Example sentences of "and [vb past] it over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tuan Ti Fo smiled and , taking a blanket , took it across and laid it over the child . |
| 2 | He took off his jacket and slung it over the back of the seat , feeling the sun warm on his neck . |
| 3 | By the time I had come downstairs and made it over the mali 's trenchworks , Balvinder had polished the bonnet so bright he could curl his moustache in the reflection . |
| 4 | I ran it behind each radiator and draped it over the pair of mounting brackets on each radiator . |
| 5 | He switched out the light , but the darkness made his skin crawl so he switched it back on , then took Sophie 's sweater from the floor and draped it over the lampshade . |
| 6 | Finally he wandered through into the kitchen , pulled off his jacket and draped it over the back of a chair . |
| 7 | He pushed her back into the room and , seizing the case , opened it and upended it over the bed . |
| 8 | He watched in horrified fascination as the lieutenant took out a single match and poised it over the striking strip . |
| 9 | ‘ These people got abusive because we would n't take their drugs so I just grabbed this bag of s*** and poured it over the floor . |
| 10 | Theodore Lawton ejected the cartridge , took another one , and fired it over the side . |
| 11 | Tolkien too might think of the Norse legend of the ‘ Undying Lands ’ , the Odáinsakr : when King Hadding reached its boundary the witch who guided him killed a cock and threw it over the wall — a moment later he heard the cock crow before he himself had to turn away and go back to mortality . |
| 12 | In the heat of the kitchen she had removed her costume jacket and hung it over the back of a nearby chair . |
| 13 | There was a rustle beside her as Gladys removed a shapeless cardigan and hung it over the back of the adjoining chair . |
| 14 | By ten-thirty , Beth had cleared away the breakfast things , washed the dishes and stacked them into the big dresser , wiped down the kitchen table , taken the coconut matting from the floor and hung it over the line outside where she beat every speck of dust from it before replacing it over her freshly scrubbed quarry tiles ; all that done she was now enjoying a cup of tea , before setting about the drawing room . |
| 15 | She removed her jacket and hung it over the hook on the kitchen door , and did the same with her hat , then warily walked into the living-room . |
| 16 | But one evening after a day 's shooting on Sergeant Ryker in 1963 , Marvin was continually baited by a drunk until Marvin grabbed a banjo from somewhere and smashed it over the other man 's head , drawing blood and knocking out his teeth . |
| 17 | The pimp took the strip and placed it over the other girl 's mouth . |
| 18 | Lee took hold of the bike and pulled it over the fence . |
| 19 | Take the weaving yarn and lay it over the alternate needles but wrap it two or three times round the blocks of three selected needles . |
| 20 | Others shipped it to Ghana and smuggled it over the border . |
| 21 | After what seemed like a good twenty minutes of this he took a handful of rice from a gourd at his belt and scattered it over the waters . |
| 22 | As quick as a flash , Mildred pulled out a lasso of rope which she had hidden in a drawer and slipped it over the astonished girl 's head and shoulders , yanking it tightly enough to bind her arms to her sides . |
| 23 | Streams transported the debris , particle by particle , and strewed it over the sea floor beyond the margins of the land . |
| 24 | He fetched water and splashed it over the twitching boy . |
| 25 | She took a pinch of snuff in her hand and sprinkled it over the note murmuring something under her breath . |
| 26 | He poured her a glass of white wine and tonic , plopped in two ice cubes and slid it over the worktop to her . |