Example sentences of "[adv] over [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | END OF THE ROAD : It was Fun while it lasted — but now it 's all over for downcast David Mellor as he is driven away from Westminster after announcing his resignation |
| 2 | The larnax was a clay sarcophagus , often with panelled sides and gabled lids , and elaborately decorated all over with painted images . |
| 3 | Then he covered himself all over with trailing strands of goose-grass and big burdocks and he even found ways to alter his smell . |
| 4 | When she had lugged her third skip up to the scribbling engine , she paused for a moment to watch Rose , who by now resembled a tar baby stuck all over with dirty wool . |
| 5 | In August , near Worth , he sent his mother " a memoir of the horribly devastated battlefield , scattered all over with countless mournful remains and reeking with dead bodies " and in December he wrote to a friend : " if one is to avoid losing all courage , one must not think of these frightful things any more " It is apparent how far removed this mood was from any chauvinistic or militaristic fervour — nor would we particularly expect any such fervour ( despite long established misconceptions about Nietzsche 's attitudes ) from one whose ideas of German nationhood were moulded so largely by the cultural preoccupations of a Hölderlin or a Schopenhauer . |
| 6 | Secure the cake to the cake drum ( with a little royal icing ) and brush all over with apricot glaze . |
| 7 | Brush all over with apricot glaze . |
| 8 | Place the paintbox on the cake drum , and brush all over with apricot glaze . |
| 9 | Schimmel was not an enthusiast of the classic , Attic black-figure pots , but favoured more eccentric pottery , typically the large Italo-geometric buffware askos ( last eighth or early seventh century BC ) in the form of a stylised bird decorated all over with abstract patterns amid a hunter and stag , sold to a Swiss dealer for $85,000 ( est. $30–50,000 ) and the merry group of three terracotta satyrs ( early fifth century ) characterised by expressive poses and gigantic erections , bought by the Cleveland Museum for $70,000 ( est. $15–25,000 ) . |
| 10 | New York is criss-crossed all over with fine dividing lines . |
| 11 | Dressed in a summer frock patterned all over with scarlet poppies , a scarlet silk scarf wound round her head , she looked devastatingly pretty . |
| 12 | The young man stood for a moment on an overhanging ledge of the bank , looking down at the water ; the dog swam round and round below ; the man 's body was flecked all over with light and the shadow patterns of leaves , so that he seemed some human extension of the place . |
| 13 | The façade is beautifully decorated all over with Romanesque carving , representing the Ascension and Second Coming in arcading and sculpture , and the remaining tower is similarly decorated ( 376 and 422 ) . |
| 14 | It was all over in bloody , yelling minutes , and the Scots swept on into the encampment itself . |
| 15 | She tensed all over in shocked denial . |
| 16 | The little fish has an eel-like body and a goby-like head covered all over in small spines and is extremely predatory . |
| 17 | ‘ Your best bet is if I drive straight over to Poorly . |
| 18 | Glancing carefully over with minimum head tilt , I find myself able to linger in sad secrecy on his closed eyes . |
| 19 | But then Ferdinando made sense of another rumour , that Napoleon had reneged , that he had made peace with the Austrians at Villafranca the day before and all was now over for Italian hopes . |
| 20 | It was submitted A that the judge in taking a multiplier of seven to compensate the ten point four years loss , was taking a figure that was too low and B , that in applying a substantial discount for other imponderables he was discounting twice over for early death . |