Example sentences of "crouched over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The shout of ‘ Freeze ’ from the door and the sight of the big crew-cut man crouched over a Colt.45 aimed straight at his chest caused the burly man to stop . |
| 2 | He looked around from force of habit , but the spooks from the Mukhabarat were too disorganized and demoralized to pay any attention to a couple of middle-aged men crouched over a whisky . |
| 3 | Vron crouched over a flat mirror . |
| 4 | I hold my hands over the cooker like I was a boy scout crouched over a camp-fire . |
| 5 | On one side of the fireplace a grey-haired woman was absorbed in some needlework whilst on the other side , with her back to us , a young girl crouched over a book , loudly reciting a French poem in a voice shot through with gaiety and laughter . |
| 6 | She picked off two pale sticky little slugs and flicked them away into the weeds , then crouched over a clear patch of soil and started to pull apart their tangled cotton-thread roots . |
| 7 | And wherever there was a suggestion of a space there would be a craftsman bent over his work : a weaver over his loom , a metal-worker crouched over a dish of grey ash fanning a lump of live charcoal in its midst with a blowpipe , a basket-worker holding what he was making with his toes so as to leave his hands free , a turner doing his turning with a little bow which might have been used to shoot arrows , the man making pegs for the ornate wooden windows . |