Example sentences of "[verb] over [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the foot of the laddered tunnel , the Doctor bent over curiously to examine the glowing ball . |
| 2 | The gastropodic semi-automaton moved over reverentially to polish the section of ancient riveted floor where the two Marines had stood for a while . |
| 3 | Our experience here has been quite unlike that of the Shanghai group last year , in that everyone seems to have fallen over backwards to make the course unpolitical . |
| 4 | " They have a first class officer who has leant over backwards to establish a low profile in dealing with immigrants . " |
| 5 | … We bend over backwards to do the thing [ properly ] … but what happens in practice — do we mean it ? |
| 6 | The young copper rushed bull-like at Sam , swung a terrific right which landed above the head , just displacing a lot of air ; lost his balance , fell to the ground — and as he rolled over quickly to make a scramble to his feet , Sam pounced with his booted feet . |
| 7 | Diesel traction then took over briefly to enable the train to traverse the boiler shop road and Bridgnorth Head Shunt using two separate shunters . |
| 8 | As before , a little water was used to thin the acrylic to the consistency of cream and most of it was gone over twice to get an even coverage of bright intense colour . |
| 9 | The whole incident was a very sore point with my crew , who had worked very hard for long hours on this one , and it was a classic illustration of how our laws often seem to lean over backwards to protect the lawbreakers . |
| 10 | For several years we have been leaning over backwards to avoid the use of the forbidden word , instructing the population at large that it is more dead than the dodo and deleting it from our titles with abandon . |