Example sentences of "[v-ing] over [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Storming over to the table , she snatched up her briefcase and flicked it open . |
| 2 | BRIMMING over with the spirit that revived traditional British brewing , the Campaign for Real Ale yesterday launched its first European offensive to save Czechoslovakia 's world-renowned breweries . |
| 3 | He knew from past experience that she was capable of leaping over to the terrace . |
| 4 | I get up and start walking over to the bridge . |
| 5 | As I was walking over to the piano I was thinking , ‘ Should I really be doing this ? ’ |
| 6 | She hesitated , her eyes showing a momentary unease , then she did as she was told , walking over to the corner where he had indicated . |
| 7 | ‘ I would n't have thought so , ’ Aldridge said , walking over to the next one . |
| 8 | Walking over to the school . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Kopyion , ’ the Archon said , walking over to the police officers . |
| 10 | Morse smiled to himself , and was walking over to the door when Stratton spoke again : ‘ Can I ask you a favour ? ’ |
| 11 | I told him how it was and he left , walking over to the hotel . |
| 12 | He laughed wryly , walking over to the window to stare at the view she had enjoyed such a short time before . |
| 13 | He swung away from her , walking over to the edge of the small pond , his body rigid with a tension that made her afraid to do or say anything that might unleash that anger once again . |
| 14 | He shrugged his shoulders , before walking over to the small refrigerator set in a corner of the living-room . |
| 15 | Walking over to the nearest window , she peered out and found herself looking across what was unmistakably the Grand Canal . |
| 16 | ‘ He wo n't touch sheep or hens , ’ said the boy , walking over towards the hide . |
| 17 | He lifted a hand off his cup in weary salute to one of his sergeants. a very dark Scot in a crumpled grey suit who was walking over from the counter , and the man altered course to sit opposite him . |
| 18 | For a whiff the strong white birds floated proudly there , diving , clearing the weed , and waddling over to the house when my father summoned them , for food and to be shut up for the night . |
| 19 | Ideally the Civic Society would like to see far more drastic policy change , possibly thinking in terms of forty hectares but we realize the minimum possible would be the thirty point five hectares which is hanging over from the first phase of the structure plan , and so that must of course be regarded as committed . |
| 20 | Is it something hanging over from the past ? |
| 21 | Wigan struck again in the 37th minute when Betts and Edwards combined to send Phil Clarke crashing over by the posts . |
| 22 | Then listen to the guitar of Ruth Morris , bellowing over in the corner like a love-lorn brontosaurus . |
| 23 | So , there 's me , in agony with me ankle , hobbling over to the hole that I 'd made in the wall of the office . |
| 24 | On that occasion we lost no time in speeding over to the courts , finding a judge , and obtaining an injunction almost at once . |
| 25 | There is bound to be considerable upheaval among the blue-chip client list which Deloitte UK is bringing over to the new firm . |
| 26 | The show opens in 18th century rural Britain , when stage coaches and canals were the main form of transport , passing over to the industrial revolution , when Britain became the workshop of the world , to the decline of heavy industry and the steam locomotive and the accompanying dereliction through to today 's modern rail system and the survival of many steam locomotives , not only in this country , but worldwide . |
| 27 | In the early morning planes were heard passing over in the mist and the rain . |
| 28 | Long before they had passed the watershed and were looking over into the jaws of the mountains at the head of Loch Morar , young Angus felt he had strayed into a foreign country . |
| 29 | Graham grinned looking over at the two Art School girls , who were now sitting on the floor on the other side of the room , talking to each other . |
| 30 | Mendez was looking over at the bar ; Russell down at his drink , as if thinking or listening . |