Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] over the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you came from a chapel and puritanical background of dark and moral mills where the only promised warmth was hell-fire , then — given the opportunity — you skidded all over the field like a jackpot rabbit . |
| 2 | Most of the rest of the iodine reached the population via milk , produced all over the country , that was not banned . |
| 3 | ‘ Ca n't read a sodding map , gets his human body splattered all over the street , then takes off without a by your leave or kiss my elbow . |
| 4 | The pots of paint lay splattered all over the carpet . |
| 5 | On the motor bike we rode all over the countryside , to Bathampton , Bradford-on-Avon to see the old tithe barn , to Bristol to visit the Llandoger Trow , and as far as Cheltenham Spa , Leamington and Gloucester . |
| 6 | Chucked all over the place . |
| 7 | They twinkled all over the hull in patterns which raced backwards and forwards and disappeared . |
| 8 | Then the almond eyes gazed fiercely over the child 's head towards Nana . |
| 9 | Such investigators as Rowntree , A. L. Bowley and L. Chiozza Money demonstrated that the disparity between rich and poor and the proportion of the population living in severe poverty changed little over the period . |
| 10 | Her fingers moved slowly over the paperweight . |
| 11 | Endill peered slowly over the edge of it . |
| 12 | A delicious smell of casseroled chicken , heavy with herbs and garlic , hung in the air as Ace bent professionally over the oven . |
| 13 | A mist drifted over the marsh as the moon rose slowly over the tower above . |
| 14 | ‘ Where the gas seeped weakly over the rock , ten thousand or so miles from the blasted pits of volcanic ore that blazed with the light of a thousand suns , there I made my abhorred discovery … ’ ’ |
| 15 | The proposals were due to be considered by Cabinet ten days later and ministers do not like seeing what they are to discuss plastered all over the press beforehand . |
| 16 | Crouched in the shadows , Scathach watched , but his eyes were on Tallis , not on her fingers as they moved swiftly over the charm . |
| 17 | His eyes moved swiftly over the scene before him , registering but not acknowledging Pascoe and Dalziel . |
| 18 | Spiritual congress of this kind is , in fact , found all over the world and throughout history — as the biographies of famous Christian and other mystics confirm and occurs more often than is generally supposed in our own contemporary Western world . |
| 19 | She wandered all over the stave and produced a curious counterpoint to the tune . |
| 20 | These new towns proposed all over the country have been called ‘ a solution in search of a problem ’ by the CPRE — in other words a solution to a non-existent problem , as enough land has already been put aside for people to be housed . |
| 21 | But he only bent deeper over the picture . |
| 22 | WHATEVER breast-beating occurred elsewhere over the outcome of the Waco siege , it was not to be found in Nashville , where the National Rifle Association ( NRA ) has just held its annual meeting . |
| 23 | They stopped just over the brow of a hill . |
| 24 | After ten minutes , Callaghan peered wretchedly over the rim of the crater . |
| 25 | Doubts surfaced yesterday over the participation of Royal Athlete in Saturday 's big race . |
| 26 | A buzzard , wings outstretched , posed stiffly over the kitchen door , its glass eyes thickly dusted-over . |
| 27 | What has changed , and changed radically over the period from the late 1960s to the early 1980s , has been the perception of that culture . |
| 28 | Defries and Ace crawled up to a hollow , and peered cautiously over the lip . |
| 29 | Now , as her fingers moved smoothly over the piano keys , Laura acknowledged that Julie was right . |
| 30 | Samuel , who had sharply critical judgment , thought that he presided well over the Cabinet in the first year of the Government , prepared himself carefully for its meetings and prevented ‘ knots or tangles … from being drawn tight ’ . |