Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [verb] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Land Rover was pitching and rolling over the southern brow like a small seagoing craft . |
| 2 | They flew in a magical world of silence , swooping and gliding over the dark world below where all the earthly people were fast asleep in their beds . |
| 3 | The latter sturdy little ships were two and three deep alongside the large vessels discharging their cargoes in a frenzy of activity while overhead the air was thick with gulls , diving and squabbling over the loose fish as it spilled from the swinging baskets . |
| 4 | He stood beneath the apothecary 's sign , dagger still drawn ; two cats raced by , screeching and squabbling over the half-gnawed body of a rat . |
| 5 | He had been unencumbered , panting and slithering over the streaming pavements . |
| 6 | Rosie at once scrambled to her feet , the marbles she had in her lap dropping and clattering over the polished wood floors . |