Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schemes that work in well-ordered German or American suburbs , whose honest burghers would never dream of squeezing their junk into a neighbour 's bin or chucking it over a fence at dead of night , may be less successful in city centres . |
| 2 | Harvest the seeds in July-August by cutting the seedheads just before the first seeds start to fall , and hanging them over a tray in a dry airy place . |
| 3 | She folded her slip and draped it over a chair . |
| 4 | Doreen stepped out of her slip , and draped it over a chair . |
| 5 | Their gaze locked for a long moment as he pulled the towel from his neck and flung it over a rail , then , suddenly embarrassed , she looked away . |
| 6 | ‘ If you take a map of disadvantage and press it over a map of crime , there is too close a coincidence , ’ he said in his annual report last month . |
| 7 | A better approach is to adopt a serial approach and solve them over a number of stages . |
| 8 | Forest-living Indians catch them and roast them over a fire so that the poison drips from their skins . |
| 9 | Chop the vegetables and heat them over a low flame . |
| 10 | However , if the force-carrying particles have a high mass , it will be difficult to produce and exchange them over a large distance . |
| 11 | I peel off my clothes , and put them over a low branch . |
| 12 | Stok took off his evening-dress jacket and put it over a hanger that was lying on my open suitcase . |
| 13 | Geraldine checked no one was looking , took one daffodil and dropped it over a wall into a garden . |
| 14 | He stared , somewhat appalled , as she lifted the wig like a hat and dropped it over a cut-glass vase . |
| 15 | When I wash the garment I just shake out the water and hang it over a clothes horse or the back of a chair . |
| 16 | Carradine caught a half-naked Moroccan boy with his hand deep in my pocket , and threw him over a low wall . |
| 17 | The marchioness loosened her mantle of grey cloth and threw it over a chair . |
| 18 | With a disconsolate sigh she stood up , slipped off the towelling robe and threw it over a chair . |
| 19 | They spread the risks of lending by pooling funds and allocating them over a wide range of depositors ( e.g. unit trusts ) . |
| 20 | I had wrung out the Spidersuit and Y-fronts and hung them over a Bible suck thinking how He would just have to lump a bare arse on His books for one night . |
| 21 | He took off his coat reluctantly , and hung it over a chair . |
| 22 | You can now use expanded memory to edit larger/more complex drawings and use it over a network . |
| 23 | They murdered a woman , cut her throat , after they brutally sliced her breasts , raped and burnt her over a fire ! ’ |
| 24 | The Jot 1.0 specification is designed to enable applications to share handwritten notes , sketches , signatures and other free-form data across the generality of computers from hand-held devices to mainframes , so that if someone scrawls a note and sends it over a modem , it will turn up at the other end as handwriting , regardless of the sending and receiving machines , provided only that they both implement Jot 1.0 . |
| 25 | She might feel compelled to attack him physically at any moment and he was alarming enough to convince her that he would lift her in the air , shake her like a rag doll and toss her over a crag . |
| 26 | She 'd pick up a great lump of it and throw it over a nail and then oil her hands with spit and draw it out and out in a long skein , till it was smooth as glass … ’ |
| 27 | The doctor picked up his silver pen and hovered it over a blank sheet . |