Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is quite a lot of activity as I come over the hill . |
| 2 | as I puzzle over the Manchester street-plan , |
| 3 | A further way of avoiding too much time in the air is to lift the back foot as you go over a wave , this helps to stop the nose lifting . |
| 4 | As you go over the pass the path descends the side of Sail Beck to Buttermere ( 2.75 miles ) . |
| 5 | Avoid being involved in a protest at all costs since , not only does it risk a disqualification , but it also ruins your concentration as you ponder over the incident . |
| 6 | Just place as many tiers as you need over a pan of simmering water of in the wok , and bingo ! |
| 7 | Jenna came back to the present rapidly and painfully as she tripped over a fallen and partially sunken log . |
| 8 | As she sat over a pot of tea in a quiet café she reminded herself that it was really expecting too much to find a flat as quickly as she had landed a job . |
| 9 | Lindsey smiled sympathetically as she handed over a prescription . |
| 10 | No — that would be too much to expect , she decided with a pang of misery that made her blink as she turned over the food . |
| 11 | ‘ We had a photographer here , once , from a colour supplement , ’ Finn told Melanie one morning as she exclaimed over a fresh assortment of jumping-jacks ( soldiers in red jackets , each sporting a row of meticulously painted medals ) that they were too good for children . |
| 12 | In the first incident McConville , of Lurgan Road , Aghagallon , rubbed his hands up and down her sides as she bent over a dishwasher in the kitchen . |
| 13 | They were just there , suddenly , as we came over a hill and saw a river below us . |
| 14 | Just as we stepped over a rise , we nearly fell over the boy racer and party having their lunch . |
| 15 | The fighting in our immediate area seemed to have quietened down as we handed over the prisoners to join , I would think , about a couple of hundred , all gathered together in a field close to the orchard . |
| 16 | As we stumbled over a greasy corduroy track , rhododendron branches reached eerily out of the greyness . |
| 17 | She listened for Patrick 's cry but the only noise was from the Kenny children as they squabbled over a piece of bread , and Maggie was sitting on the bed with the baby sucking in vain at her scrawny breast . |
| 18 | Every hill-walker dreams of seeing a wildlife drama unfold in front of them as they peer over a crag , hoping that the next rise will reveal an osprey fighting off a wildcat which it returned to find attacking the nest , forcing the great bird to drop its intended dinner , a pine marten , which runs for its life , stopping only to catch and eat a grounded , flapping , pipistrelle bat . |
| 19 | Why then do their minds go blank as soon as they turn over the question paper ? |
| 20 | ‘ I 've had enough ! ’ he screamed as they fought over a table . |
| 21 | The sudden roar as they sweep over the horizon is part of life in this otherwise quiet stretch of countryside-often alarming enough to send children into bursts of frightened tears . |
| 22 | The exterior surface of most ammonoids is covered with ribbing — dense on some species , sparse on others — the ribs often split into two or more smaller ribs as they pass over the back of the whorls . |
| 23 | Jimmy Jessop , the glaciation expert , who is a skilled pickpocket , undoes the back buttons of Neil 's braces as they lean over a diagram together , until Neil loses his temper , and chases Jimmy round the office , shouting that he is going to bloody kill him . |
| 24 | It 'll be all hands on deck from now on , ’ Moran told the girls as they sat over a late breakfast . |
| 25 | This pattern is made not only by the dancers ' feet as they move over the surface but also by the dancers ' bodies as they move through space . |
| 26 | These worms have large buccal capsules and feed by ingestion of plugs of mucosa as they move over the surface of the intestine . |
| 27 | Not so long as they handed over the pound notes — though smiling Clyde took most of those , the greedy sod . |
| 28 | Black silhouettes move out of the darkness and change into blunt torpedoes , dark and slow-moving as they glide over the sandy bottom . |
| 29 | Their common aim is to help introduce a more just and democratic society ; to bring into being the social transformation that was announced by the government as it took over the leadership of the newly independent Zimbabwe in 1980 . |
| 30 | As it passes over a toll point in the road ( essentially a wire loop buried in the surface ) a radio beam from the loop will interrogate the number plate and feed back the vehicle number to a central computer . |