Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were stacks of old art magazines , a broken easel , the white-painted bough which Elise had brought down at Christmas before trimming and hanging it over the inglenook fireplace . |
| 2 | Shaken off balance by her startling thoughts , Isabel glanced away , stepping out of her gown and hanging it over the table . |
| 3 | Jonathan , Jonathan , dad wants to watch the news in a minute please , so hurry up and change it over You 'd think they 'd save that You do n't know , I would n't be surprised you will well that 's marvellous is n't it ? |
| 4 | Tuan Ti Fo smiled and , taking a blanket , took it across and laid it over the child . |
| 5 | Well of course they are and bringing them over here must cost them five hundred quid . |
| 6 | I know my father would raise a terrific stink if I told him the Headmistress had grabbed me by the hair and slung me over the playground fence . ’ |
| 7 | He took off his jacket and slung it over the back of the seat , feeling the sun warm on his neck . |
| 8 | ‘ Pick up that box , William , and bring it over here . ’ |
| 9 | By the time I had come downstairs and made it over the mali 's trenchworks , Balvinder had polished the bonnet so bright he could curl his moustache in the reflection . |
| 10 | He reappeared carrying two glasses that tinkled with ice and passed one over the fence to the woman . |
| 11 | She picked it up and draped it over Miss Liberty 's still-smoking remains . |
| 12 | I ran it behind each radiator and draped it over the pair of mounting brackets on each radiator . |
| 13 | He switched out the light , but the darkness made his skin crawl so he switched it back on , then took Sophie 's sweater from the floor and draped it over the lampshade . |
| 14 | Finally he wandered through into the kitchen , pulled off his jacket and draped it over the back of a chair . |
| 15 | Anyway , after I 'd introduced her to a few different locations and got her over the initial newness of the experience , she seemed perfectly willing to come to me . |
| 16 | For I remember us doing a flipping er a family came to Wyre once and we were on the same old coble we were er doing the flipping and we thought we had nothing to do but take the rope off their heads and push them over the side of the coble onto the side of the small jetty . |
| 17 | If the outlet is directly over the pipe , simply cut the pipe to length and push it over the outlet connection . |
| 18 | We did all right until we got to the last bit and I got my foot caught in Otley 's pocket when he tried to bend down , he fell and flung me over his head knocking my wig skew-whiff . |
| 19 | To disappear the young men into their own terrain , make use of every cave and wood ( and send them over the water if need be ) ? |
| 20 | City were competing well in mid-field and keeping their opponents at full stretch , but after twenty four minutes , Shenley pulled level as Paul Armitage crossed into goalkeeper Steve Roberts , but he lost possession as he collided with Andy King and allowed Rob Blackmore to get a touch and send it over the line . |
| 21 | Any finer detail required in the painting is achieved simply by mixing white with the appropriate colour and applying it over the top of the darker colours for an opaque effect . |
| 22 | The opportunity to serve you and to meet you over the next twelve months I look forward to enormously and while I 'm not conceited enough to think that I can move mountains in the year ahead , or naive enough to think that I can please everybody fully , fellow Tablers I promise you I will not let you down . |
| 23 | He pushed her back into the room and , seizing the case , opened it and upended it over the bed . |
| 24 | Her husband lowered his paper and regarded her over the top of it . |
| 25 | Instead , resting his elbows on his papers , he laced his fingers together and regarded her over them . |
| 26 | She paused and regarded him over the top of her glass . |
| 27 | ‘ What are you doing ? ’ he asked conversationally , divesting himself of his jacket and slinging it over the sofa . |
| 28 | Worriedly judging her moment , and hoping fervently that the other two heard nothing , she slipped out behind the third man , and cracked him over the head with the cutters . |
| 29 | Simply take a length of split foam pipe insulation , and slip it over the offending cable where it passes over the sill . |
| 30 | Divide the dough into eight equal portions and place it over the template , cutting round the edges with a sharp knife . |