Example sentences of "[v-ing] over [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pups slithered out onto the weedy boulders , not forty feet from the cottage window , and waited expectantly until she reappeared carrying a sizeable fish , which the two of them ate together , wrestling over it among the sea-tangle . |
| 2 | Pushing him back down into bed , she stood up , looming over him like the shadows of a nightmare . |
| 3 | FitzAlan stood up , immediately looming over her in the confines of the hut . |
| 4 | She clenched her jaw to kill the sultry languor that was stealing over her at the sight of his thick lashes lying in two black arcs on his gilded cheekbones . |
| 5 | But if anything the cloud hanging over them after the Riddifords left made Dennis , Millie and their expanded family — two more sons Michael and Peter were born after their arrival in Melbourne — even more determined to make it . |
| 6 | She knew that this would be a black cloud hanging over her for the rest of her working life . |
| 7 | ‘ … having disarmed the powers and authorities ( Christ ) made a public spectacle of them , triumphing over them by the cross . ’ |
| 8 | Father was a huge figure bending over him in the dark . |
| 9 | ‘ He should have a doctor , ’ said Paviour anxiously , standing over him with the empty brandy glass . |
| 10 | She lay there , looking about her , the hushed voices of the four men standing nearby washing over her like the senseless murmur of the sea . |
| 11 | ‘ Good evening , Fabia , ’ he greeted her smoothly as the housekeeper melted away , his dark eyes flicking over her from the top of her golden head , taking in her features and perfect complexion before travelling over her long-sleeved fine wool lime-coloured dress , its straight lines hiding none of her femininity , before his all-assessing gaze ended at her neat two-and-a-half-inch-heel shoes . |
| 12 | The return of Lady Eleanor with a pile of fine linen shifts scarcely registered with Isabel as a rapid succession of images flashed through her mind : fitzAlan confronting the Empress with that cold , relentless logic ; wounded and feverish in the hut , but still in control of both her and the situation ; swinging his sword with savage , deadly grace at the ford ; leaning over her at the inn this morning ; holding her … |
| 13 | The filling mechanism is broken and there was much sighing over it in the pen shop . |