Sentence examples for over a roof from inspiring English sources

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They climbed through a hole in security fencing and clambered over a roof before opening fire.

The Inquisition turns up to arrest him, and he escapes over a roof (which he did at one point, though not this one).

*How Joseph Voves and his brother were helping people escape across the borders in 1949, after the Communist takeover, when "they caught my brother," Mr. Voves said, "and I went running over a roof and hid at a farmer's house.

It all goes back to June this year when a lone goon was refused entry to a previous party and fell 30ft into the nearby River Rea after his attempt to gain access over a roof went awry.

Although Do-joon seems to recover from his accident, the event sets off a chain of increasingly violent incidents that culminate in the murder of a local schoolgirl, Ah-jung (Moon Hee-ra), whose body is found slumped over a roof wall in the village, positioned, one character says, like "laundry".

Sergio Leone's famous crane shot in "Once Upon a Time in the West" (1968), following Claudia Cardinale's arrival at a railroad station, observing her through a window, then rising seraphically over a roof to survey the wider scene, made audiences swoon, and not just because of Ennio Morricone's score.

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Then they're shingled over with a roof of grilled bread sprinkled with lemon juice and tomato water.

Without a roof over your head!

They've never been without a roof over their heads.

McFeely needn't worry about a roof over his head.

Imagine Central Park with a roof over it.

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