Example sentences of "with [adj] [noun pl] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lorry rolled past us along the road , its crumbling body bright with painted pictures plastered over with dust . |
| 2 | It is the detailed , etched pictures that really tell the tale ; the text serves to reinforce the story but suggests rather than dictates the plot , with different monkeys taking over as narrator . |
| 3 | Spitefulness , mental cruelty and crimes of violence are all to do with negative emotions spilling over . |
| 4 | On bad days he was frantic , with black bristles sprouting over his face , screaming shrilly so that he was quite incomprehensible . |
| 5 | In these , males are much larger than females and take much longer to sexually mature - perhaps the result of the increased time spent in competition with other males to take over a group of females . |
| 6 | A long-line jacket with tapered trousers skims over any figure flaws . |