Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was so much going on all over the mission , more often than not organized by the people themselves . |
| 2 | Research on methods for controlling pests without chemicals is going on all over the world and the latest greenfly predator to come under scientific scrutiny is the lacewing . |
| 3 | Another hotly contested tournament was the Copa de Republic , a vast knock-out competition which went on all over the country from November to April . |
| 4 | Lights came on all over the Ship . |
| 5 | ‘ And I presume this sort of thing goes on all over the country ? ’ |
| 6 | Lights began to go on all over Princedale Road . |
| 7 | Then she noticed the lights going on all over the school but thought no more about it . |
| 8 | ‘ I like to think that it is going on all over Masailand in fifty thousand kraals at this moment . ’ |
| 9 | Taking the biscuit though was Mr Andy Preston who donned a ridiculously extravagant full length [ right down over his board ] Easter Island statue disguise and dropped in . |
| 10 | His hair came right down over his face but his eyes gleamed through it , and when he saw me he grinned a wide toothy grin , like one of those gibbons Vern was so neurotic about at the zoo . |
| 11 | The shirt comes right down over the feet , and threaded through with a woollen thread at the ankles , with tassels at the end . |
| 12 | And the darkness in this cave had a peculiar density which seemed to close right in over her , like a suffocating blanket . |
| 13 | If you do n't there 's plenty of people out there that do and they 'll walk right all over you to get what they want . |
| 14 | Comes back and like blood , right all over the front of that doorstep |
| 15 | ‘ Mike Hall has said my campaign is effectively all over I just ca n't believe it . |
| 16 | Could it be that our assumption that matter and energy are returned to the Universe in discrete regions is wrong , that in fact they are returned piecemeal all over the Universe ? |
| 17 | Similar disasters are scattered piecemeal all over Britain , on bomb sites and over the slums they were built to clear . |
| 18 | The arguments within the Thatcher administration went on apace over whether to swing the axe fiercely into public spending in the winter of 1980–1 , with ministers like Prior , Pym , Walker , and Carrington arguing the case for maintaining public expenditure and investment , monetarists outside the government like Alan Budd urging far more stringent monetary restraint , and Sir Geoffrey Howe at the Treasury buffeted about in between . |
| 19 | Paul was a young dentist whose dental practice enabled him to travel widely all over the world . |
| 20 | This theory of the global system , then , revolves around the perceived necessity for global capitalism to continually increase production and international trade , to guarantee the political conditions for this to occur uninterruptedly all over the world , and to create in people the need to want to consume all the products that are available , on a permanent basis . |
| 21 | He made no reply , but his fingers picked at the lace of her nightgown and his hands found their way stealthily in over her breasts . |
| 22 | That increases the surface tension on the top of the coffee — or is it the specific gravity ? — so that when you dribble the cream slowly down over the back of the spoon it stays on the top . ’ |
| 23 | He put one hand over his mouth , then drew it slowly down over his throat onto his chest . |
| 24 | She watched him now take his hand and draw it slowly down over his face , stretching the pouches under his eyes in the process . |
| 25 | Putting his hands on her shoulders , he drew them slowly down over the full curves , feeling , weighing , drawing a fingertip across the tightening nipples . |
| 26 | The day before our return , as we looked out over the battlements , we saw a succession of thick black clouds driving slowly in over the sand flats and camel grass . |
| 27 | One of the most ideal representatives of the Chaetodonite family for the beginner 's aquarium , and one that has been kept successfully all over the world , is the Threadfin Butterfly ( Chaetodon auriga ) . |
| 28 | His eyes were still trailing indecently all over her , his voice hoarse . |
| 29 | ‘ If you watch telly , you 'll know there 's people lying dead all over the world , ’ said Constance . |
| 30 | It is " recursive " because the same rule ( in this case a branching rule ) is applied locally all over the growing tree . |