Example sentences of "[vb past] over the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | His hands flickered over the console and brought up the weapons display . |
| 2 | Hawkins bent over the slave and examined the padlock . |
| 3 | She bent over the bed and thought at first that she was too late . |
| 4 | She felt suddenly irritable as she bent over the cot and lifted the child to her breast . |
| 5 | She let out her pent-up breath in a loud gasp of relief ; then she bent over the handlebars and sent the bike whizzing as fast as she could pedal it across the remaining hundred yards or so of field . |
| 6 | Then Holmes bent over the body and began to move it . |
| 7 | That evening , as the sun sank over the marsh and the sea an odd group gathered in the dusk . |
| 8 | Senna lost his front left wheel in the crash and both cars bounced over the kerbs and out of the race . |
| 9 | Suddenly then though her attention was taken by a red squirrel which darted from nowhere and , effortlessly it seemed , bounced over the grass and then , as if jerked up on a string , shot up a tree . |
| 10 | Meanwhile an ebullient three-year-old bounced over the people and the furniture , clamouring for conversation and met with exhausted expletives , " Shut up … get … off do n't … " |
| 11 | It swerved wildly towards the wall , bounced over the pavement and came to a stop four feet from the concrete wall . |
| 12 | Cleo exclaimed over the rooms and their appointments with delight . |
| 13 | They bumped over the potholes and stones and then Volkov reversed the car , facing the way they 'd come . |
| 14 | Most often , though , lamas were stylistically portrayed as winged hybrid creatures and may have been linked to the later goddess-spirit who presided over the home and heart , Lamaria . |
| 15 | my credulity when she wandered over the Moors and she was at death 's door , and she turned up at her cousins ' |
| 16 | Grimm shouted over the groans and shrieks , as though some responsible official might heed him . |
| 17 | Gripping the ski-poles I tried to keep myself steady as the velocity increased and then , all of a sudden I sailed over the edge and felt myself going head over heels towards a white mass of snow far below . |
| 18 | She sailed over the sands and the rocks and out towards the sea , me running , exhilarated , underneath , watching the stuck winch bob under her kicking feet . |
| 19 | The white water came over the side and carried the boy along the deck . |
| 20 | About 2 o'clock that afternoon , three Allied planes came over the coast and started to drop supplies by parachute . |
| 21 | She almost crumpled as the full rage of thunder exploded over the meadow and was still fifty yards short of the cabin when the squall hit . |
| 22 | On April 6-11 the Christian Democrats ( CD ) , the Socialists ( PSI ) , the PRI , the Democratic Socialists ( PSDI ) and the Liberals ( PLI ) negotiated over the policies and composition of a new government . |
| 23 | I felt the tears welling up in my eyes and suddenly they spilled over the sides and dripped down my cheeks . |
| 24 | While local authorities and Muslim groups in Bradford squabbled over the rights and wrongs of the matter , and the press reported with relish the ‘ grotesque ’ attitudes of Muslim parents , no one really asked the daughters what they thought about it . |
| 25 | She sighed over the poverty and squalor of the streets they had to pass through on their way out of Dublin . |
| 26 | They all shook hands with me , and the Frenchman gave me a bag containing one dozen eggs before I clambered over the wall and into the orchard . |
| 27 | I clambered over the wall and dropped on the other side and made my way quickly across the field in the direction of the cottage . |
| 28 | Whitlock clambered over the fence and landed nimbly on his feet . |
| 29 | At this signal , another fifteen men climbed over the sides and squeezed in . |
| 30 | He climbed over the refrigerators and dropped into the straw beside her . |