Example sentences of "[vb past] over the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dyson bent over the engine again . |
| 2 | He bent over the bed once again . |
| 3 | Huy bent over the body silently . |
| 4 | Bare granite peaks towered over the south all day and the pools and falls seemed to grow bigger and better every mile . |
| 5 | The speech came over the wires so late and the sheets were so confused by the Post Office — which is usual in these cases — that without the precis we could not possibly have got the leader through in time for the first edition . |
| 6 | He dug a hole , but he had dug only a little of it when Frith came over the hill alone . |
| 7 | They came as a lightning surprise to them when two hundred American planes came over the city clearly visible in the cloudless sky , the Italians kept separating in two camps because of fascist and non- fascist fleet ran around frantically trying to get fog machines working , trying to obscure the target but the fog prevented warships in the harbour for putting up an effective anti-aircraft barrage . |
| 8 | However , his scrap with brother Joey enthralled the crowd and at the finish they came over the line almost together . |
| 9 | Relations with Ukraine and Moldova further deteriorated over the weekend after a visit to Russian strongholds in both republics by Mr Alexander Rutskoy , Russia 's Vice-President . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I clambered over the rubble where I thought it was safe to do so , and got one piece of the great white pulpit , and the last page of the Bible I knew had been used by Dr Thomas Chalmers before his mission to New Guinea . |
| 12 | Garvey was so drunk when he got back to the pageant that he knocked over the ladder twice before opening the trapdoor . |
| 13 | He craned over the balcony again , but finally he seemed to sigh . |
| 14 | They took one look at him and scampered over the fence as quickly as rats over the timbers of a sinking ship . |
| 15 | The gunships swooped over the city shortly after 4am and bombed ammunition stores and a radio station belonging to the main Mogadishu warlord Mohamed Farah Aideed . |
| 16 | She stayed in the chair as dusk crept over the garden below , too physically and mentally tired to move . |
| 17 | He took a packet of chewing gum out of his pocket , and peeled off the wrapping ; it slipped out of his fingers , and fell over the barrier on to the seats below . |
| 18 | Carson stepped out on to the terrace and looked over the rail again . |
| 19 | Holding the red Conway Stewart pen she had picked up from the grass , she went over the scene again and again . |
| 20 | ‘ YOU really went over the top today , Charlie , ’ grinned the Captain to the Old Stager as they reassembled for the match . |
| 21 | ‘ What , so you 'd be sick as a parrot if we went over the moon together ? ’ |
| 22 | The plan was basically simple , but they went over the details again and again until mutual satisfaction prevailed . |
| 23 | ‘ I figure he went over the fence here , ’ said Prentice when we were outside in the rain once more . |
| 24 | er , it , it , it 's er , it more or less finished , er when you went over the bridge like . |
| 25 | A He111 appeared over the Fleet soon after the Hurricanes had departed and this was chased by the Fulmar patrol but managed to evade them and escape . |