Example sentences of "they [vb past] over the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They plunged over the very edge of the human capacity to feel . |
| 2 | Crossing into Dutch Timor next day , they moved over the dry coral rocks and through occasional dells of trees around clear springs before reaching a Roman Catholic mission church where the priests told them of Sparrow Force 's defeat . |
| 3 | ‘ He was one of my boys , ’ she said in explanation to the CID sergeant who was leading the party as they bumped over the rough road , through the thick mud and on to the dry embankment . |
| 4 | Gradually the haze and sweat cleared from their eyes and they focussed over the open valley they had cycled up from . |
| 5 | After peeling the rest of the scalp backwards , they pored over the well-demarcated fracture in the skull . |
| 6 | They climbed over the cold wall , into the orchard . |
| 7 | Desert Orchid had often won from worse positions , but he seemed unable to quicken , and was half a length down on his two younger rivals as they landed over the last obstacle . |
| 8 | They walked over the firm mud , among the seaweed , cuttlefish bones , and the jetsam of the sea below and of the mountains above . |
| 9 | They stumbled over the uneven ground and plunged , half-laughing , into the cave 's entrance . |
| 10 | They flew over the Caprian Desert and across the Meridian River . |
| 11 | He then climbed down again , and followed the coaxial cables across the roof to the point where they went over the rear wall of the building and in through one of the bedroom windows of the apartment next to his . |
| 12 | In particular they battled over the key question for secondary education — the age of transfer and the nature of secondary school organisation . |
| 13 | They leaned over the sleeping figure and saw through the polythene tent the hand on the counterpane closed in a tight fist . |
| 14 | In chartered helicopters they hovered over the empty stretch of road between Fenny Stratford and Buckingham to photograph the bare tarmac and the last few barriers and police cars parked there at first light . |
| 15 | ‘ Your lips are even redder now , ’ he murmured , his face close to hers as they crouched over the same clump of fruit . |