Example sentences of "[adv prt] over the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaning in over the sleeping child I must have wanted to see myself as the angel , hovering in protection of an infant who was so obviously in peril . |
| 2 | He became aware of the disapproving looks his noisy party were receiving from some of the older locals who had drifted in over the last hour . |
| 3 | Certainly not the army of supporters who 've been painting , odd-jobbing and generally mucking in over the past week . |
| 4 | The plaudits have been pouring in over the past weeks , as the following reports show . |
| 5 | You add up all the bills you know will come in over the next year — plus a bit more for contingencies — and divide by twelve . |
| 6 | The free edge of the epidermis has clearly moved in over the marked wound mesenchyme , leaving less than 10% of it exposed by this stage . |
| 7 | Man shuffled along over the cold floors , some dressed in grey prison-issue pyjamas , others bare-chested or in boxer shorts . |
| 8 | politically , too , despite tensions over Berlin and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 , the furore over the U2 incident when an American reconnaissance plane was shot down over the Soviet Union , and the shock of the Soviet lead in space exploration and technology , tensions between the two superpowers had not returned to the glacial levels of a decade earlier . |
| 9 | They looked large against the light pouring down over the flat land . |
| 10 | The feathers of its tail , shiny strips of shot-silk in blue , black , green and russet , drooped down over the dark folds of Kalchu 's sleeve . |
| 11 | It was Lavinia who had supported him every step of the way , kept him upright at the graveside , yet within a month she , too , was alone , her husband shot down over the Western Front . |
| 12 | Nevertheless he seemed willing enough to accompany the Finnish detective in the dangerous climb down over the tumbling rocks to where his cousin and his cousin 's pretty , peroxided fiancée lay . |
| 13 | The Government 's principal task in the months to come will be to restore the right mix of monetary and fiscal policy — now badly out of balance — so that interest rates have a better chance of coming down , and staying down over the long run . |
| 14 | Reaching out , Vitor touched a honey-coloured strand of hair which had tumbled from her topknot to curl down over the exposed nape of her neck . |
| 15 | Doggedly she kept her head down over the jewel-coloured designs , trying to concentrate , but after another few seconds she gave up and laid down her pen with elaborate resignation . |
| 16 | Stepping back , Curtis waited till the racking coughing fit ended in a sudden gush of bright red blood , which spilled down over the dying killer 's slack lower jaw . |
| 17 | If your weight has gone up and down over the last year ( or ten years ! ) try to remember when and why it was up or down . |
| 18 | Andy licked his fingers and started to stroke them up and down over the purple bulge of his cock . |
| 19 | The Swiss pair sped down over the Third Ice Field , zoomed out from the sheer rockface beneath it and landed with a crunch on the Second Ice Field ; then , as limbs were torn from their bodies , they launched again off the cliff , landed on the First Ice Field , and again careened down the slope and zoomed out and down . |
| 20 | They 've grown fat on gold , not the Garrimperos They 're a strong political lobby and would never allow business to close down over the little matter of mercury . |
| 21 | Putting his hands on her shoulders , he drew them slowly down over the full curves , feeling , weighing , drawing a fingertip across the tightening nipples . |
| 22 | He could hear her barking and looked down over the steep side of the embankment to the bottom of the trees . |
| 23 | A row erupted at a council meeting over the issue this when Sefton 's chief executive Graham Haywood urged councillors to back down over the strict conditions . |
| 24 | He let the tip of his tongue traverse the valley between her breasts , and continue down over the sensitive midriff to the taut hollow of her belly . |
| 25 | He reached into the drawer beneath the table and drew out the transparent template , then laid it down over the shaded area . |
| 26 | Climbing up on to a high bastion , I looked down over the shimmering interior of the fort and thought of the words that must once have been a set text for the cavalrymen stationed here : |
| 27 | The path here can be very wet , but planks have been laid down over the worst parts . |
| 28 | The top half of it slides down over the bottom half so that it can be lowered right down to table-top level when a debate is going on and a speaker is sitting down . |
| 29 | And even if Nigel Lawson contains inflation and brings interest rates down over the next year , Labour will be able to remind voters ‘ Do n't forget ’ . |
| 30 | His soapy hands slipped possessively over her quivering body , pausing to sensually caress the hard , swollen peaks of her breasts before trailing a slow , scorching path down over her slim waist , and on down … down over the soft swell of her hips . |