Example sentences of "[noun pl] come over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , the boat was so small that when I rowed , the waves came over the sides of the boat . |
| 2 | The yellow and black police barrier was still there as a warning to other drivers coming over the crest of the hill . |
| 3 | When the blue bonnets came over the border … |
| 4 | AD 793 ‘ In this year , dire forewarnings came over the land of the Northumbrians , and miserably terrified the people ; there were excessive whirlwinds and lightenings , and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air . ’ |
| 5 | Instead , Rob 's cheerful tones came over the wire . |
| 6 | We sat on the sand and waited for the placings to come over the Tannoy . |
| 7 | About 2 o'clock that afternoon , three Allied planes came over the coast and started to drop supplies by parachute . |
| 8 | They came as a lightning surprise to them when two hundred American planes came over the city clearly visible in the cloudless sky , the Italians kept separating in two camps because of fascist and non- fascist fleet ran around frantically trying to get fog machines working , trying to obscure the target but the fog prevented warships in the harbour for putting up an effective anti-aircraft barrage . |
| 9 | A flock of chattering sparrows came over the Cages , landed on the grass by the litter bin where Woil had taken stance , and then twittered off again over the tigers ' cages . |
| 10 | A mesh is to be positioned on top of the existing boundary wall at Loftus Youth and Community Centre to prevent balls coming over the fence into the gardens of nearby houses . |
| 11 | Uncle said he will never forget as a little boy the sight of all these geese coming over the hill beyond our top pasture . |
| 12 | Even as he did so six glistening , shiny black figures came over the railing , rolling and flopping on to the deck , like excited seals . |
| 13 | Then a couple of Jumping Jack fireworks came over the top , one of which fell into my underpants . |
| 14 | The residual swells coming over the reef were causing a moderate surf on the beach : I needed to reconnoitre , weighing up the possibility of swamping before taking the children in . |
| 15 | It was under attack from the law , its sexism was earning it brickbats from sections of the readership , and even the new rock reading section of the market was beginning to note the changes coming over the NME . |
| 16 | Silver seemed about to speak when suddenly there was a pattering in the undergrowth above and three more rabbits came over the bank from the wood . |
| 17 | It was all happening to him , right there in a see-through plastic telephone nodule in the airport concourse with the crowds jostling and plaintive announcements coming over the Tannoy system , and the orange-juice machines gurgling and travellers humping suitcases about with those peculiarly tense expressions people always adopt prior to a long-haul flight . |
| 18 | Sometimes too he would take duck and geese as they floated on some high lochan , coming on them so low along the ground that they only saw him when the massive darkness of his wings came over the peat edge and shadowed out their life . |
| 19 | At eleven o'clock a group of children came over the hill . |
| 20 | Looking out of our window we saw US tanks coming over the Bridge of the Americas , which links the west bank of Panama — where some US bases are located — with the east side , on which the rest of the bases , most commission installations , the Panama Defence Forces ( PDF ) headquarters and Panama City itself , are situated . |