Example sentences of "[v-ing] over [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But if you look at their records they have been knocking over leading Test match sides in this way for years . |
| 2 | Then they were driving over rough ground , loose stones popping under the tyres . |
| 3 | The last lap back to Bergen was a sightseeing one via the spectacular coast route , visiting such places as the Briksdal Glacier , and driving over breathtaking mountain roads . |
| 4 | Then the van was leaping over rough ground , getting out of sight of the road . |
| 5 | The Vibram soles gave plenty of grip , wet and dry , and the boots have become comfortable friends for distance walking over reasonable terrain . |
| 6 | To the north of the area isolated tracts of limestone intrude among the peaty gritstones of the Pennines , adding a sparkle to the sombre landscapes by erupting on the surface in natural features and formations that demand attention : some are easily accessible and are popular objectives attracting many visitors , while others are little known and reached only by walking over rough ground . |
| 7 | MANY PLACES OF INTEREST on and around the Three Peaks can only be reached on foot after many miles of walking over rough ground , but visitors to Leck Fell are favoured by a quiet moorland road that takes them to their objective precisely and , if they travel by car , without effort . |
| 8 | For ski touring or walking over tricky terrain it helps to have the load still as close to your back as possible but lower down . |
| 9 | The surge of multimedia developments continues apace , and yesterday , Digital Equipment Corp joined forces with start-up LANCity Corp , Andover , Massachusetts to announce a system for enabling high-speed multimedia data networking over ordinary cable television lines , putting implementers in direct competition with local phone companies . |
| 10 | Pendant lights , usually hanging on their own flex from a ceiling rose , are the most common form of general tungsten lighting — ideally , there should n't be just one light in the centre of a room , but two or more around the room , including over any table . |
| 11 | Thereupon turn right into Between Towns Road , heading towards the Cowley centre , and passing over one mini-roundabout . |
| 12 | The Department of Transport awarded contracts to firms to develop electronics that would identify cars passing over buried toll ‘ gates ’ . |
| 13 | A newly-blazed path leaves the Gaping Gill area and climbs to the ridge high above in the west , there passing over Little Ingleborough to reach the main summit half a mile further on . |
| 14 | I return constantly to the same two luxuries : having someone to wash my hair every morning , and peeing over crushed ice . ) |
| 15 | Union issues warning over civil service jobs |
| 16 | Sometimes his route to the nearest safe place involved scrambling over loose rock , or entailed ladder climbing to escape from a stope , with his only source of light a guttering candle held in the hand , or stuck to his hat with a blob of clay . |
| 17 | In 1604 James I of England published his famous Counterlaste to Tobacco in which he made what was probably the earliest statement on the effects of smoling on gastric secretion : ‘ … and by causing over quick digestion , fill the stomach full of crudites . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Her hat was a stained velvet Rembrandt , fruit lurching over one ear , and her dark glasses made her a parody of Bette Davis 's cameo wicked eccentrics . |
| 20 | A tail-wheel with a rubber tyre will resist skidding sideways over tarmac , but it will not grip quite so well when it is bouncing over rough grass . |
| 21 | Our driver gave a cry and swung off in pursuit , the jeep bouncing over rough ground until the headlights reflected a pair of amber eyes , then another and another . |
| 22 | Cray is finding it harder and harder to grow its monolithic supercomputers as the world edges towards parallel systems with the view that they will be able to take over many of the tasks presently handled by today 's vector processors , and you ca n't enter an IBM lab these days without stumbling over some kind of parallel processing development project . |
| 23 | I was worrying over some homework |
| 24 | At March 1979 the number of in-patients waiting over one year was 185,195 . |
| 25 | She was as at home in jeans , hiking over rough country , as she was curled up in silk lounging pyjamas , reading a book . |
| 26 | 19 ASICS GEL LD RACER 210g Two density compression-moulded EVA midsole with Gel unit in forefoot. £49.99 Suitable for racing over any distance |
| 27 | She worked her way round the obstruction , clambering over general debris as she went . |
| 28 | And Jed took another look around and made a face that suggested mild indifference lying over mild disapproval . |
| 29 | Some have romantic visions of crouched and muffled figures dragging log-laden sledges through a savage landscape of snow and ice ; frost-bearded Vikings with massive axes , round great fires of pine logs ; or raw-boned Northerners squatting over faggot-heated porridge pots . |
| 30 | In particular , it did not prevent Robert Hersant from creating , from 1950 and from nothing , what became by the 1980S France 's biggest newspaper publishing group -over 40 titles totalling over one quarter of the circulation of the regional dailies and over a third ( 38 per cent ( of the national daily press . |