Example sentences of "and [v-ing] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't remember him doing much digging in the garden but in my memory he is always mowing the lawn and fussing over a particular type of grass which evaded the blades and sprang back upright after the mower had passed over it . |
| 2 | One night , bumping into the doorway , and stepping over a colleague , I made my way out into the sleet , the toilets all being occupied , and as I crouched , steadying my cheek against the cold planks , I peered through the reeking shadows of Auschwitz and saw that the nearest ruins were fuming more than ever and had even begun to glow . |
| 3 | In due course , and all too soon , the excitement of the scenery fades as the road declines through woodland to the only buildings , the Nature Reserve of Inverpolly , there crossing the River Polly and climbing over a bare moorland dominated by Stac Polly , here seen end on as a slender spire , and then finally joins the Ullapool-Achiltibuie road . |
| 4 | A small train , hauled by a tiny steam engine and comprising double-bogied cars carrying three sealed , hissing cauldrons each , trundled slowly by , wheels screeching and clattering over a set of points . |
| 5 | The department offers supervision and teaching over a wide area of the history of art and architecture . |
| 6 | Expressions for the amplitudes a n and b n of the harmonic components of any Fourier series are obtained by multiplying both sides of equation ( 11.1 ) by or and integrating over a complete period . |
| 7 | Multiplying both sides of equation ( 11.8 ) by and integrating over a period of the fundamental , , that is , from to Hence the equivalent expression to equations ( 11.4 ) — ( 11.6 ) giving the amplitudes of the harmonics of a Fourier series is |
| 8 | But in the middle of this beautiful room , Isabella and Edgar Linton were screaming and fighting over a little dog ! |
| 9 | To Greeves , the orthodox believer , he wrote in January 1930 , ‘ In spite of all my recent changes of view I am still inclined to think that you can only get what you call Christ out of the Gospels by picking and choosing and slurring over a good deal . ’ |
| 10 | With the toe of his shoe he kicked a loose pebble on the path , sending it spinning and ricocheting over a nearby flowerbed . |
| 11 | While many are unable to tolerate a close , demanding , intimate relationship they nevertheless crave friendships and want to engage in normal social activities such as eating out and chatting over a drink in a club or pub . |
| 12 | And even the most hardened cynic must agree that lying down with your eyes closed listening to music is a lot more appealing than grunting and straining over a set of weights in your local sports centre . |
| 13 | To one side of the lot was a collection of European cars and leaning over a snow-white Triumph was Hank Stych , talking to one of the salesmen . |