Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , together with the political dimension , means that it is hardly surprising that problems such as the inner cities tend to be defined and redefined over the years . |
| 2 | After 1998 , these figures start being ‘ phased down ’ by ½ per cent a year , so that anyone retiring after the year 2008 gets only 20 per cent ( one fifth ) of their relevant earnings , after they have been revalued and averaged over the whole of the working life . |
| 3 | Black shadows arced and jiggered over the walls . |
| 4 | The fog lay upon the river and swirled over the bridge . |
| 5 | Marge , the gal who capsized and bumped over the rocks at Chase Rapids , showed us her bottom bruises . |
| 6 | In 1955 , Floirat bought the ailing radio station Europe 1 and presided over the company for 30 years , transforming it into one of the country 's most popular stations . |
| 7 | From 1965 to 1970 Rowiecki also served as musical director of the Theatr Wielki , Warsaw 's huge opera and ballet theatre , and presided over the opening performance of the reconstructed building in 1965 , conducting Moniuszko 's Straszny Dwor ( ' The Haunted House' , a characteristically Polish mix of folklore and Bellinian melody ) . |
| 8 | Izanami henceforth became the Earth Mother , the prime goddess of Shinto , and presided over the Underworld . |
| 9 | ‘ That last man — the one in the Mozart wig without a mask — wanted to show me a restaurant because I 'm mad on cooking and drooled over the recipes he described . ’ |
| 10 | He threw his dressing gown casually on the chair and — with never a glance at Arty — jumped between the sheets , picked up the newspaper from the floor beside the bed , opened it out and peered over the top , his ears tuned to the conversation . |
| 11 | Stella walked to the poplar-trees and peered over the wall into the field . |
| 12 | Satisfied he was at least decently dressed , Seb raised his head cautiously and peered over the edge of the hollow . |
| 13 | In the frosty quiet he heard the sound of an engine too suave to belong to a resident , and peered over the parapet to see the men getting out of the car below . |
| 14 | I dived into the bathroom and bent over the loo . |
| 15 | In 800 Pope Leo III was taken prisoner by relatives of his predecessor Hadrian I. They tried to blind him , but he escaped and fled over the Alps to Charles , who was encamped at Paderborn in central Saxony . |
| 16 | The wheels of the cart rumbled and crashed over the obstacle , and Alexei jumped smartly to one side to avoid the form which sprawled in his path . |
| 17 | Lucy Lane , trying to make contact , got up and stooped over the dog , stroking his head . |
| 18 | Dyson swung left into a main road , looking over his shoulder to watch out for traffic from the right , and drove over the edge of the kerb . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It came right off the middle and sailed over the fence , but it landed short of the window , hit a railing and bounced away . |
| 21 | After about ten minutes — several riderless horses had skipped over the line by now , and another contender had cleared the last jump , and was gaining — Bumboy was finally scourged out of a series of circles and flopped over the line , home by half a length . |
| 22 | This should be spiced with a little chilli paste , and poured over the squid which you have kept just warm . |
| 23 | Teresa held her hand as they left the main building by a back door and crunched over the path to the infirmary , Anna dragging her feet . |
| 24 | Spider legs of electricity hissed and danced over the computer terminals . |
| 25 | The narrow road they were following was overhung with oak and chestnut trees , their interlaced branches letting through thin , bright shafts of light that flickered and danced over the car as it passed underneath . |
| 26 | The windowpanes rattled furiously , and spidery fingers of crepitating electricity twitched and danced over the glass once more ; again creating the illusion that the entire office block was somehow enmeshed in some monstrous spider 's web . |
| 27 | There was a rush of dark wings across the front of the Cages , and then another , as two swifts cut and raced over the Zoo sky , one moment inches from the Cages , the next chasing airborne insects on the far site of Three Island Pond . |
| 28 | I stood in a short sling and laybacked over the bulge on a jammed stone into a smooth scoop . |
| 29 | It accelerated like one of those old twentieth century water-speed record breakers and hurtled over the water ! |
| 30 | He ran up through the quarry and climbed over the gate into the field with the ewes and the new lambs , then up the side of the wood till he reached the gate into it . |