Example sentences of "[vb past] over [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The solid trapdoor lifted and crashed over onto the tiled floor , and his heart soared as the torch light revealed the wooden rungs of a ladder descending into the darkness below . |
| 2 | Athelstan stood for a moment in disbelief , then he moved over to the other bed post : there , in the centre , the artist had etched a life-like horse . |
| 3 | He moved over to the other side of the office and had begun searching through a well-stocked bookshelf when the phone on his desk rang close by Folly 's hand . |
| 4 | The play moved over to the other side of the field and they stopped their conversation for a moment to follow it . |
| 5 | An interesting natural experiment arose when the entire school moved over to the new pathway course in 1987 . |
| 6 | Miss Easterbrook moved over to the open notebook . |
| 7 | He wandered over to the far wall . |
| 8 | She wandered over to the chicken-wired window , and looked out . |
| 9 | Dougal wandered over to the uncurtained window . |
| 10 | A strangely-deserted sidewalk , Rex noted as he leapt out of the cab and stalked over to the fallen driver . |
| 11 | Breathing a sigh of relief , I drove over to the local airfield and arranged for the flight to take place a week earlier , just in case . |
| 12 | I simply climbed over the eight foot fence , strolled over to the main accomodation block and mingled with all the other prisoners there . |
| 13 | He strolled over to the little Park Police Station among the trees . |
| 14 | Vitor strolled over to the open door to look out at the house with its quaint latticed windows , its white-painted shutters , the walls awash with waterfalls of crimson bougainvillaea . |
| 15 | Her ancestors came over on the legendary vessel . |
| 16 | When I told Constanza , she who has a memory for these things said , ‘ Good Lord , not M. J. Devaux who came over with the French team after the war ? ’ |
| 17 | Milwall have the lead that 's the important thing here it came over at the far side of the penalty area , had got up for it Ray and the Kennedy there was also a Middlesbrough foot in there . |
| 18 | If only such projects could be taken off the government 's books and handed over to the private sector , to get on with them . |
| 19 | In January Mauritania handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross 23 Senegalese fishermen detained since July 1989 . |
| 20 | Leaving her safely tethered , he walked over toward the main door . |
| 21 | He detailed two of his sergeants to check the other trolleys and walked over to the surviving terrorist . |
| 22 | On one side was the flower-garden view ; on the other , one window had been bricked up at the time when windows were taxed , and I walked over to the remaining window . |
| 23 | Sunil walked over to the far side of his bed , searched among the books that stood in piles in the corner and selected half a dozen paperbacks . |
| 24 | She giggled and walked over to the other machine . |
| 25 | Hari was tired , she had worked all day and then walked over to the other side of town and back and now there was supper to get . |
| 26 | Just my personal assistant bringing me up to date on some business matters , ’ he added dismissively as he walked over to the other side of the bed , picking up his slim gold watch from a small table . |
| 27 | I walked over to the grassy map of Mindanao ; they followed . |
| 28 | ‘ Pickles really is absolutely hopeless , ’ he said as they walked over to the crowded marquee . |
| 29 | Thanking him , Delaney and Connors walked over to the main plot . |
| 30 | Bolt Head sat up , left his desk and walked over to the huge VDU screen that dominated one wall of his office . |