Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Business has been built up steadily over the last 12 years in Germany , Denmark , Spain , France , Eire and Greece , and more recently in Eastern Europe , the Czech Republic and Slovakia . |
| 2 | It is also necessary not to view policies in a static way ; they have been built up slowly over a long period and they are still changing . |
| 3 | They 're growing up all over the place and as you say , Ernie he he he did say about education but whose gon na run education in the future same as social services , you 'll soon find they 'll social services up into the health service . |
| 4 | You 're wobbling about all over the strings . |
| 5 | Funny that the kids are so quiet , usually after a day cooped up in there they 're jumping around all over the place . |
| 6 | Slack planning laws mean hotels are growing up all over the place , said Nick — who quickly threw out his own idea that the West has all the answers to the problems . |
| 7 | While the weight of the waste we all throw away has been going down slightly over the last twenty years , ( because things like glass , plastic bottles and cans have become thinner ) , the volume of waste has been rising . |
| 8 | He was sure there had been more when he first arrived ; they had been scuttling about all over the place , carrying implements , standing on stools stirring steaming mixtures , chopping things and throwing bits and pieces into cauldrons . |
| 9 | ‘ The lights are going out all over the galaxy , ’ he said softly . |
| 10 | The books are lying about all over the place in Shellerton . |
| 11 | Er , it 's been coming in gradually over the years , but there 's been an awful lot of , of er , resistance by some manufacturers on what they say on their labels , and what they say about what they 're selling us , and er , if they 're gon na do this , and I 'm getting a , a slight suspicion , and I think Mr is , that , that it 's got to be done eventually , and we , we have to be able , as a buying public , to understand exactly what we 're buying before we actually get it home . |
| 12 | They have discovered that problems that they thought had to be brought in person to a bureau , can in fact be carried out successfully over the telephone . |
| 13 | Seems to be wandering about all over the place ! |
| 14 | It is expected to be used up gradually over the relevant period — 15 or 18 years in this case — so as to be exhausted by the end of the period . |
| 15 | Instead the characters will be phased out gradually over the next six months . |
| 16 | Volvo seem to be moving out all over the place . |
| 17 | Morrells Brewery says it 's planning to offer managers at its pubs extra cash to cover the tax which is due to be introduced in just over a fortnight 's time , but the Oxford-based firm says it 'll only pay the equivalent of the initial government estimates for the charge , which in most cases falls well below the actual figure . |
| 18 | After that for six days little smoke columns seemed to be sprouting up all over the forest , now here , now there , but only for an hour or two . |
| 19 | People will be tuning in all over the world for these live performances and it 's the organisers ’ hope that they will also take note of the educational messages conveyed . |
| 20 | More and more self-build projects are taking off all over the NorthEast and Mr Edwards said clear guidelines had to be laid down . |
| 21 | Since no self-respecting modern cookbook leaves herbs out of its recipes , since courses in herbal medicine are springing up all over the place , and since cosmetics which rely on plants are taking the place of the synthetic beauty treatments what , one might ask , is a herb ? |
| 22 | In no sense did it correspond to the experience of student activism that so many of my generation were to go through elsewhere over the next few years . |
| 23 | ‘ We can eat later , ’ Leila called , trying to keep order over the group who were wandering about all over the place . |
| 24 | So this car that was trying to get out was sitting there waiting and there was no driver in sight and people were rushing about all over the station trying to find the driver . |
| 25 | Purple and yellow crocuses were popping up all over the lawn , the hard winter outlines of shrubs and trees were blurred by new growth like the fuzz on an adolescent 's upper lip , even the rows of savagely pruned rosebushes at the front of the house , separated by concrete walkways like a cemetery of spider crabs buried upside-down , were shoving out shoots and buds . |
| 26 | Figures for 1991 reveal that this sort of tradgedy is being played out all over the south of England . |
| 27 | When the bell was sounded , people were running around all over the place , checking gates and doors . |
| 28 | The Interflora boom and Smiths devotees were sprouting up all over the place with their obnoxious shirts and silly haircuts . |
| 29 | But her pulses were jumping around all over the place . |
| 30 | Although Wilhelm 's army was no match for the total power of the Waaagh , Grom 's forces were split up all over the Empire into many small armies . |