Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] [adv] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Evil One may not have come between us and God on a personal level , but as an army he has scattered us all over the place , dumped us unceremoniously in our little religious ghettoes and subcultures , and left us to our own devices . |
| 2 | As I work in the Middle East , I usually only have a short space of time while I 'm home to sort out my musical needs and Colin from my local store , Heads Hands and Feet , has helped me tremendously over the years . |
| 3 | Her work has taken her all over the world . |
| 4 | ‘ My job as an engineer has taken me all over the world , ’ says Bob , who lives in Kirkdale and now works for GEC . |
| 5 | I must admit , I think it had been better if they 'd moved it all over the weekend and then just put it straight again on the Monday , that would be . |
| 6 | ‘ I had known David for quite a long time ; we come from Cambridge and I knew him vaguely in the early days — I remember when he joined the Floyd in fact — and I 'd seen him socially over the years . |
| 7 | His weakness for girls from an escort agency run by an old friend of Jack 's had cost him dear over the years . |
| 8 | This and his link with Stevenson 's had served him well over the last few years , and he had become something of an expert in railway funding , especially in European railways . |
| 9 | ‘ You 'd have heard him all over the shop , ’ he said , ‘ and he came off the phone complaining that he 'd just lost 40,000 . |
| 10 | By the time the tins had fallen that far , the wind and slipstream would have blown them all over the sky . |
| 11 | I may have sent it quicker over the goal line with this touch , but I think it would have reached it in any case . ’ |
| 12 | She had n't been keeping track of the conversation , but he seemed to have pulled himself together over the past few minutes . |
| 13 | He had taught her much over the years . |
| 14 | I 've gathered them slowly over the years , because they 're cruelly expensive . |
| 15 | Since she had been secretary to a bishop ( she learnt to type by trial and error ) , and also chauffeur to a bishop ( she learnt to drive by trial and error ) , she knew a lot of the clergy and their wives and had visited them all over the diocese , often in the black-out , and sat with the wives while the husbands talked to Bishop Owen , so she was good at remembering about them and their children and found the wives of the clergy to be fun . |
| 16 | Like the Jews the Scots were a talented and creative people who had exported themselves all over the world ; there was hardly a country anywhere where a quorum of doctors , dentists , teachers , sailors , engineers , could not be assembled for a Burns Night supper or St Andrew 's Day dinner . |
| 17 | No , but they 've had 'em all over the country |
| 18 | Fernando had driven her all over the island . |
| 19 | Rush and Hughes have done it all over the years . |
| 20 | I dare say that you too , Mr. Speaker , were inspired by all you saw , and of course you have visited them all over the years and have great experience of this subject . |
| 21 | I gather that he 's got himself together over the last 18 months and it has certainly paid off . |
| 22 | Alongside this development have appeared key products such as estate agents services and mortgage facilities , which have established themselves firmly over the same period . |