Example sentences of "as they [verb] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why then do their minds go blank as soon as they turn over the question paper ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | These worms have large buccal capsules and feed by ingestion of plugs of mucosa as they move over the surface of the intestine . |
| 6 | Not so long as they handed over the pound notes — though smiling Clyde took most of those , the greedy sod . |
| 7 | Black silhouettes move out of the darkness and change into blunt torpedoes , dark and slow-moving as they glide over the sandy bottom . |