Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [v-ing] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raynor had tipped a basket of logs on to the fire , and warmth and light were washing over the room . |
| 2 | And the light is fading over the deaths which take place right upstage . |
| 3 | Marco was stepping over the spasming limb as if the robot was n't there . |
| 4 | Then a reminder of the tragedy came during World War I when a Polish soldier was walking over the bridge one starlit night when he saw the wraith of a man dancing on the parapet . |
| 5 | Already Lavender 's scheming mind was going over the possibilities that this water-jug job had opened up for her . |
| 6 | I looked as if I was reading the paper , but my mind was going over the events at Ingard House , and the curious discrepancy in the stories about Andrew Stavanger . |
| 7 | The knife was sharper than she 'd allowed , and soon blood was spurting over the tablecloth with each heartbeat . |
| 8 | The wind was blowing over the top of Jinny 's head , fluttering the loose , short hairs round her forehead . |
| 9 | Sticking with clothing , those hapless popsters OCEAN COLOUR SCENE are grieving over the loss of more than £2,000 worth of T-shirts which managed to fall out of the back of their van while they drove through the Moseley area of Birmingham last week . |
| 10 | While the universe is mulling over the implications of this , Mr Adam turns up . |
| 11 | Anxiety is growing over the Government 's commitment to energy sources such as wind , wave and solar power since Colin Moynihan , the Energy Minister who championed the cause , lost his seat at the general election . |
| 12 | The sun was shining over the Gower Peninsula and the train was sending me all how-green-was-my-valley . |
| 13 | AT A crowded night market in Bangkok a stallholder and a tourist are haggling over the price of a polo shirt . |
| 14 | The unmistakable shape of a turkey vulture was soaring over the rocky ridge below which the jumbled boulders of the mysterious ‘ stone runs ’ flowed in great ‘ rivers ’ down the hillsides and out on to almost level ground . |
| 15 | A question mark is hanging over the $1m contract awarded to Informix Software Inc last January by the Czechoslovakian Federal Ministry of the Interior to provide citizen registration and administration software to local municipalities . |
| 16 | The sun had set and dusk was closing over the moor , which looked grey and melancholy . |
| 17 | She heard a ‘ Gee up ! there , ’ and then the cab was rolling over the cobbles . |
| 18 | I felt a touch of the sinister that rules so many of the islands ; there was no reason to shiver in that warm spot , but I did , and experienced a slight sense of embarrassment , as though I had been intruding , thinking perhaps not of Tiare but of the great love all those years ago which had produced her : forty years ago when the water was cascading over the same cliff in just the same way as it had today , Princess Tiare 's mother and her lover had bathed in the same secret pool and later , perhaps , made love in the cave behind . |
| 19 | We arrived at an other dam around noon ; water was rushing over the huge rocks and it was too risky to try to paddle across so the canoes were lined across . |
| 20 | Er all the water was coming over the doors . |
| 21 | I awakened Taff at first light ( for stand-to ) as the early morning Normandy mist was gathering over the fields and hedgerows . |
| 22 | In June 1936 , Jacques met Morris in an attempt to explain the ways in which the Cambridge Board and the District were co-operating over the provision of adult education in an attempt to persuade the LEA to increase its annual grant , then a mere £20 . |
| 23 | ‘ What is it ? ’ he answered , standing , looking across to where the captain was kneeling over the fallen man . |
| 24 | Mahmud and his cousin were haggling over the price of a game called Willy Beamish . ’ |
| 25 | When I emerge Bill is looking over the side , around the boat , with a mixture of rage and disbelief . |
| 26 | When the Minister considers the proposed closure of research vessel support services at Barry , the destruction of the environmental research centre at Bangor , the threat to the environment from the Water Bill and the failure of Government Ministers to obtain a separate water authority for Wales , does he agree that the Secretary of State is presiding over the destruction of environmental research in Wales ? |
| 27 | The man was bending over the trough , sloshing handfuls of water everywhere . |
| 28 | Up above , the other man was clambering over the iron rail of the terrace , a dark and uncertain shape against the night sky . |
| 29 | Lorne was dangling over the bowsprit filming as I firmly held his legs , when he was taken off-guard by a violent lurch and dropped our wide-angle lens cap overboard . |
| 30 | The growing strength of Spanish Communism and its identification with the international movement to aid the Republic , underline the increasing influence which the Soviet Union was exercising over the European Left . |