Example sentences of "[vb past] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shadow of our plane skipped across the bright sea , then flickered over the outer coral . |
| 2 | Her eyes , set amongst crow's-feet when she smiled , flickered over the other people in the canteen . |
| 3 | His eyes flickered over the bulging hold-all . |
| 4 | Sunlight sought out the gaps and flickered over the new-green fields far below . |
| 5 | Then Ariel bent over the drowsing Sycorax . |
| 6 | He bent over the small instrument . |
| 7 | Amazingly she found herself treated to a brief smile as Niall , hair concealed beneath the operating cap , glanced briefly in her direction before he bent over the unconscious man once more . |
| 8 | Kathleen bent over the unconscious patient and sniffed . |
| 9 | Then , as he bent over the still-unpacked weekend bag to retrieve his clothes , I had a blinding vision . |
| 10 | Gradually the haze and sweat cleared from their eyes and they focussed over the open valley they had cycled up from . |
| 11 | By the time Ceauşescu first visited the Soviet capital , the new wedding-cake skyscrapers of the University and the Foreign Ministry , along with less outlandish and more uncomfortable blocks of flats , towered over the ancient heart of Muscovy . |
| 12 | At nearly fifteen he was already over six feet tall and towered over the little Irish doctor in front of him . |
| 13 | Around him in the yard , his men made water anywhere and , long-throated , poured down the mead and the ale and snatched bread and cheese while the monks clustered over the wounded . |
| 14 | He nodded Chant on , and together they headed over the ill-lit and squalid ground . |
| 15 | Along the top of the bank was the Ben Tee path , leading to a stile and wending up by the burn — rather than towards the peak — so I just headed over the dried-out moor for the steady ascent to the summit . |
| 16 | Incidentally , the working pattern of these bodyguards , so it transpired over the following days , entailed one or the other of them going up to sleep at unusual hours so as to ensure at least one was on duty throughout the night . |
| 17 | The surface was badly pockmarked and the car bumped and bounced over the uneven thoroughfare , its journey only becoming smoother as they reached the main road that would lead them into Chichester itself . |
| 18 | Mosley revolted over the wrong crisis , for he failed to see that considerable social and economic reform would result from a Second World War , a conflagration which he bitterly opposed and which led to his internment in 1940 . |
| 19 | Several changes in tenancy occurred over the following years , but by 1863 , iron founder James Ferrabee , of the Phoenix Iron Works , had taken over Port Mill . |
| 20 | Further clashes occurred over the following two weeks , and on Dec. 6 two high-school students were killed . |
| 21 | This model has been developed and validated over the past four years by a research team at Loughborough University through extensive experimentation . |
| 22 | But we do know that they reached a high , technology-free civilization , practised a sophisticated form of navigation , and ranged over the entire Pacific in ocean-going outriggers . |
| 23 | A bitter smile crossed his face as his eyes ranged over the top men in the giant corporation . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | Behind his head the lights of the lorry were flashing as it bumped over the hard ridges of ice . |
| 26 | Last year 's trouble at Castlemorton Common erupted over the late May Bank Holiday . |
| 27 | As the argument continued behind closed doors , a row erupted over the huge cost of Newall 's arrest and detention , estimated at more than £1 million . |
| 28 | Such was Roger de Clifford the Elder , who presided over the southern forests 1265–81 , and his grandson Robert de Clifford , ‘ one of the greatest barons of the age ’ who headed the northern Forest administration 1297–1308 . |
| 29 | From his vantage point astride Fleet , a chestnut police horse , PC Schrosbree could afford to look happy as he presided over the slow-moving queue . |
| 30 | The party also nominated the head of state ( currently Mathieu Kerekou , who assumed office in 1972 and was most recently re-elected in August 1989 ) , who was elected by the Assembly for a five-year term and who presided over the National Executive Council . |