Example sentences of "[v-ing] over [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Storming over to the table , she snatched up her briefcase and flicked it open . |
| 2 | If a policeman could be so well endowed with it , despite the obvious difficulties and frustrations of his profession , the ordinary man or woman would surely be brimming over with a joke or two no matter what the occasion . |
| 3 | BRIMMING over with the spirit that revived traditional British brewing , the Campaign for Real Ale yesterday launched its first European offensive to save Czechoslovakia 's world-renowned breweries . |
| 4 | He knew from past experience that she was capable of leaping over to the terrace . |
| 5 | Morse smiled to himself , and was walking over to the door when Stratton spoke again : ‘ Can I ask you a favour ? ’ |
| 6 | He laughed wryly , walking over to the window to stare at the view she had enjoyed such a short time before . |
| 7 | I told him how it was and he left , walking over to the hotel . |
| 8 | Walking over to the school . ’ |
| 9 | He swung away from her , walking over to the edge of the small pond , his body rigid with a tension that made her afraid to do or say anything that might unleash that anger once again . |
| 10 | I get up and start walking over to the bridge . |
| 11 | She hesitated , her eyes showing a momentary unease , then she did as she was told , walking over to the corner where he had indicated . |
| 12 | As I was walking over to the piano I was thinking , ‘ Should I really be doing this ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ He wo n't touch sheep or hens , ’ said the boy , walking over towards the hide . |
| 14 | He lifted a hand off his cup in weary salute to one of his sergeants. a very dark Scot in a crumpled grey suit who was walking over from the counter , and the man altered course to sit opposite him . |
| 15 | For a whiff the strong white birds floated proudly there , diving , clearing the weed , and waddling over to the house when my father summoned them , for food and to be shut up for the night . |
| 16 | I raised with David Ingram at my JAR a matter which I 've been mulling over for a while , arising from my role as Welfare Officer . |
| 17 | Is it something hanging over from the past ? |
| 18 | Then listen to the guitar of Ruth Morris , bellowing over in the corner like a love-lorn brontosaurus . |
| 19 | So , there 's me , in agony with me ankle , hobbling over to the hole that I 'd made in the wall of the office . |
| 20 | In the early morning planes were heard passing over in the mist and the rain . |
| 21 | Mendez was looking over at the bar ; Russell down at his drink , as if thinking or listening . |
| 22 | Looking over to the block of flats opposite , I can see a window with a dark , damp patch underneath it as big as the window itself : it was n't raining , but somehow it was wet . |
| 23 | So what we 're picking over on the plate now is not so much John Major , but the treatment of the press |
| 24 | Tiptoeing over to the crib , he looked down at the red wrinkled face of the sleeping child . |
| 25 | And in a second he was under the Man 's arm and out through the cage door , free and gliding over towards the fence by the benches . |
| 26 | Miniature tidal waves swept up against the waterfront , tearing piers and jetties away , spilling over into the maze of streets , driving a human exodus before them . |
| 27 | The film 's all spilling over into the rest of the time . |
| 28 | Insulin prevents the rise in blood sugar which would adversely affect brain function and cause sugar to be wasted by spilling over into the urine . |
| 29 | Andy is filling the single champagne glass at the apex of the pyramid with champagne ; it is overflowing , filling the three glasses beneath it ; they in turn are overflowing , filling the glasses on the level beneath them , which are also full and so spilling over to the level underneath , and so on and so on down almost to the bottom ; Andy is on his eighth magnum . |
| 30 | Violence spilling over from the conflict in Croatia has escalated dramatically in recent weeks after the republic 's 1.9 million Muslims and 750,000 Croats voted overwhelmingly to secede from Serb-controlled remnants of Yugoslavia . |