Example sentences of "[adv prt] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaning in over the sleeping child I must have wanted to see myself as the angel , hovering in protection of an infant who was so obviously in peril . |
| 2 | Sea-water was washing in over the slippery grey stones . |
| 3 | But what er what happened is when they rebuilt this building in the fifteenth century the masons found these and reused them reset them inside because they 'd lost their significance in over the three hundred years , so but they were useful structural er things . |
| 4 | This is our first effort at a full newsletter and we now really appreciate how much effort Lynn has put in over the last few years . |
| 5 | He became aware of the disapproving looks his noisy party were receiving from some of the older locals who had drifted in over the last hour . |
| 6 | And er at the end of it I think we all felt we knew where we were going , and , and what the work that we 'd put in over the last three years on the management procedures , which form the foundations of our quality system . |
| 7 | His followers at the Yorkshire track have raked it in over the last five years with a 1 level stake on all his mounts showing more than 45 to the good . |
| 8 | We we well we 'd love to be able to get get on with our job and er wi with far less interference than we receive at the moment but er when government insists on er on interfering to the extent it does an and there have been well I 've been reading recently so something like five hundred new powers the Education Secretary has given himself in the in over the last last few years . |
| 9 | Certainly not the army of supporters who 've been painting , odd-jobbing and generally mucking in over the past week . |
| 10 | I 'm trying to find out what sort of emotional state your daughter has been in over the past six months . |
| 11 | The plaudits have been pouring in over the past weeks , as the following reports show . |
| 12 | As an innovator , what directions would you like to see archaeology go in over the next twenty years ? |
| 13 | You add up all the bills you know will come in over the next year — plus a bit more for contingencies — and divide by twelve . |
| 14 | The extra 300 staff will be phased in over the next few years . |
| 15 | The free edge of the epidermis has clearly moved in over the marked wound mesenchyme , leaving less than 10% of it exposed by this stage . |
| 16 | Man shuffled along over the cold floors , some dressed in grey prison-issue pyjamas , others bare-chested or in boxer shorts . |
| 17 | politically , too , despite tensions over Berlin and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 , the furore over the U2 incident when an American reconnaissance plane was shot down over the Soviet Union , and the shock of the Soviet lead in space exploration and technology , tensions between the two superpowers had not returned to the glacial levels of a decade earlier . |
| 18 | They looked large against the light pouring down over the flat land . |
| 19 | The feathers of its tail , shiny strips of shot-silk in blue , black , green and russet , drooped down over the dark folds of Kalchu 's sleeve . |
| 20 | It was Lavinia who had supported him every step of the way , kept him upright at the graveside , yet within a month she , too , was alone , her husband shot down over the Western Front . |
| 21 | Nevertheless he seemed willing enough to accompany the Finnish detective in the dangerous climb down over the tumbling rocks to where his cousin and his cousin 's pretty , peroxided fiancée lay . |
| 22 | The Government 's principal task in the months to come will be to restore the right mix of monetary and fiscal policy — now badly out of balance — so that interest rates have a better chance of coming down , and staying down over the long run . |
| 23 | His mouth played over the silken plane of her stomach , drifting down over the pliant swelling of her abdomen , and little whimpering cries broke from her lips . |
| 24 | Head towards Gennargentu and look down over the vast , untamed terrain where sheep graze among herbs and shrubs . |
| 25 | Reaching out , Vitor touched a honey-coloured strand of hair which had tumbled from her topknot to curl down over the exposed nape of her neck . |
| 26 | Doggedly she kept her head down over the jewel-coloured designs , trying to concentrate , but after another few seconds she gave up and laid down her pen with elaborate resignation . |
| 27 | Stepping back , Curtis waited till the racking coughing fit ended in a sudden gush of bright red blood , which spilled down over the dying killer 's slack lower jaw . |
| 28 | If your weight has gone up and down over the last year ( or ten years ! ) try to remember when and why it was up or down . |
| 29 | staff salaries have gone down over the last eighteen months |
| 30 | In Brazil there are all sorts of commodities whose price has gone down over the last ten years . |