Example sentences of "she [verb] over a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | Here , taking a milk measure from a marble slab , she bent over a big brown earthenware jar , took off the wooden lid , dipped in the measure and scooped up some clean water , which she handed to the child , saying , ‘ Drink that . ’ |
| 3 | She handed over a small metal cylinder . |
| 4 | Within moments I had decided to strip her to her expensive banker 's underclothing , lash her to a Quattrocento day-bed with fur-lined leather manacles , and whip her with unimaginable delicacy until she handed over a full power of attorney and yielded herself totally in a frenzy of self-abnegation . |
| 5 | She handed over a pink-tissued shape dripping with silver bows and gaudy ribbons . |
| 6 | She used to walk with two sticks , but fell down at her 90th birthday party when she stumbled over a low table and broke her hip again . |
| 7 | Jenna came back to the present rapidly and painfully as she tripped over a fallen and partially sunken log . |
| 8 | She had not walked a hundred metres before she tripped over a loose stone and went crashing over a steep overhang . |
| 9 | He held out the clipboard impatiently as if she quibbled over a minor detail . |
| 10 | She stood over a great , three-legged cooking pot , but the stew she was pounding with a pole was not for eating : it was the monthly wash . |