Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] over a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially , he could n't see the body , and then he noticed the tell-tale blanket draped over a shape on the floor . |
| 2 | If the damage occurred over a period of time , there is no cover . |
| 3 | In the Newtonian sense of work , as force applied over a distance , land animals do little in getting from here to there . |
| 4 | The place was empty , but for a cloak-shrouded figure bent over a rosary to the right of the door , and a man sitting alone in the front row . |
| 5 | She fumbled for the torch , and thumbed over the button with a chilly hand , and the cone of light spilled over a man 's body , face-down in the shallow water , glistening under the abrupt brightness in violent projections of black and white . |
| 6 | The internal filter usually consists of a pump/powerhead mounted over a chamber filled with foam ( though other media can be used ) . |
| 7 | Her glance played over a room which was no longer her own . |
| 8 | Watkins particularly noted notches where the ley went over a hilltop . |
| 9 | Beyond the long line of windows , past the Conservatory and the Laburnum Walk , they came to the winter-bound Pleasure Garden where yellow jasmine crawled over a tree stump , hamamelis , the wych-hazel shrub , thrust out golden hedgehog flowers along its leafless branches , and the stream coming from the kitchen garden — a winter river now — hurried into the culvert that carried it on into the baby lake in the field outside the Pleasure Garden . |
| 10 | It appears that Geordie , the Newcastle chap who cheered things up during the trip to the beach last week , by being the first to run naked into the sea , was badly wounded when his jeep ran over a mine and the driver was killed . |
| 11 | MANAGEMENT at one of Gwynedd 's biggest employers were staying tight-lipped yesterday as industrial action loomed over a pay freeze . |
| 12 | I hold my hands over the cooker like I was a boy scout crouched over a camp-fire . |
| 13 | A wooden frame or pelmet mounted over a window treatment to hide the hardware . |
| 14 | The guard handed over a bag containing seven thousand pounds . |
| 15 | The guard handed over a bag containing seven thousand pounds . |
| 16 | Further heated correspondence followed over a period of months , illustrating that strong views were held on both sides and that the time for agreement had not arrived . |
| 17 | A breastsummer is n't just a piece of wood stuck over a gap , it 's a piece of wood that holds the walls together , and the rest of the building up . |
| 18 | We 'd been providing cover for the convoy , when a vehicle went over a land mine . |
| 19 | A lady from the nearby pub bought over a couple of pints — there was quite a reception aftewards . |
| 20 | A UNITED NATIONS peace-keeper from Cameroon was killed today when his vehicle ran over a mine near the Angkor temples in north-western Cambodia , a UN spokesman said . |
| 21 | On one side of the fireplace a grey-haired woman was absorbed in some needlework whilst on the other side , with her back to us , a young girl crouched over a book , loudly reciting a French poem in a voice shot through with gaiety and laughter . |
| 22 | A loan is a sum of money borrowed over a period of time at a certain rate of interest . |
| 23 | You repay the money borrowed over a set period of time at a fixed monthly amount , which includes the interest . |
| 24 | There is no guarantee at all that the former , simply by taking place in a teacher 's place of work , will somehow be more relevant or valuable than the latter ( a point made over a decade ago Alexander 1980 — in the context of a previous incarnation of current debates ) . |
| 25 | Out of a total of seventeen boys from this group interviewed over a period of one year , no fewer than ten had been in trouble with the police for offences not connected with activities at football matches . |
| 26 | In several instances , the parents gradually became aware that something was ‘ wrong ’ : the user 's physical appearance deteriorated over a period of time ; household and personal items were unexplainedly missing from the home ; the user began borrowing heavily and often from parents and siblings . |
| 27 | Suspended from a length of string hung over a chair placed beside the small pit was a piece of card . |
| 28 | The Scouse flicked over a page of his cowboy book and continued reading as the three Commandos chorused , ‘ You lying bastard ’ . |
| 29 | I took over and we lost our way where a blackened adobe town sprawled over a hill above a steelworks . |
| 30 | Consisting of small squares of canvas stretched over a bamboo frame set in cement , the Pierre Druesnes composition being shown by Franka Berndt resembles a pyramid , pointing the way heavenward , a substitute for human presence , or emphasis of its absence . |