Example sentences of "and [v-ing] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An interesting effect can be obtained by brushing a few strokes of water onto the paper and drawing over the top . |
| 2 | An interesting effect can be obtained by brushing a few strokes of water onto the paper and drawing over the top . |
| 3 | Fat couples in vacation plaids , bouncing about like toddlers in the low g and cooing over the moondirt souvenir jewellery . |
| 4 | subsequently after about ten flights , and porting over the books , and speaking to people who serviced them during the war years , they discovered that all it needed was a well-placed whack with a hammer on the trailing edge of the aileron . |
| 5 | Once Dandelion struck the smell of a stoat and they all joined him , whispering and sniffing over the ground . |
| 6 | 20ft seas were running into the entrance and crashing over the sea walls and visibility was virtually non-existent in the rain , spume and spray . |
| 7 | I was looking for drugs and walking over the aerosol cans . |
| 8 | The sudden descent into abuse took McLeish by surprise and he realized he must have shown it , because the girl literally got a grip on herself , folding her arms and hunching over the table . |
| 9 | We drove out of the city on the now four-laned highway , passing the airport and driving over the bridge where I silently saluted the ancient tower standing in the tide-water below , the place where the Sheikha had fallen from her camel . |
| 10 | ‘ The idea of nicking a Stones riff and putting it behind a James Brown backbeat and howling over the top is pretty appealing , but it 's not really what we 're into as a band . |
| 11 | ‘ The idea of nicking a Stones riff and putting it behind a James Brown backbeat and howling over the top is pretty appealing , but it 's not really what we 're into as a band . |
| 12 | They flew in a magical world of silence , swooping and gliding over the dark world below where all the earthly people were fast asleep in their beds . |
| 13 | This seems an odd reversal of the usual rule that Arctic animals are whiter , but otherwise they behaved as fulmar do in Shetland , appearing to spend much of their time flying and gliding over the sea . |
| 14 | It is a cruel sport at best , but the poor show the matadors and toreadors made by running for the outer rail and escaping over the fence when the enraged bull pursued them was not a creditable sight ; I spent my time , for as long as I stayed , cheering for the bulls . |
| 15 | The lake birds appeared to be healthy enough , but they were always scrounging food from the tourists and picking over the debris that washed up on the lake shore . |
| 16 | One at Duisker has a flat stone slab on the ground to the north of it some yards away ; standing on the slab and looking over the upright stone points to Kildalton but is there any significance ? |
| 17 | The influence of Jupiter currently in Cancer and passing over the mid-heaven point of your solar chart is quite awe-inspiring but somewhat difficult to harness . |
| 18 | We finished our coffee and watched the seagulls whirling and shrieking over the harbour in the spring sunshine . |
| 19 | Roll out the marzipan on a surface dusted with icing sugar or cornflour to a large circle and use to cover the cake , tucking the edges underneath and smoothing over the curve . |
| 20 | Trim the strip so that it is even , and wrap around the base of the postbox , using a dampened paint brush and smoothing over the join . |
| 21 | Wrap the strip around the sides of the cake , trimming away excess and smoothing over the join . |
| 22 | Case No. 5 : 58 year-old woman fell , sustaining a left ankle sprain and bruising over the ankle and tibia . |
| 23 | Turn the top 2cm ( ¾in ) of curtain and lining over the top edge of the buckram , then tack and machine it in place close to the folded edge ( fig. 32 ) . |
| 24 | Rosie at once scrambled to her feet , the marbles she had in her lap dropping and clattering over the polished wood floors . |
| 25 | Erm I went er at the end of September and I did white water rafting , going down in a raft er seven to a boat , and going over the rapids wearing a |
| 26 | And I 've thought about buying a , a me erm a metal detector and going up and going over the where the kirkyard was because when there were was here that was in about sixteen oh it might have been about sixteen sixty or sixteen eighty . |
| 27 | It looks better for going around most of the edges and going over the grass . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , there does n't seem to be anything wrong , ’ said Heather regretfully , standing on a five-barred gate and peering over the fields . |
| 29 | I cast back and suddenly found that I had hooked the bird , which had been feeding avidly , dipping and swooping over the water . |
| 30 | John Hand , BT 's 0800 marketing manager , says : ‘ British shoppers want to beat all the hassles by following the American lead and buying over the phone . |