Example sentences of "[adv] over [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the fighting was apparently over by the time he attended the German emperor Conrad II 's imperial coronation in Rome in March 1027 , the most likely year for Holy River therefore seems to be 1026 , or conceivably , if operations were protracted , 1025 . |
| 2 | She went swiftly over to the door and had gone before he could answer . |
| 3 | We walked together over to the cottage . |
| 4 | She did n't believe me when I said I was sure it was because she was n't taking the carriage far enough over to the right , clearing the pattern selector . |
| 5 | Went to the Country Dancing Club , used to go all over to the Country Dances |
| 6 | The university teacher in Britain , thinking of producing a tape-slide sequence to explain a particular concept or process to his students , may well need only to consider , with a production assistant , the learning objectives , the structure of the process to be considered , the best ways to exemplify this in the photographs to be taken , the graphics to design , and the commentary to write , and then turn it all over to the producer to put into effect , with his guidelines and help . |
| 7 | It is all over for the present . ’ |
| 8 | You must know foreign languages , you 've been all over with the Army , 'ave n't you ? ’ |
| 9 | They burn all over with the heat and feel hotter than their temperature would justify . |
| 10 | 1 Peel the pears and rub them all over with the cut side of the lemon . |
| 11 | She went hot all over at the thought , too upset to understand that she had only escaped his hold because he had let her . |
| 12 | it was all over at the start of the second half … it took Millwall just 17 seconds and ten touches to win the game … |
| 13 | His tools were all over in the cafeteria , there had to be something that he could use to open himself up . |
| 14 | My charm wins them all over in the end . |
| 15 | Teague 's career looked all over after the world cup final … but he 's beaten off a shoulder injury and is back at his best … so too is Oxfordshire jockey Richard Dunwoody he rode five winners on saturday … today he won again on the Nicholson trained Now Your Talkin … he 's the top jockey with 40 winners … now he 's talkin … the Williams team from Didcot do n't do a lot of talking apart from Nigel of course but they 've swept the board in formula one this season … |
| 16 | It lasted , like that with Elizabeth , for over a quarter of a century , though the five meetings between us were all over by the autumn of 1947 . |
| 17 | Clipboard held tightly under her arm , she strode purposefully over to the area where the thousands of drums were stacked in a sprawled , looming maze . |
| 18 | Bernice moved purposefully over to the corner of the passenger section where their meagre supplies were stored . |
| 19 | The game was effectively over by the interval , with Celtic having built up a four-goal lead through Graham Nichols ( 2 ) , Kevin Messenger and Tom Shepherd . |
| 20 | And pave right over to the gate there so you , so that you can get either car out one one car and bring up to the back of here and the other two across there . |
| 21 | He walked slowly over to the door , and stood looking down at her . |
| 22 | She drifted slowly over to the telephone , most people doodled while they talked , and Roman proved no exception . |
| 23 | She pulled on a short silk nightdress — a rather extravagant Christmas present from one of her sisters — brushed her hair until the long dark strands gleamed , then walked slowly over to the window . |
| 24 | Sheila walked slowly over to the window and watched Cedric as he wheeled his bicycle across Beaumont Street towards St Giles ' . |
| 25 | Then he walked slowly over to the edge of the hill and looked down . |
| 26 | A little later from his bedroom , where he had retired for a rest , he watched through his daughters ' brass telescope as the grey shadow of what had once been the sleek and lively Hari moved slowly over to the sepoy lines with , as usual , the Prime Minister dodging along behind am . |
| 27 | Anyway , we 've finished all we can eat of this Cambozola , and the wine bottle is only good for sticking candles in , and we are still sitting on the carpet lit by one small lamp somewhere over in the corner , and she keeps filling in the pauses by staring into my eyes as if she 's checking I do n't wear false eyelashes , and I start to think it 's about time I got up off the floor . |
| 28 | Meanwhile over at The Theatre in Chipping Norton Mother Goose has found a novel way of beating the recession . |
| 29 | Away over towards the canal beyond the golf course , a bridge of coloured light arced to the silent earth just about where her husband would be just now , crouched in his little watchman 's hut , at the foot of the night rainbow , where a piece of heaven had fallen to earth in Ruchill . |
| 30 | And that 's just over to the shop there , just over the at the other side of the road . |