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Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb pp] over the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Kneeling , with my head bent over the lavatory , it was some time before I realised this sickness was not a thing I could throw up .
2	With my head bent over the sink I had plenty of time to work out my options .
3	They were full of movement , the maids , but the strange girl was as still as a hunting cat , her fingers closed over the cheap pin and her eyes open now .
4	Her fingers closed over the handle , the half-raised posture of her body shielding the movement from de Raimes .
5	Her eyes slipped across and down to glimpse any words not covered by her fingers spread over the top page : ‘ hours ’ , ‘ be with you ’ , ‘ your name ’ , ‘ love ’ , ‘ last night ’ .
6	Fand lay on it , her hair spread over the dark wood .
7	The girls were now too close to their exam , too anxious to do more than lift their faces to him , but out of the tiredness and filth of lime he could be seen looking often at their heads bent over the lamplit pages in what looked close to melancholy and sunken reflection .
8	There was a ragged pause , not a movement as the last of her underwear floated over the side of the bed .
9	The flame from its mouth passed over the western lands like a comet and woke millennial longings in the hearts of Roman legionaries , who eked out their twenty years of cold service dreaming of victories and of eating fresh figs under the olive trees of home .
10	With all sense of distance blotted out by the night , their car slapped over the deserted tarmac .
11	Her eyes moved over the room too .
12	’ Her eyes flicked over the Louis XIV furniture of the formal salon .
13	Her eyes swept over the audience as far as she could see beyond the footlights .
14	Then , as her eyes swept over the crowd clustered round the stage , she did a double-take , spotting one figure much larger and more powerful than the rest .
15	Her gaze skimmed over the fishing rods and tackle that were stored neatly against the side wall , and kept in place by a solid retaining bar .
16	Ward opened up the paper to reveal two tiny clay figures interlocked , the woman with her head bent over the man 's huge phallic erection .
17	Her head bent over the exquisite gondola .
18	Its stalls spread over the whole area successfully restricting passage in any direction .
19	Betty Gilling was at the cottage door , her white hair knotted prettily on top of her head and her arms folded over the mound of her stomach where her eighth child was curled , almost ready to be born .
20	Her hand cupped over the receiver , she began to relay the endless continental choices , in a list sounding like a Bavarian family tree .
21	‘ C.W. , it 's for you , ’ she called out , her hand cupped over the mouthpiece .
22	He wears pink rubber gloves , their tops stretched over the overalls ' cuffs .
23	And these are n't the sort of people that write to us using block capitals all the way through , these are reasonable people who 've had their property damaged over the years some quite horrendous tales and talk about walls being knocked down .
24	Her eyebrows met over the bridge of her nose .
25	His mouth played over the silken plane of her stomach , drifting down over the pliant swelling of her abdomen , and little whimpering cries broke from her lips .
26	The man became calmer , sank to his knees and allowed the executioner to bend him so his neck fitted over the block .
27	He was keeping his head pointed firmly downwards , but he could feel a disresonance and his eyes searched over the stencilling shading of rock , scrub and moor .
28	Nervously his eyes flicked over the screen .
29	Bicker shrugged , but his eyes flicked over the fire for a second to Riven .
30	His eyes played over the building in front of them — a jumble of towers , crenellations and massive walls with a sagging Rag of St George above the gatehouse picked out in the beam of a spotlight .