Sentence examples for over a burning from inspiring English sources
He said his piece "represents a hare racing across a motorway at night and leaping over a burning car".
High-Rise by JG Ballard It opens with a man roasting an alsatian over a burning phonebook, and doesn't relent from there on in.
So far in 2010, he's fired a crossbow at a whale from a speedboat, driven across Siberia in a Lada, and flown a plane over a burning forest to douse the flames with water.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin underscored that point by taking to the skies to serve as co-pilot of an amphibious firefighting jet, the Be-200, on a dive-bombing run over a burning forest in central Russia, though he has no known pilot training.
"Normally, if you get six engineers in a room, you'll get 12 different opinions," explained Steve Love, a 45-year-old flight test engineer who was warming his hands over a burning barrel on the picket line here the other day.
Consider Gordon Liddy who reportedly held his hand over a burning candle till his flesh burnt in order to test his will.
"They would put their hand on a burning fire over and over again.
As it turns over in slow motion like a burning piece of paper, a small black dot is falling too – is that the pilot?
Two other men rushed to pick up a bloodied man who was splayed over his fallen bicycle, near a burning car.
"New York seems to attract Type A personalities; people from all over the world who have a burning desire to be someone and do something," he says.
Option C told the story of a man who chose to save his girlfriend from a burning building over his mother, saying his actions amounted to a criminal failure to act.
