Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I passed over the paper-towel bundle . |
| 2 | As to the type of employment the interesting feature that I experienced over the last two to three years as shown is that the inquiry level the type of inquiries has tended to focus on manufacturing and the attraction has been the quality of the work force , that is both in skill and its healthiness you know the liability and there are other issues in there too about where Britain is at these days in terms of immunisation wage levels , but it is the people that are themselves the major attractors so the potential work force in the locality that is the major attractor . |
| 3 | Still dazed and confused , I wandered over the bare earth that was once the Ken Mentle Memorial Stand . |
| 4 | The snapping of twigs as someone moved over the thick , soggy mass of fallen leaves . |
| 5 | I trudged over the soft earth , in among the houses , and stopped outside the one-room school , where a crowd of boys had gathered . |
| 6 | There was a balcony outside ; I climbed over the low sill and walked to the edge of it . |
| 7 | I climbed over the dead bodies and looked around the washroom ; my eyes had grown used to the dim red emergency lights by now . |
| 8 | When I had done that , I touched over the same areas again to strengthen a colour or restate an edge or detail as I felt necessary . |
| 9 | The King had invited me to enter it , so I stepped over the surrounding wall into the palace garden . |
| 10 | I found myself mentally putting aside half the afternoon for the task as I struggled over the incomprehensible jargon in my handbook . |
| 11 | I must say it was the worst experience of my life , each time I looked over the stable door the most terrible thoughts went through my mind : what if he was lying down ? |
| 12 | I looked over the refurbished Factory again , just because I love looking at it and tinkering with it and touching it and tipping some of its little levers and doors and devices . |
| 13 | I thought over the 90 minutes we were the better team . |
| 14 | The journey back to London went quickly as I mulled over the strange background to Froggy Davies ' death . |
| 15 | I crossed over the little pack horse bridge . |
| 16 | On my way out of the office that first day I fell over the only other disabled student in the college who was a wheelchair user . |
| 17 | But I intended to follow the same course of action as I had over the earlier incident : to say nothing until he gave me an opening . |
| 18 | I stood over the other side of the road from it and watched . |
| 19 | I jumped over the other side of the wall , so if she jumps she 'd have |
| 20 | But Jim , the chap who lives next door to them came over the other night to collect a pound from me as my contribution to the er , sign on the lamppost saying that this is a watch neighbourhood watch area , now it 's |
| 21 | The most fundamental need was to increase the area of water by the provision and enlargement of wet-docks and basins , the total acreage of which doubled over the last quarter of the eighteenth century as a prelude to a much greater expansion between 1800 and 1830 . |
| 22 | The war , which arose over the two countries ' rival ambitions in Manchuria and Korea , was widely regarded in Russia as the product of intrigue at court and among a handful of entrepreneurs , and aroused little patriotic enthusiasm . |
| 23 | Look back at any crises which occurred over the last few years . |
| 24 | ‘ Love apples , ’ she had said to Mark , and the words ‘ love apple ’ had somehow given a name to the district , strange and different as it was from the rest of the parish which lay over the other side of the main road , far from the railway line . |
| 25 | She stood fingering the tresses of the willow , branches of which wept over the upturned hull of a boat , which had been dug out of the peat bog to the north of the island and was permanently on display . |
| 26 | The Spanish empire , which stretched over the American continent from California to the Straits of Magellan , was the most imposing political structure of the Western world ; to Napoleon it was still the greatest supplier of silver and to British merchants the greatest unexploited market . |
| 27 | Culturally it was the bourgeois life style which prevailed over the aristocratic , if only by a fairly general withdrawal of the old aristocracy from the world of culture ( as that word was now understood ) : they became , in so far as they were not already , the ‘ barbarians ’ of Matthew Arnold ( 1822–88 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Large numbers of entries were received for all the competitions , which ran over the two days and were thrown open to the past members of the Club , as well as members of the Ladies and Artisans sections . |
| 29 | He remained nearly half an hour turning from side to side as though watching some great action which extended over the whole visible forest . |
| 30 | Nothing happened over the next two days except the conclusion of the Crystal International Tournament , and a win for the ever-consistent Jose Miguel by one shot from the imported American star , Carl Krantz . |