Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv] over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 'll be lovely , I say politely over the telephone , do come round , it 'll be nice to see you . |
| 2 | From the inner-city I steer shakily over the Liffey and through the cobbled streets and mixed primary colours of old Dublin , through a wide stretch of bleak , bland suburbs and onto a motorway . |
| 3 | I walk quietly over the patio , onto the grass and towards the house , just waiting for the blaze of light from the security lamps . |
| 4 | I 've been bald from a very early age , but I happen to be in the hairdressing industry and I travel all over the world teaching . |
| 5 | No , I think probably over the years every avenue , other than perhaps this one , has been exploited to the full . |
| 6 | Undoubtedly the strangest of Sulawesi 's amazing fauna , the babirusa , a species of pig with four tusks , two of which curve backwards over the head . |
| 7 | There is a sad inevitability about the battles which wage continuously over the future of the wilder uplands of Scotland . |
| 8 | The beetles protect theirs by turning the front pair into stiff thick covers which fit neatly over the top of the abdomen . |
| 9 | But this year , it has finally decided to flower profusely , forming brownish clouds which drift hazily over the bush . |
| 10 | You travel all over the place , you meet a ton of people , you stay in great shape . |
| 11 | You travel all over the world and stay in the top hotels where every room has its own sauna , jacuzzi , and hot and cold running maids . |
| 12 | It is strange to relate that this short stretch of water should be such a barrier but the hills of Wouldham and village are as foreign to some people of Halling as any parts of the world and in fact there are some who travel all over the country and to some places abroad , but have lived all their lives in the village without ever setting foot on the further banks of the river . |
| 13 | can phone anywhere you like all over the world . |
| 14 | I have never had much time for the more esoteric confections you find all over the place . |
| 15 | ‘ You work all over the place , and you must spend a great deal of time away from home . ’ |
| 16 | Well sir , they 're , we support dipping because it 's already been stated to note that we make most of the money for Shropshire from farming , and sheep is one of the big things which we sell all over the country , but unless we can guarantee our sheep are clear of er , disease people are n't going to come here and buy meat and stuff are they ? |
| 17 | Now , suppose we go gently over the events of that night . |
| 18 | ‘ Do you remember when we wanted to get Gawain into Almeira Road school , and we could n't , because all the middle-class parents in s.w.23 were trying to get their kids into Almeira Road , and we live just over the zoning boundary ? |
| 19 | If we work hard over the weekend , we can — ’ |
| 20 | She reached up , and kissing him fiercely on the lips , whispered a rhyme she had made up years before : " Tristram Pascoe , Tristram Pascoe , never , never let your lass go ! " — and when they had hugged , she watched him climb nimbly over the wall and heard him jump down into the hayfield on the other side . |
| 21 | ‘ They dive all over the place . |
| 22 | ‘ They seed all over the place and have the morals of tom cats , so are found in every flower bed , skulking behind hedges , peering round gate posts , naturalising in any open space . |
| 23 | They do do a lot , they travel all over the country , er , and I think it 's a worthwhile thing , I mean , you see the kids dressed up smart . |
| 24 | ‘ They travel all over the North-East watching matches , marking pitches and putting nets up , entirely voluntary the only payment they get is a match ticket . |
| 25 | I mean they travel all over the world these people . |
| 26 | If you generally want the views of the public it is no good trying to false those views through a straight jacket of your own to make it what you think there views should be unless of course they go right over the top in which they I do n't think that 's happened so far . . |
| 27 | yes , that 's the money supply and measures , the measures of money supply I 'm sure you 'll be okay you should beat what I got anyway , cos I saw it sort of cold I could see you were put into shits of boredom , they go totally over the top most of the time my parents |
| 28 | He said ; They go all over the world to Japan and the United States . |
| 29 | While Soviet , liberal and libertarian accounts each attribute a role of enormous importance to the intelligenty , they differ profoundly over the significance of that role . |
| 30 | there 's one of our supervisors and because they work all over the place , you know , they , they travel around and he 's |