 6 | On these mornings her freckled face was blanched , and she sat motionless at the breakfast table , staring sightlessly into a cup of cold , wrinkle-skinned coffee , while her long red hair gradually slithered out of the nest of twists she had knotted it into , and hairgrips pinged out over the floor and the table around her . |
| 7 | YORK Minster 's bells rang out over the city for the first time in six months at the weekend their longest break since the Second World War . |
| 8 | According to the Tass news agency , 37 trains got through over the weekend , partly as a result of ‘ serious measures ’ by the authorities . |
| 9 | The great Blue Boar inn was a half-stone tavern mansion , its glazed horned windows stared out over the market place . |
| 10 | Both men hurtled on over the top of Barbara in a tangle of limbs , crashing to the office floor . |
| 11 | Alexei stared out over the view , and wondered why his father had caused his house to be built in such a style . |
| 12 | He took in the way the little boy 's hands stretched out over the crowd of distressed men as if to soothe them , and , for the first time in his life , he felt something that was not quite fear and not quite joy — an emptiness that longed to be filled . |
| 13 | Wrought-iron balconies jutted out over the water , and high above their heads lines of washing were strung , hanging motionless in the hot , still air . |
| 14 | The upper storeys of the dwellings leaned out over the street , giving them a drunken appearance , and the dim caverns beyond the light of the high street seemed to Isabel to mirror the dark side of this city of churches . |