Example sentences of "[that] [vb past] over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they set off she realized they were n't driving back towards the restaurants of the town centre and Willi 's beloved Franz Joseph hotel , but up to the mountain road that led over the pass and into the next valley . |
| 2 | Discreetly sited cameras and sound equipment recorded all that occurred over the counter . |
| 3 | Cameras and sound recording equipment were discreetly sited in the shop so as to record all that occurred over the counter . |
| 4 | However , she gave no sign of having been aware of its presence , and watched with interest while he pointed to a red line that wandered over the map . |
| 5 | Her nerves were not smoothed by two mistimed drives that sailed over the side walls , hurtled under the bleachers and were lost from sight . |
| 6 | The little Austers removed a significant amount of the in-flight workload imposed on the Lincoln navigators , however the frequent rain squalls that came over the jungle limited their use and as such the heavy bomber crews had to carry out operations with the required precision in dangerously adverse weather conditions . |
| 7 | He would never forget the great dust cloud that climbed over the reactor shell , broken like a duck 's egg , after the jets had soared away into the June evening . |
| 8 | I 'd also write down everything important that happened over the years , so that students of history would come to me for help . |
| 9 | He had a beer belly that hung over the top of his filthy jeans . |
| 10 | Ruth grinned at him as he sat down at a cane table , making sure he was under the bright green awning that hung over the balcony and not a sliver of sun was on the bare parts of his body . |
| 11 | He had pulled her down with him into the whirlpool of love , and now that she was submerged and drowning he had left her , escaping through the cloaking mist that hung over the water . |
| 12 | I had been to see it years before in a taxi from Roscrea , and had been greatly impressed by the poignant air of haunted melancholy that hung over the ruins . |
| 13 | It felt hollow now , lacking a centre , the fixed point had gone , only the outer shell was reflected in the mirror that hung over the sideboard , while the slices of cold meat curled on the plate that Martha had left for him . |
| 14 | The bomb-bursts could be seen through the huge pall of smoke and dust that hung over the city . |
| 15 | Emily stood up and stared at her reflection in the ornate mirror that hung over the fireplace . |
| 16 | When he had gone , she stood for a long time in front of the looking-glass that hung over the fire , her hands pressed to her cheeks , her face quite alive with excitement . |
| 17 | It was the same banner that flew over the columns of marching men converging on the Women ‘ s Battalion guarding the Provisional Government in St Petersburg … the same banner that was raised in front of the crowds surging into George Square in Glasgow . |
| 18 | With the companionway protected from the wind , only the waves that broke over the cabin top burst into the saloon . |
| 19 | ‘ I can clearly remember that night , the hush that fell over the audience after the first song . |
| 20 | Grandmother lived there in a house that looked over the water , but she 's dead now . ’ |
| 21 | The third wall was lined entirely with books , and the wall that looked over the garden was not a wall but a window , heavily shrouded with curtains of different fabrics and densities . |
| 22 | Standing at the window that looked over the grounds , she thought back over her short stay here in the house , tried to see how it might have been different — and then gave a wry , sad little smile . |
| 23 | On the first occasion I had been down to visit an isolated village , on the south face of Kala Agar ridge , that had been abandoned the previous year owing to the depredations of the man-eater , and on the way back had taken a cattle track that went over the ridge and down the far side to the forest road , when , approaching a pile of rocks , I suddenly felt there was danger ahead . |
| 24 | That 's when he actually got into the ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ period and when the show extended a bit more into the theatrical — more props with street scenes , a huge lift chair that went over the audience , and things like that . |
| 25 | The geese arrived with a bow wave that surged over the nomes ' feet , and arched their necks down towards Shrub . |
| 26 | We 're going mainly for wild water buffalo , banteng and seladang , " said the senator , his resonant Southern drawl sounding loud in the stillness that lay over the river . |
| 27 | She looked round quickly , yelped and leaped off the table , grabbing a wrap that lay over the arm of a chair . |
| 28 | At first-floor level , the volume of the main block allowed the inclusion of a large stair hall , kitchen/breakfast-room and dining-room en suite with a ‘ gazebo ’ formed from the original outshot that projected over the waterwheel . |
| 29 | Many surviving pilots recall the fierce air battles that ensued over the Pacific Ocean . |
| 30 | Daly promptly hit a shot that carried over the 65ft high netting 280 yards away , the wall that divides the West Berlin that is Augusta National from the East Berlin of Washington Drive , with its mile after mile of burger joints . |