Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they crept slowly forward over the plain his eyes searched for those tiny villages made of mud with their bamboo groves and their ponds ; and though the plain was perfectly flat the villages were somehow hidden in its folds , blending with it . |
| 2 | Many thatched cottages were built on the brow of a hill overlooking the sea ; and a large potato-field , divided into elongated sections , gave ample scope for many Lewis families to prove that union is strength , for they were busily engaged lifting the crop : each family group was complete in itself ; those who had the most children got most quickly over the ground : many hands make light work , and young backs bend easily . |
| 3 | ‘ And I presume this sort of thing goes on all over the country ? ’ |
| 4 | The gun roared and the clay disintegrated somewhere out over the field . |
| 5 | It looks as if there 's a wall sticking right out over the shingle . ’ |
| 6 | The position of the outlets on the fascia board can be determined by a plumbline hanging down centrally over the gully or drain inlet . |
| 7 | Part of the rope still swung there , hanging down directly over the water . |
| 8 | For some time all three moved on quietly over the grass , while the shadows grew stronger and the wood-pigeons clattered among the distant trees . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Before Gifford had his stroke they used to go painting together all over the place . |
| 11 | Slorne became still and took stance on the branch quite near to Creggan , her head tilting to one site , ant her eyes staring out at the sunset sky that rose massively now over the Cages . |
| 12 | He straightened up easily as he spoke , and the lidded gaze moved laconically down over the outline of her body beneath the thin bedcover . |
| 13 | A deep depression with a centre varying between 968 and 978 millibars moved from the Faroes to the mouth of the Elbe , while behind it a ridge of high pressure built up strongly over the Atlantic . |
| 14 | I suppose it built up slowly over the years … ’ |
| 15 | The divorce rate rose fairly steadily over the decade apart from a notable , but not entirely sustained , increase after the liberalising of the laws in 1984 . |
| 16 | The sun had come out fully over the abbey mills and the narrow bridge of Meole brook , and in the foregate there was bustle enough . |
| 17 | They have discovered that problems that they thought had to be brought in person to a bureau , can in fact be carried out successfully over the telephone . |
| 18 | Not like now with all these casualties walking around all over the place , getting into fights . ’ |
| 19 | While he , Owen , was tearing around all over the place like a bloody lunatic ! |
| 20 | Mildred realized that her head had reappeared , which must have looked rather alarming , bobbing about all over the place with no body attached . |
| 21 | And , yes , there are a couple of lines around the eyes , and a grey hair or twenty ( at least they 're all together in a neat bunch , not lurking about all over the place ) and the neck does n't look too good in some , particularly unflattering , lights , but then I do n't suppose yours would , either . |
| 22 | Flora put her hands over her ears and began to jump about all over the kitchen . |
| 23 | They remembered uncomfortably that Tobermory moved freely all over the house and gardens , at all hours of the day and night . |
| 24 | Lights came on all over the Ship . |
| 25 | Where death is concerned , rationality does n't necessarily fly out of the window but does appear to hover rather uncertainly over the sill . |
| 26 | Feet came along smartly over the sand and dirt of the path , were cushioned briefly by the grass of the bank into inaudibility , then snapped over twigs and beech-husks . |
| 27 | You see it written down all over the place incorrectly . |
| 28 | erm the minor awards or discretionary awards as they became and that 's erm , I was given this job and er that 's how it 's built up really over the years . |
| 29 | Very few films are about rape , although it crops up all over the place — from the narrative device launching an endless cycle of Death Wish movies , to general ’ scene-setting ’ in war movies and crime thrillers , or used with sublime insensitivity to illuminate ( male ) character : Robert De Niro raping his childhood sweetheart in Once Upon A Time In America , Bob Hoskins forcing himself on the maid in The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne . |
| 30 | They say that the concentrated magnetic fields in sunspots spread out all over the sun somewhat after the maximum of solar activity . |