Example sentences of "[adv prt] and over the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The square , window-type frame gives practice with moving in and out as well as up , down and over the top of , and there is experience of being enclosed within a three-dimensional shape . |
| 2 | Desperate to charge our batteries , we linger as long as we dare before racing off down and over the glacier , through the boulders , and onto the base-camp grass . |
| 3 | New copper washers under the dome fixing nuts appears to have cured them but a new ‘ 0 ’ ring on the breather seat still allows the oil to pass through and over the engine . |
| 4 | Gibbons communicate and hold territories by means of loud hooting voices that carry through and over the forest canopy . |
| 5 | He had been wakeful all night , gnawing over and over the tangle of his doubts and fears , and unable to worry his way through them to any certain hope . |
| 6 | Dave talked right on and over the start of the lyric , and then made it worse by trying to pretend that his mistake was intentional . |
| 7 | Very gently the two women drew the light quilt away , sliding it from under the arm of the sleeper , drawing it down at both sides , peeling it off and over the end of the bed . |
| 8 | He lumbered into the back of the truck , pulling himself up and over the tailboard . |
| 9 | Headed back up by to , hook ball , looking for , gets his head underneath and it 's just over the top of the bar , he got the full force of his head beneath that ball and it looped up and over the top of er an anxious looking Paul crossbar . |
| 10 | Move your hands to the forehead and smoothly stroke the brow , hand-over-hand up and over the hair to the crown of the head . |
| 11 | Oncoming bikers seemed intent on taking the short cut up and over the Aussie 's Nissan . |
| 12 | There are infrared-sensing security lights on the wall of the house and if they go on then the whole thing 's off ; I 'm up and over the wall and back into the woods and away . |
| 13 | You could spend weeks pedalling up and over the North York Moors , but if you 've only got a weekend to spare , then the Rosedale area is without doubt the place to go . |
| 14 | Sunlight reflected from a window among the palm trees to lance a sliver of dazzling light at our cockpit , then the reflection was gone and we were at sea level , engines screaming , and I fumbled for the camera , prayed it had not broken when it fell from the ceiling , and took another picture just before Maggot lifted the aircraft 's nose so that we swooped up and over the palm trees that edged the beach . |
| 15 | Until we drove up and over the Atlas , I had not thought for years about our time in London . |
| 16 | He could see small fields , woods and a lake up there , and from the lake a river spilled out and over the edge … |
| 17 | ‘ I thought he 'd saved it at first and was turning to run back to defend when it popped out and over the line . |
| 18 | Roll it out on a board , dusted with a little icing sugar , to a rough triangle large enough to wrap around and over the top of the cake . |
| 19 | Peel and slice onion into semi-circles , then scatter it under and over the cheese on its toast . |
| 20 | A variation that we used to do , but which takes a little practice to get right , is to cut an elastic band , hold one end with your thumb or finger tip just below the implant , reach round the back with the other hand , stretch the elastic and , keeping it stretched , bring the end round and over the section under your thumb , grip it in the same way , pass round again and over the starting point . |
| 21 | The sun grew golden and weak , dew formed on the grass by the benches in front of the Cages , and great clouds of starlings squealed out of empty evening skies and formed and re-formed and grouped yet again round and over the Zoo . |