Example sentences of "[noun] drift over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes drifted over the side . |
| 2 | His mind drifted over the people whom he had heard about for the first time that morning , groping for some sort of perspective . |
| 3 | She took his put-down without rancour , allowing her gaze to drift over the paperwork scattered in separate clumps of disorder at intervals along the work-bench . |
| 4 | Sand drifted over the asphalt like curling wisps of smoke . |
| 5 | Lazily , she stretched and smiled , letting her somnolent gaze drift over the procession of reeds and gnarled trees that dipped their branches low into the water . |
| 6 | A huge operation swung into action after a fire at a Cheshire chemical factory sent a cloud of gases drifting over the area . |
| 7 | A mist drifted over the marsh as the moon rose slowly over the tower above . |
| 8 | ‘ Somehow I survived that long cold night and in the morning the wind stilled and a chill grey mist drifted over the moors . |
| 9 | Barnes had been burning leaves by the haha , the bonfire still smouldered , the smoke drifting over the paddock . |
| 10 | Laughter and song drifted over the water from the clachan . |
| 11 | ICI is probing the cause of the fire which sent a gas cloud drifting over the eastern part of the town and outlying villages . |
| 12 | Tiny feathers of cloud drifted over the horizon like a flock of fire-birds . |
| 13 | A wide black shadow drifted over the treetops , and came to a halt . |
| 14 | The morning of the race , Fuji obscured under a bank of moist clouds , fog drifting over the track , the circuit itself full of huge puddles which men with brooms sought vainly to sweep , a whole season was in the hands of a malignant fate . |
| 15 | Pete 's sea , the sea around the oil-rig , was grey , surely , up there in the cold : metallic and swelling , full of menace , fog drifting over the water , wreaths of mist obscuring the long , iron joints , the hard angles sticking up out of the ice-cold darkness of the waves . |
| 16 | The sky was studded with stars , and the lilting voice of the folk singer at the barbecue drifted over the floodlit lawns . |