Example sentences of "[noun sg] pass over " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you get the last two or three stitches , watch carefully , do n't allow the stitches to stretch too much and then gently take the weight off the knitting as the final stitch passes over the linker latch . |
| 2 | A Castle Air Force-based B-52 , a Travis-based C-141 , and a Beale TR-1 spyplane each made high and low speed passes over the field . |
| 3 | If an owl swoops down on the kangaroo rat , the kangaroo rat is alerted by the sound of wind passing over the bird 's wings and can evade the grasping talons . |
| 4 | The flame from its mouth passed over the western lands like a comet and woke millennial longings in the hearts of Roman legionaries , who eked out their twenty years of cold service dreaming of victories and of eating fresh figs under the olive trees of home . |
| 5 | Their unfocused glance passed over him without the slightest flicker of movement or response . |
| 6 | The wind passed over them and rustled the bare branches of the trees and they still stood . |
| 7 | A slight frown of disappointment passed over the photographer 's face . |
| 8 | Nell was at a bookshelf , reading out titles as the pool of light passed over the volumes . |
| 9 | Moreover , he noticed an electric lighting cable passing over the wall to an adjoining house , which he found was occupied by a senior official . |
| 10 | If a stretch of river holds more than one shoal of bream that patrol the same beat , then the only way they can pass each other when feeding on the same beat at the same time , is for one shoal to pass over the other . |
| 11 | We 've had some fairly exotic bass strings dangled in front of our wallets over the years — like the ones which were round-wound by the bridge and progressively smoother up towards the nut , and the others designed so that only the bare core passes over the bridge saddles — but Jim D'Addario is pretty scathing about them all . |
| 12 | But by focusing on the way party leaderships and their organisational structures block the road to realignment on the left , Hall passes over the fundamental weakness of radical culture in British civil society . |
| 13 | ‘ This is a good pub , ’ she said , hastily , obviously aware of having trespassed , her gaze passing over the heavy plush seating and lighting on one of the barmen who was openly resting his eyes on her as he polished glasses . |
| 14 | ( But in 1923 , George V chose Stanley Baldwin to become prime minister over the more experienced Lord Curzon , and in 1957 the Queen passed over R.A. Butler to succeed Harold Macmillan . ) |
| 15 | She recognized him immediately , but though his gaze passed over her there was no recognition . |
| 16 | The leading Myrcan looked him up and down critically , then his gaze passed over Riven 's shoulder to Isay . |
| 17 | The engine passed over her , the wheels severing her head from her body . |
| 18 | During playback , another laser beam passes over the surface of the spinning disc , acting as a kind of non-material stylus . |
| 19 | Its long dewlap and floppy ears help to cup the scent as the bloodhound 's nose passes over the ground . |
| 20 | Turning the board around by steering away from the wind and letting the sail pass over the front of the board . |
| 21 | It takes only a few minutes to carry out this simple exercise , but it will greatly improve your ability to recognise genuinely lost coins when your search head passes over them . |
| 22 | Maybe it 's not activated — by which I mean ready to go off when a vessel passes over it — until the ticking stops . |
| 23 | One per over per batsman is the ration , with a bouncer being defined as a ball passing over the batsman 's shoulder as he stands upright at the crease . |
| 24 | And then there was the greatest ace of them all , Otto Kretschmer , whose record of having sunk a quarter of a million tons of Allied shipping was never beaten , Kretschmer who had perfected the night tactics , taught him by Dönitz , of letting a convoy pass over him , surfacing between the lines , loosing off torpedoes at ships either side of him , then diving again to get clear . |
| 25 | A soft smile passed over Helen 's normally serious face . |
| 26 | The shockwave passed over them , rattling their bones . |
| 27 | Despair passed over Clare 's face . |
| 28 | With every inhalation and exhalation , air passes over the false vocal cords and makes the rrrrrrr noise of the purr . |
| 29 | The basic principle of the lift is that of two balancing weights positioned on an inclined plane , and suspended by a connecting rope passing over pulley wheels at the top of the plane ( figures 3 and 4 ) . |
| 30 | A short mile further on , the road passes over the stream , Ais Gill , issuing from the impressive limestone confines of White Kirk , hidden by the railway viaduct and unseen and unsuspected from the road which continues uneventfully down the valley and arrives at the compact little community of Outhgill . |