Example sentences of "[verb] it [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All she succeeded in doing was knocking it farther over the slithering groundsheet . |
| 2 | He had turned to look at her , slipping off his coat as he did so and tossing it carelessly over the back of one of the armchairs . |
| 3 | Rush and Hughes have done it all over the years . |
| 4 | right , tie it off in a reef knot , if you 've got bits that are left dangling they 're too long and you ca n't go round again because it 's gon na make it too tight , you can either tuck them in or else you can fold them down , a nice clean plaster and put it right over the top , okay ? |
| 5 | Who 's had spaghetti and put it all over the floor ? . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I do n't know whether this will be acceptable to Policy and Resources Committee or the Council at the end of the day , but essentially what is showing there is something that , taken over the three years meets er , a figure equivalent to the annual but it does n't do it uniformly over the three years . |
| 8 | Boswell had by now made it plain over a number of years that he wished to write Johnson 's Life . |
| 9 | They went to Waldegrave 's chamber and smeared it all over the tunic of our comatose priest . |
| 10 | They drop it all over the place . |
| 11 | Any sort of boat could have been used to ferry a body to midstream and to put it gently over the side in darkness . |
| 12 | I 've had to put it together over the last three days . |
| 13 | Yeah , before Tim tipped it all over the mat and all over the |
| 14 | You know how a man can say nothing and you hear it all over the house for weeks ? |
| 15 | Some nosey guy from a yellow sheet would find out who the mysterious Mrs. X was in a blackmail case , and smear it all over the front . |
| 16 | If I put it on there you 'll probably spill it all over the photographs . |
| 17 | Now do n't go and spill it all over the photos ! |
| 18 | I imagined what would happen if I should tear the sleeves out , or cut it up , or run to the kitchen for the tomato-ketchup and pour it all over the bodice ; if I should rip out the collar with my teeth . |
| 19 | Moments later , as Lake Balkhash slipped away below him , Vologsky made a minor adjustment and set the Foxbat on a course which would take it directly over the home missile bases at Alma-Ata . |
| 20 | I do not believe that borrowing on that scale is acceptable and I shall be announcing measures today to reduce it progressively over the years ahead . |
| 21 | The distress caused by a horse being stolen , I 'd have it all over the its body if it stopped them being stolen . |
| 22 | see that 's gon na , see what I mean , as we go along that 'll fall on the floor that , you 'll have it all over the place , put it away okay , get some petrol now on the way |
| 23 | You find it all over the tropics , especially in sandy places . |
| 24 | Everybody could hear it all over the factory . |
| 25 | I hit it all over the place . |
| 26 | On the way back , I set down the grassbox , unplug the sprinkler and coil the hosepipe ( which Pa , being always so busy , has obviously forgotten ) in even circles around my hand and elbow , then go to the shed and lay it carefully over the two dowelling pegs . |
| 27 | He plans to release it all over the Far East as well as Britain , and said : ‘ It will sell like hot cakes . ’ |
| 28 | I mean in , in he did n't leave it all over the yard and all that you know . |
| 29 | Anya drapes it carefully over the mirror . |
| 30 | Now bring it all over the left hand side and we 'll get B to the plus sixteen B square , minus two , two , five equals what ? |