Example sentences of "[vb past] over [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I falled over on the living room .
2 And Lyon settled the issue in the 72nd minute when he crashed over at the corner for the match-clinching try .
3 Pepper was in no mood for mercy , however , and in the 58th minute he broke free from a maul , went inside Graves and , with Moon hanging on , crashed over near the post for Gregory to convert .
4 He bounded over to the chest containing the strange white powder .
5 Every half-minute or so , he peered over at the Loran navigation indicator — as if looking at it would make the numbers showing their position change more rapidly — then glanced up at the sky as if there was something to be divined in the matted darkness that could warn him of approaching doom .
6 Her eyes clouded over with the pain of the memories being allowed to surface after so many years of being ruthlessly suppressed .
7 She staggered over to the freezer , climbed on to a small stool by its side , unwrapped the packages to reveal frozen packs of my beefburgers , and placed them in the freezer , leaning over it until she was almost inside .
8 He drank water from the pitcher , then staggered over to the basin on the table and thrust his head into it , the chill water making him gasp .
9 That was the image that obsessed him : Nut , bent over across the sky , swallowing the sun , trapping Geb under her .
10 What stopped people surfing Pipeline was only in part the wave itself — not so much perpendicular as concave , bent over like the hook of a question mark or a twitching scorpion 's tail .
11 In the end , she threw her pencil across the room in frustration , then paced over to the window .
12 Isabel obeyed , watching in trepidation as he paced over to the door , then back to the fireplace .
13 She moved over to the window , staring out into the darkness .
14 He moved over to the window of his office and looked out .
15 He moved over to the window and looked out across rain-driven Wimbledon .
16 Restlessly Leith moved over to the window , but while the view from her room was quite exquisite , she saw nothing of it and could see only Naylor 's furious face as he accused her of leading Travis on .
17 He moved over to the door control panel , which now glowed red for locked .
18 Taking his time , he moved over to the door and paused .
19 It moved over to the north before it reached the camp , so that we never heard much of the thunder .
20 Ianthe moved over to the balcony and stood looking out into the noisy Roman night .
21 Her glance moved over to the phone — should she ring Ven about her car ?
22 After a bit , they moved over to the bed .
23 My mum , as mums tend to do , had divined my state of mind rather shrewdly and moved over to the bed in a thoughtful kind of way .
24 With mounting excitement which neither betrayed they moved over to the desk and peered intently at the blotter .
25 Tired of being buffeted by the eddying crowd , she moved over to the wall , where a sofa seemed to dare her to sit on it .
26 Then she moved over to the basement window and contemplated the pairs of legs striding along the pavement to work .
27 She moved over to the android and touched his arm .
28 Quickly , Marie moved over to the entrance .
29 Cross at being caught out , she moved over to the dressing-table to find some paper , then wrote down the number of her London flat .
30 She moved over to the cot and looked down at the baby .
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