Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] 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 | I know my father would raise a terrific stink if I told him the Headmistress had grabbed me by the hair and slung me over the playground fence . ’ |
3 | He took off his jacket and slung it over the back of the seat , feeling the sun warm on his neck . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | I ran it behind each radiator and draped it over the pair of mounting brackets on each radiator . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Finally he wandered through into the kitchen , pulled off his jacket and draped it over the back of a chair . |
8 | Anyway , after I 'd introduced her to a few different locations and got her over the initial newness of the experience , she seemed perfectly willing to come to me . |
9 | He pushed her back into the room and , seizing the case , opened it and upended it over the bed . |
10 | Her husband lowered his paper and regarded her over the top of it . |
11 | She paused and regarded him over the top of her glass . |
12 | Worriedly judging her moment , and hoping fervently that the other two heard nothing , she slipped out behind the third man , and cracked him over the head with the cutters . |
13 | Pat was a big man and grabbed Sean and bundled him over the couch and into the laps of Mrs Kelly and Mrs Quinn who screamed blue murder . |
14 | The boys stood this for as long as was decent , and then , after a particularly heavy blow to the head , the brothers grabbed the Bosnian refugee by both feet and up-ended him over the sand . |
15 | He watched in horrified fascination as the lieutenant took out a single match and poised it over the striking strip . |
16 | ‘ 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 . |
17 | Theodore Lawton ejected the cartridge , took another one , and fired it over the side . |
18 | She had found Doreen at an early stage , and paid her over the odds to keep the house running smoothly . |
19 | So I said , ‘ How nice , thank you , ’ and handed him over the cheque . |
20 | Countries near the Rim simply loaded down the books of dead mages with leaden pentalphas and threw them over the Edge . |
21 | ‘ I just got drunk and threw them over the wall . ’ |
22 | 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 . |
23 | In 1223 Richard was once again in the retinue of William Marshal and followed him over the next few years into Wales , Ireland , and Brittany . |
24 | Filmer , extremely smooth in a dark suit and grey tie , solicitously removed Daffodil 's chinchillas and hung them over the back of her chair . |
25 | In the heat of the kitchen she had removed her costume jacket and hung it over the back of a nearby chair . |
26 | There was a rustle beside her as Gladys removed a shapeless cardigan and hung it over the back of the adjoining chair . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | She sipped her coffee and watched him over the rim of the cup . |
30 | Alexander sipped his drink and watched her over the rim of his glass as he continued . |