Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [v-ing] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a person claims possession of land he alleges is occupied solely by a person or persons ( not a tenant or tenants holding over ) who entered into or remained in occupation without his licence or consent or that of any predecessor in title of his , the proceedings may be brought by originating application under Ord 24 . |
| 2 | On the subject of overseas coaches or players coming over for big money to coach Irish clubs Armstrong has strong views . |
| 3 | He was an extraordinarily handsome young man of about my own age , which is thirty , and he had an aquiline nose , sculptured lips and hair curling over a high black and silver collar . |
| 4 | Stark coughed , a sticky flux of phlegm and blood spilling over his lips . |
| 5 | There 's a mess of yelling and confusion coming over , and I ask him what is going on . |
| 6 | The Headquarters team doing all the planning and Districts taking over once a project |
| 7 | With a balloon bobbing against my left shoulder and sand blowing over my boots , I opened my presents — a hot-water bottle and a small canister of shaving foam from Joan , and the book of Job and a miniature of whisky from my parents . |
| 8 | Taking a deep swallow of the wine , she glanced away , watching a large rigged sailboat as it glided by , packed with holidaymakers , distant strains of steel band music and laughter drifting over on the wind . |
| 9 | History has seen many types of spirit ‘ answering machines ’ including table rapping or tipping ( each rap or tilt spelling out a letter or answer ) and pendulum swinging over an alphabet . |
| 10 | The Nativity , with Mary and Joseph bowing over a sleeping child ; Christ 's walk through Limbo , driving away black-faced demons with the power of his golden eye . |
| 11 | Pots and containers brimming over with flowers or foliage are an indispensable garden feature particularly for adding that finishing touch to patios . |
| 12 | When he came back he was carrying the calf , his arms encompassing all four legs , so the hooves came together in a bunch , with the rump and tail protruding over one forearm and the shoulders and chest over the other . |
| 13 | That belief took a severe knock with the screening of Cutting Edge , which showed a pupil beheading a rabbit ( said later to have myxomatosis ) , boys prowling around with weapons , and girls fighting over stolen make-up . |
| 14 | The track from Dent Town up Flinter Gill on to the " Ocky " , as locals call it , is an old green lane , with rough boulders and stones paving the steep way out of the dale used in former days by packhorse trains and coal-carts coming over from Ingleton and Barbondale . |
| 15 | ‘ Yeah , ’ the night manager said with the dry kind of irony usually reserved for flying pigs and hell freezing over . |
| 16 | Clare Gittings suggests that one of the many reasons why embalming decreased during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries was distaste on the part of the nobility — not so much with the practice itself as with the thought of having so many surgeons , apothecaries and wax-chandlers poring over a body at any one time . |
| 17 | There are 28 local prisons in England and Wales housing over one-third of the prison population . |
| 18 | It was neat and clean , the smell of paint and thinners taking over from the smell of straw and apples . |
| 19 | A minute later , there was almost a repeat , Norbury crossing again but Dublin shooting over from five yards . |