Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] over each " in BNC.
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| 1 | HOLLYWOOD producers are scrambling over each other to snap up rights to top-secret data on some of the biggest Cold War spy scandals . |
| 2 | Twenty-two women , eight washbasins , two toilets , it 's just impossible ; twenty minutes to do all that and bunk your bed as well , and if you 're sleeping in a bunk in a crowded room you 're falling over each other trying to fold your sheets and blankets at the same time . |
| 3 | What 's more , if our marriage were of public interest , I 'm sure that our friends would be falling over each other to tell appalling stories of our life together ( albeit anonymously ) : The arguments , the forgotten anniversaries , the time I threw a carafe of red wine across the room at him , that awful day when he mislaid the baby . |
| 4 | If all the Romanies in the forest try to squeeze into fifty acres we 'll be falling over each other all the time and there 'll be fighting like no one 's ever seen . |
| 5 | We do n't want to be tripping over each other . |
| 6 | Not so long ago lenders were falling over each other to offer mortgages . |
| 7 | The Securitate and the KGB were falling over each other at that point . |
| 8 | A cabin cruiser was chugging down the wide brown river towards that little harbour I 'd seen , and over the other side the bank was so steep that the rows of terraced houses were leaning over each other to get a view . |
| 9 | Hope and fear were tripping over each other inside her . |