Example sentences of "a [noun] [v-ing] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could have been plummeting down to the centre of the earth , in a submarine nudging over the seabed or flying soundlessly through outer space . |
| 2 | As Coleman discovered later , it was not uncommon for the Justice Department to leave a case dangling over the head of a former government employee whom it wished to intimidate . |
| 3 | As a final thought , I think it would be worth Leeds 's while to have a scout looking over the US collegiate system . |
| 4 | Oh , a digger going over the bridge , look . |
| 5 | And , no doubt , with the new laws speeding up the game , with the necessity of adding further to the burdens of training if the Irish are to catch up , there must be a question-mark hovering over the commitment of the more talented to the increased strains they will be asked to bear . |
| 6 | A child leaning over the edge of a precipice . |
| 7 | A row erupted at a council meeting over the issue this when Sefton 's chief executive Graham Haywood urged councillors to back down over the strict conditions . |
| 8 | Prince Dara amidst his squadron appeared like a crystal tower , resplendent as a sun shining over the land . |
| 9 | Willi led her into a huge living-room with a window looking over the valley . |
| 10 | Carp are not a true shoal fish like most other coarse fish , vet you may see several fish in a group feeding over the same area . |
| 11 | What I 'd suddenly recalled was a picture hanging over the altar in the caravan ; this in turn had reminded me of one of the statues over the south porch of the Cathedral . |
| 12 | Have ready a piece of butter muslin wrung out in warm water , doubled , and laid in a sieve standing over the bowl or deep wide jar in which the butter is to be stored . |
| 13 | Hands linked behind her head , she lay for a while thinking over the extraordinary events of the day . |
| 14 | One per over per batsman is the ration , with a bouncer being defined as a ball passing over the batsman 's shoulder as he stands upright at the crease . |
| 15 | A similar effect is used in another part with a ball swinging over the screen . |
| 16 | Pat Ayers quotes one of those same street people : ‘ Just say you were standing on the corner , now if you had seen a policeman coming over the bridge … you automatically moved . |
| 17 | To a beetle crawling over the surface there is no edge or boundary , but there is only a finite number of pebbles . |
| 18 | Juanita Garcias , who was twenty five and from France , was a passenger in the lorry which came to a stop hanging over the edge of the bridge on the M-forty near Aynho . |
| 19 | Here houses looked to me like Monopoly chips : seeing a man cycling over the pathless tundra I scanned hopelessly for a possible point of reference he might have . |
| 20 | There was a man standing over the patient looking down at the face completely encased in bandages . |
| 21 | As they walked back to the clubhouse with the Vice-Captain , conversation was made difficult by the roar and whirr of a helicopter hovering over the field behind . |
| 22 | Suddenly its noise was distinct and loud like a tractor coming over the western horizon . |
| 23 | The door opened , and her presentiments were realised as someone moved stealthily across the carpeted floor , the narrow beam of a torch flitting over the low couch and the bureau set against the far wall . |
| 24 | There 's a cloth hanging over the fireplace . ’ |
| 25 | Then he saw the gravel embedded in the tar and watched a spider running over the surface . |
| 26 | And it was hot , the humidity very high with a miasma hanging over the buildings as though the clouds were so heavy with moisture they needed to rest themselves on terra firma . |
| 27 | There must be a cloud passing over the sun , Lee thought . |
| 28 | One arc-lamp burned in the middle of the room , sending a gleam spluttering over the accumulated apparatus of the laboratory . |
| 29 | Different selections of equipment will encourage children to experiment in different ways , and a plank resting over the tray will make a level surface on which to stand containers to be filled . |
| 30 | Khrushchev lavished banquets , ballets and banter on him and took him tobogganing — then , with mysterious abruptness , withdrew his favours and gave the British a public drubbing over the Suez adventure and the Berlin question , where he was demanding the evacuation of allied troops . |