Example sentences of "and [vb pp] 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 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | Half-way along it , Ember whipped round to yell , ‘ Go , Jez ! ’ and vaulted over the hand-rail . |
| 4 | The man burst into the Alpine Cafe in Marine Drive , Southport , and vaulted over the counter to snatch £90 in cash . |
| 5 | Police issued the photofit of a man who burst into the Alpine Cafe in Marine Drive , Southport , and vaulted over the counter . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Chunks of blue-green stuff flaked off and scattered over the floor . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 9 | To give a suitably ‘ thick ’ appearance to the painted plaster surface applied over the new brickwork of the chimney , ‘ Sirapite ’ plaster was mixed with wallpaper paste and smeared over the overprecise profiles of the new work . |
| 10 | ‘ If Alain was murdered and pushed over the edge the way I figured , then it could easily have been torn off . |
| 11 | The Prosecution alleges that it was here , on a night in November two years ago that Pauline Leyshon and her boyfriend Ivor Stokle were bundled into a car which was then set alight and pushed over the edge of the hill . |
| 12 | There the court heard they were forced into a car which was set alight and pushed over the edge . |
| 13 | And crawled over the edge of the dish and slid down into the mushy stuff . |
| 14 | A large map , or picture , was unrolled and hung over the blackboard . |
| 15 | Aunt Margaret tucked up Victoria and hung over the cot for a long minute as though she would have liked to sing her a lullaby . |
| 16 | It is one of those inexplicable events that a rabbit hole in the middle of a field can be gassed and its population exterminated , the hole filled in and cultivated over the top , yet , even after the passage of a number of years , a rabbit will go to that exact location and restore the old system . |
| 17 | The cloth is liberally soaked and wiped over the surface in a smooth sweeping motion . |
| 18 | On encoffining , the hood would be unfolded and drawn over the face , the top sheet turned up and tucked in around the neck , if not higher . |
| 19 | The projects will be supported and supervised over the summer months by staff of the Enterprise Centre . |
| 20 | We have shown that these word matches occur so frequently that competing hypotheses can not be pursued and compared over the length of the entire utterance . |
| 21 | She walked across and bent over the girl . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , God , why do n't people learn from other people 's mistakes ? ’ the big man muttered , and bent over the child . |
| 23 | She watched him through her fingers as he went down the garden and bent over the hole . |
| 24 | Bragg pushed his way through and bent over the body . |
| 25 | He took the candle from the table and bent over the fireplace , setting the twigs ablaze . |
| 26 | It 's light , comfortable , and worn over a T-shirt , or even next to the skin , warm enough for the Scottish summer without making you sweat to death . |
| 27 | And his foreman makes sure the containers are loaded onto the trucks and dumped over the border . |
| 28 | Each had a feather-plumed bonnet and the filabeg , the small plaid , heavy wool an arm 's length wide and four arm-spans long , pleated and belted at the waist , the free end swung up and pinned over the shoulder of his saffron-dyed shirt . |
| 29 | The prosecution 's only witness on the main charge that Beattie had convened and presided over a meeting of UDA officers to plan the murders was an anonymous Special Branch detective who claimed to be reporting evidence of a paid , anonymous informer . |
| 30 | Above that a heavy mantle is wrapped all round the body and brought over the head . |