Example sentences of "and [verb] over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've put Mr Trumper 's things in the bedroom and checked over the flat . |
| 2 | After 1998 , these figures start being ‘ phased down ’ by ½ per cent a year , so that anyone retiring after the year 2008 gets only 20 per cent ( one fifth ) of their relevant earnings , after they have been revalued and averaged over the whole of the working life . |
| 3 | If the lamp is adjusted , by a circular knob set into the side , the purple glow can be made much brighter and plays over the mutant . |
| 4 | a fiery fellow ( the salamander was popularly supposed to be able to live in fire ) ; also , a circular iron plate which is heated and placed over a pudding or other dish to brown it ( OED ) . |
| 5 | An interesting effect can be obtained by brushing a few strokes of water onto the paper and drawing over the top . |
| 6 | An interesting effect can be obtained by brushing a few strokes of water onto the paper and drawing over the top . |
| 7 | There was a railed-off space on top of the cabins which served as a kind of open-air lounge , sufficiently high to allow passengers both to enjoy the breeze and to see over the bank . |
| 8 | Fat couples in vacation plaids , bouncing about like toddlers in the low g and cooing over the moondirt souvenir jewellery . |
| 9 | Half-way along it , Ember whipped round to yell , ‘ Go , Jez ! ’ and vaulted over the hand-rail . |
| 10 | The man burst into the Alpine Cafe in Marine Drive , Southport , and vaulted over the counter to snatch £90 in cash . |
| 11 | Police issued the photofit of a man who burst into the Alpine Cafe in Marine Drive , Southport , and vaulted over the counter . |
| 12 | The fog lay upon the river and swirled over the bridge . |
| 13 | Once Dandelion struck the smell of a stoat and they all joined him , whispering and sniffing over the ground . |
| 14 | 20ft seas were running into the entrance and crashing over the sea walls and visibility was virtually non-existent in the rain , spume and spray . |
| 15 | The message Macedo carried to the villages — most of them accessible only by boat or along tortuous jungle trails and scattered over an area larger than England — was that the forest 's people should , in uniting , take control of their own destiny . |
| 16 | Chunks of blue-green stuff flaked off and scattered over the floor . |
| 17 | ‘ The average number of vehicles passed through the shops for repairs annually is 8,100 … . there are 3,200 employed at Wolverton , while outside we have 2,000 at Crewe , Carlisle and Willesden , and scattered over the line ’ . |
| 18 | If , as suggested above , he faced considerable initial hostility , and presided over a government which some churchmen found oppressive , religion could have been one way in which opposition was expressed . |
| 19 | In 1955 , Floirat bought the ailing radio station Europe 1 and presided over the company for 30 years , transforming it into one of the country 's most popular stations . |
| 20 | From 1965 to 1970 Rowiecki also served as musical director of the Theatr Wielki , Warsaw 's huge opera and ballet theatre , and presided over the opening performance of the reconstructed building in 1965 , conducting Moniuszko 's Straszny Dwor ( ' The Haunted House' , a characteristically Polish mix of folklore and Bellinian melody ) . |
| 21 | Izanami henceforth became the Earth Mother , the prime goddess of Shinto , and presided over the Underworld . |
| 22 | Under the 1961 Constitution executive power is vested in the President , who appoints and presides over a Council of Ministers . |
| 23 | The administration consists of an executive President who is directly elected by universal adult suffrage for a five-year term , and who appoints and presides over a Council of Ministers . |
| 24 | The Constitution provides for an executive President who is directly elected by universal suffrage for a five-year term , and who appoints and presides over a Council of Ministers . |
| 25 | The President appoints and presides over the Council of Ministers . |
| 26 | The President appoints and presides over the Council of Ministers . |
| 27 | The President , assisted by two Vice-Presidents ( or , in extraordinary circumstances , one Vice-President ) appoints and presides over the Cabinet . |
| 28 | Turns and twindles over the broth |
| 29 | I was looking for drugs and walking over the aerosol cans . |
| 30 | GUIL stands up and looks over the audience . ) |