Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Just place as many tiers as you need over a pan of simmering water of in the wok , and bingo ! |
| 3 | Jenna came back to the present rapidly and painfully as she tripped over a fallen and partially sunken log . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Lindsey smiled sympathetically as she handed over a prescription . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They were just there , suddenly , as we came over a hill and saw a river below us . |
| 9 | Just as we stepped over a rise , we nearly fell over the boy racer and party having their lunch . |
| 10 | As we stumbled over a greasy corduroy track , rhododendron branches reached eerily out of the greyness . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've had enough ! ’ he screamed as they fought over a table . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It 'll be all hands on deck from now on , ’ Moran told the girls as they sat over a late breakfast . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Haw — ha — ha — ’ he gasped , putting one hand on another pump to steady himself as he bent over a little and looked at his feet , the other hand on a knee , his chest heaving . |