Example sentences of "over [prep] the far [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rafiq followed him , and for a moment Robert thought he was going to hit him , but , instead , he ran across the road and over towards the far side of the Common . |
| 2 | She nodded her head at the cardiac monitor screen over against the far wall . |
| 3 | Over near the far wall stands an ancient McAlpine portacabin , stolen from some building site twenty years ago . |
| 4 | That was how she saw it and it added to her perturbation just as the sight of Tom leading hay over under the far wood gave her a quite unnecessary pang for she had never really loved him . |
| 5 | Though I must admit , we 'll be glad when it 's all over in the Far East and they can come back safe and sound . ’ |
| 6 | She was busy at the tap over in the far corner of the cemetery , filling the empty bottle she had brought with her from the house . |
| 7 | Over on the Far West Buttresses , Ian Lloyd-Jones and Clive Stephenson added Clog Dancing , E2 5a/b , 5c which takes a line left of Farfallino , and A Fistful Of Pockets , E3 5c , which follows the obvious weakness on the left-hand side of the buttress . |
| 8 | Alina was over on the far side of the room , sitting at her table with the lamp angled to spill across the pages of the scrapbook that lay open in front of her . |
| 9 | Now he sat out on the porch with his chair tilted back and his feet up on the rail , and he sipped at his beer as he watched the patterns of sunlight on the forest over on the far side of the track . |
| 10 | The alley 's dead end glowed red in the wash of its brake lights , long shadows being thrown by the garbage hoppers over on the far side , and the sound of the cab 's turning engine had a hard edge in the chill night air . |
| 11 | Quiss came back to the table by way of another small , though taller , table over on the far side of the room , where a few dirty cups and cracked glasses stood in a small tin basin under a dripping tap . |
| 12 | He meets us over on the far side of the town at nine thirty P.M. ’ |
| 13 | Now I 'm going to go inside and get myself a drink , ’ he announced , ‘ and then we are going to go over to the far field where there 's a modicum of peace and we are going to look at these plans together , OK ? ’ |
| 14 | He wandered over to the far wall . |
| 15 | As Robert was trying to remember whether that was the college he had said he had attended , Mr Malik went over to the far wall and began to pin up the league table of exam results . |
| 16 | The specifications will then be transmitted by modem over to the Far East for manufacture , and the final products shipped back , by air , to the UK for testing . |
| 17 | Ranulf watched his master and the friar go over to the far side of the room . |
| 18 | She scuttled over to the far side of the room and had managed to read quite a lot of the letter before Julius came charging after her , taking the paper back from her with such force that it almost ripped in half . |
| 19 | Instead he swung away from her and strode over to the far side of the room . |
| 20 | He prowled over to the far side of the kitchen , then slammed down a couple of plates , as if he were suddenly finding it very hard to control his own temper . |
| 21 | He paced rather restlessly over to the far side of the kitchen . |
| 22 | Laughing at this last jibe , she swept some papers into her arms and went over to the far side of the nurses ' station , where files were stored , leaving Belinda relieved to be alone . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm trying to get a little privacy , ’ she murmured , going over to the far side of the boat where she would be hidden from view . |
| 24 | Sunil walked over to the far side of his bed , searched among the books that stood in piles in the corner and selected half a dozen paperbacks . |
| 25 | I told my father I was trying to get them over to the far side , to the mainland , and that the ones I had to bury , the ones which fell short , were victims of scientific research , but I doubt I really needed this excuse , my father never seemed bothered about the suffering of lower forms of life , despite having been a hippy , and perhaps because of his medical training . |
| 26 | Cranston roared with laughter and led Athelstan over to the far corner where a table and stools were set apart from the rest of the customers . |
| 27 | He pumped the ball over to the far post where Whitton finished off , heading past Alan Kelly from eight yards . |
| 28 | They went over to the far end of the pit . |
| 29 | Milwall have the lead that 's the important thing here it came over at the far side of the penalty area , had got up for it Ray and the Kennedy there was also a Middlesbrough foot in there . |
| 30 | A few children were assembling all the props on a table over by the far wall . |