Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as they were puzzling over the next move the man rang back to tell them that they were on a wild goose chase . |
| 2 | They were walking over the deep sun-baked mud-tracks of the lane and you had to watch where you put your feet if you did n't want to twist your ankle . |
| 3 | The three men were walking over the top paddock . |
| 4 | Already the first squadrons of sepoy cavalry were swooping over the abandoned ramparts and racing for the Cutcherry to kick away just a few inches of that thin trickle of grey powder before it burnt its way home . |
| 5 | ‘ People asked me and Derrick what we were doing over the past two years and the answer that I want to give is that we were waiting for everybody to catch up . |
| 6 | But established towns too were advancing over the surrounding fields . |
| 7 | They were sweeping over the ancient continent of Africa , the everlasting wastelands of the desert no more than a patch on a great patchwork quilt . |
| 8 | Her fingers were sliding over the satiny warmth of her skin , and in a sweet intimate flash of reminder , or of warning , her body ( her secret breathing body which she ignored for nearly all of her time , trying to forget it ) came to life and spoke to her . |
| 9 | ‘ What is it ? ’ he answered , standing , looking across to where the captain was kneeling over the fallen man . |
| 10 | " One day a neighbour opposite came to tell me my little boa was hanging over the other side of the railings on our landing . |
| 11 | She was hanging over the wrought-iron balcony above the gardens , pointing to the pink and white marquees flapping gently in the breeze like grounded hot-air balloons . |
| 12 | Marco was stepping over the spasming limb as if the robot was n't there . |
| 13 | I was sailing the Pacific , or a character in a surrealist painting ; often I was walking over the red shale past one football pitch after another , with goal-posts stretching as far as the eye could see , like white crosses over the fields of Arnhem . |
| 14 | I felt a touch of the sinister that rules so many of the islands ; there was no reason to shiver in that warm spot , but I did , and experienced a slight sense of embarrassment , as though I had been intruding , thinking perhaps not of Tiare but of the great love all those years ago which had produced her : forty years ago when the water was cascading over the same cliff in just the same way as it had today , Princess Tiare 's mother and her lover had bathed in the same secret pool and later , perhaps , made love in the cave behind . |
| 15 | We arrived at an other dam around noon ; water was rushing over the huge rocks and it was too risky to try to paddle across so the canoes were lined across . |
| 16 | On a previous occasion , when he was flying over the stricken HMS SHEFFIELD , nine-tenths of his negatives had been removed . |
| 17 | And now a subtle change was coming over the two hundred and fifty watching children in the audience . |
| 18 | He wants to appeal to anyone who knows what Mr Garvey was doing over the 4 days to contact the police . |
| 19 | The unmistakable shape of a turkey vulture was soaring over the rocky ridge below which the jumbled boulders of the mysterious ‘ stone runs ’ flowed in great ‘ rivers ’ down the hillsides and out on to almost level ground . |
| 20 | He asked the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff if he should pull out the Ariadne which they knew , of course , was sitting over the crashed plane . |
| 21 | Mrs Fletcher was bending over the last of a bed of weeds , hoping finally to rid herself of them before her husband returned from the potato harvesting . |
| 22 | He had moved the table under the direct light from the window , and was bending over the tough , cross-grained wood and the awkward knife with knit brows , breathing heavily . |
| 23 | The stench grew worse , making her gag , but it was not until Isabel was standing over the motionless form that she realised why . |
| 24 | He was standing over the reeking individual now , peering close to get a look at the face . |
| 25 | The light from the half-dozen candles was flickering over the glossy surface of the azulejos — the traditional blue and white tiles which , in Portugal , covered the walls of palaces and cottages alike . |
| 26 | Uneasily , Montgomery felt that his hand was hovering over the proverbial can of worms ; remove the lid and there they would be , writhing in a tortuous , slimy , unholy mass . |
| 27 | By Easter Eva was presiding over the annual weekend houseparty of the nurses ' fellowship . |
| 28 | He had got restlessly to his feet and was leaning over the green wooden railing that came to waist height at the edge of the veranda , but after a suppressed exclamation he wheeled to face his sister again . |
| 29 | A vast bank of black cloud was mounting over the eastern horizon and advancing rapidly to bring the next downpour . |