Example sentences of "over [conj] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should you not suspend the sitting until there is someone on the Tory Benches who is capable of walking over and picking up the notes to the Minister ? |
| 2 | Transferring my gun to my left hand , I reach over and turn off the grill . |
| 3 | Colonel Feather had then expressed a worry that children could easily reach over and scoop up a fingerful of frosting , perhaps spoiling someone 's chances , so he and Mr Doran — the latter complaining mightily about his lumbago — had moved the cakes to the back of the table . |
| 4 | As a result , the Committee met on the 3rd tee in December and finally decided to raise it a foot all over and to put up a viewing platform on the right hand side . |
| 5 | Aware of their vanity and dread of baldness , he would reach over and lift up a lock of hair , saying , ‘ A little more brain showing today ? ’ |
| 6 | Suppose that I am sitting by a bowl of fruit ; my hand hovers over a pear , then a peach catches my eye ; their distinctive favours revive in memory and pull against each other , then my hand moves over and picks out the peach . |
| 7 | She reached over and turned out the light , sick with disappointment to find she was no wiser about her identity than the night before . |
| 8 | Brenda put her hand over and pulled back the bar that held the gate shut . |
| 9 | He clambered over and pulled off the covering so quickly her hair bushed out like a halo . |
| 10 | Sam came over and picked up the bat . |
| 11 | However , Ell moved quickly over and picked up the raw meat . |
| 12 | He walked over and picked up the pewter goblet , sniffing at it carefully . |
| 13 | Smoothing down her skirt as she seated herself , she reached over and started up the secondary computer . |
| 14 | He bent over and prised out the dagger embedded deep between Oswald 's shoulder blades . |