Example sentences of "[v-ing] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 knocking over a Queen — and all things marry .
2 DRIVER Ian Sharpe reported knocking over a girl and was told by police : ‘ That 's a ghoul . ’
3 a bus knocking over a girl
4 ‘ Why ? ’ said Albert , knocking over a toothglass of Kirsch with his other boot as he tried to scrape the gelantine off the left heel with his right toe .
5 It was essential to be able to put a hand out for something in the dark without knocking over a jug of water , or sending a pee-bottle flying .
6 ‘ Give it back you thief , ’ he bawls after me , but I spurt ahead , knocking over a coupla kids who start bawling and bellyaching as well , but I do n't stop to investigate , because after all , I 'm doing them a favour , the sooner they learn that life is full of hard knocks the better .
7 The villain makes a run for it , knocking over an oil-lamp and setting fire to his evil lair , and the titles drift past a close-up of his silent scream and melting face .
8 Mapletoft , having knocked over the conversion , trumped it by banging over a 30-metre dropped goal off his weak foot to level at 20–20 .
9 But if you want to see the beauty of Corsica without worrying about driving over a cliff edge , try The Trembler .
10 ‘ And why do you insist on driving over every pothole ?
11 Her mother was there , checking over a grocery order .
12 And really , it is surprising that a company such as Gay Sweatshop still finds a need to have a dyke in a dress suit and a queen in a fluffy frock bitching over a Judy Garland album .
13 This may have occurred in the western Pacific Ocean where the age of the lithosphere presently being subducted indicates that cooling over a period of about 180 200 Ma is required for this process of spontaneous subduction to occur .
14 The road continues south , climbing over a rise with a good retrospective view of the full length of Kingsdale and then makes a long descent to Thornton in Lonsdale after a branch turns off to the right for the A65 at Westhouse .
15 ‘ Try , Constance ! ’ he would exhort , when she faltered before jumping a stream or climbing over a hedge .
16 Out at the line-up , the three men were climbing over a routine thirty-five-footer when they heard screaming and the toot of car horns from the beach .
17 Stepping over a ridge along the floor , I found myself beside an immense open fireplace , all trace of grate and mantelpiece removed .
18 One night , bumping into the doorway , and stepping over a colleague , I made my way out into the sleet , the toilets all being occupied , and as I crouched , steadying my cheek against the cold planks , I peered through the reeking shadows of Auschwitz and saw that the nearest ruins were fuming more than ever and had even begun to glow .
19 The programme is open to people who have been mulling over an idea for some time and experts will give it the commercial analysis it needs and , if it stands up , the business planning and search for funding that it merits .
20 The London County Council had found that it simply was not worth trying to recover the cost of milk from the 25% of London parents whose income was high enough to make them liable for the full billeting contribution , since ‘ the few pounds they had succeeded in recovering over a period of several months were far less than the cost of its collection ’ .
21 The scene was filmed at Swanage , in Dorset , and was reminiscent of Buster Keaton hanging over a waterfall in the 1923 silent classic Our Hospitality .
22 Stephen listened carefully to both , his head forward and down , like a horse 's hanging over a gate , which was a way he had and not altogether due to the curve in his spine .
23 I was getting some drawing prep once and what I was actually told to draw was a towel hanging over a chair .
24 Only I misheard and thought he said a cow hanging over a chair .
25 Did you at the time see the celebration of sexuality — even if it is a boy masturbating over an advertisement in a newspaper — as a kick in the eye of oppressive forces in the church ?
26 One may go on saying that newer nations will develop and strengthen in the way that , say , Pakistan have in their own time in Test cricket , and Zimbabwe obviously need much development before they become capable of competing over a Test series against a major nation .
27 The analysis of the search space carried out in this chapter should help to focus attention on the discriminating requirement of top-down information in terms of the number and similarity of hypotheses competing over a stretch of the utterance , and of the distance between pruning points ( i.e. the grammar ‘ chunks ’ ) , the two factors which determine the potential combinatorial explosion of hypotheses .
28 The creator of the evening 's culinary triumphs emerged unshaven from a cavernous kitchen where he had spent the entire day cooking over a wood fire .
29 Her mind was taken up with puzzling over a fact which had become increasingly clear the longer she stayed in the apartment .
30 Detectives puzzling over a motive say the girls were not sexually assaulted .
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