Example sentences of "[v-ing] over a [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | But if you want to see the beauty of Corsica without worrying about driving over a cliff edge , try The Trembler . |
| 9 | Her mother was there , checking over a grocery order . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Try , Constance ! ’ he would exhort , when she faltered before jumping a stream or climbing over a hedge . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Stepping over a ridge along the floor , I found myself beside an immense open fireplace , all trace of grate and mantelpiece removed . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I was getting some drawing prep once and what I was actually told to draw was a towel hanging over a chair . |
| 20 | Only I misheard and thought he said a cow hanging over a chair . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Her mind was taken up with puzzling over a fact which had become increasingly clear the longer she stayed in the apartment . |
| 25 | Detectives puzzling over a motive say the girls were not sexually assaulted . |
| 26 | I was passing over a hill when Idris drove past me , hooting , and pointing to the valley where he was obviously going to wait for me . |
| 27 | A longer but more interesting approach is possible by leaving the cart track at the viaduct and keeping along the east side of the railway ; join the track from Winterscales to Dentdale by passing over a bridge near the entrance to Blea Moor tunnel . |
| 28 | It was passing over a bridge across the Jumna . |
| 29 | A later development was the combination of track circuiting , in which an electrical circuit is completed by the wheels of a train passing over a section of track , with ‘ lock and block ’ so that the electric-block instruments were controlled by the trains themselves and thus safety was doubly assured . |
| 30 | Walking through the village on any racing day one would hear conversation like , " What do you know today Fred " and the reply would bring forth such words of wisdom as " Watch Richards in the 2.30 " , or " Back top weight " for these men had a language of their own and in the evening , meeting over a pint the locals would discuss the downfall of the favourite or starting prices and often the first greeting one would get on opening the door of the bar was " How did you get on today " Tich " " , and often the reply was " First and second , Fred " . |