Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] over a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only I misheard and thought he said a cow hanging over a chair . |
| 2 | You get used to that , the wheel moving over a bit . |
| 3 | The scale of the structures around them is so huge they look like teams of porters marching over a range of hills to a mine . |
| 4 | The sound as they smashed on the upturned bottom was like ‘ a string of freight cars roaring over a trestle ’ . |
| 5 | Lack of scattering does not , however , explain the existence of plateaux extending over a range of values of the gate voltage . |
| 6 | She imagined it as a tiny surge welling over a dam and splashing into a parched valley . |
| 7 | One scene among many that captures the ironic mix of commonplace and macabre has two kids battling over a football , just a few feet away from a dead body . |
| 8 | Using a car weighing over a ton to transport a 12 stone person less than five miles is like using an atomic bomb to kill a canary . |
| 9 | Back at the cottage she found Rodney and Veronica in the kitchen picking over a pile of fungi . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If the investigation is a sustained piece of work extending over a period of weeks , a diary work file or log book of activities should be maintained . |
| 12 | I was getting some drawing prep once and what I was actually told to draw was a towel hanging over a chair . |
| 13 | He was a tourist peering over a painter 's shoulder as he scanned my unread stack of books . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Eggs hatching over a period like this presents no problems for the megapodes . |
| 16 | ‘ He was a new name taking over a side whose fans were expecting big things . |
| 17 | She saw two figures bending over a patch towards the back ; not far from the pit she and Pat and Jim had dug , though a big hedge stood between . |
| 18 | Even the Bee Gees ' ‘ Jive Talking ’ was inspired by car wheels bumping over a railway track . |
| 19 | As conditions improved , the more hardy Koi were introduced , the rest following over a period of weeks . |
| 20 | ( We are , in fact , 206 bones piled on top of one another , with the head weighing over a stone delicately balanced on the top . ) |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Then , a lean index finger hovering over a bell-push , he asked , ‘ Would you like coffee , or lemon tea perhaps ? ’ |
| 23 | Criminalising them would cover trivial matters , such as neighbours quarrelling over a lawnmower . |
| 24 | Penelope went hopefully into the vicarage where she found Sophia smiling over a letter which had just come by the evening post . |
| 25 | Rounding the great bend opposite East Ord , they suddenly came into view of the English forces massing over a mile ahead . |
| 26 | Manuel Lujan , the interior secretary , has grumbled loudly about a Japanese firm taking over a company operating under a government concession in Yosemite National Park . |
| 27 | Mr Rafter looked over my shoulder while I drew a request item for a small boy — a picture of a witch jumping over a bonfire . |
| 28 | The handle consists of bronze sheathing over a lead core . |
| 29 | ESTHER Rantzen 's That 's Life show was rapped by TV watchdogs yesterday over a sketch showing a ‘ blind ’ man falling over a wall . |
| 30 | But it was not only officers and members of the WEA and the District who were pleased with the final agreement over the rural areas scheme and the conclusion of negotiations of byzantine complexity extending over a period of four difficult years . |