Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] over [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colin Falck 's Cat Gone from Memorabilia ( Taxus , £5.95 ) , by contrast , goes courageously over the top in its eloquent last verse demonstration of how death and depression transfer emotion and unhinge reason : Come back my love . |
| 2 | They twinkled all over the hull in patterns which raced backwards and forwards and disappeared . |
| 3 | Vast amounts of capital and capacity were installed all over the world in expectation of continuing rising demand and no technological change . |
| 4 | The latter has just over a length in hand on the watch and one could not fault her smart performance last time from the trap three she occupies once again . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ I have taken to colour like a new lover , ’ he pronounced unconvincingly over a cappuccino in the sparse urban palazzo that doubles as his office and town house . |
| 7 | Very frequently he was away from home , sampling the forms of service offered by the various high-church ecclesiastics in the area , driving determinedly over the countryside in a little red Mini that had become used to the eccentricities of his driving technique . |
| 8 | We must remember , however , that just as all the alpine chains of Europe are now known to have been still pushing forward over the molasse in late Miocene times , so in places such as the Apennines , movements were still going on as late as Quaternary times . |
| 9 | At the same time I think some people are going well over the top in slagging off Wilko . |
| 10 | David Sutherfield — who was a political counsellor at the US embassy in east Beirut until American diplomats were evacuated a month ago — arrived here over the weekend in the company of another American official for talks with Hussein Husseini , the Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament . |
| 11 | Armed only with a sketchbook , Olwen travels all over the country in search of botanical gardens and interesting conservatories . |
| 12 | I do not feel able to speculate as to whether or not it will recover sufficiently over the period in which we are dealing as to be again a and situation . |
| 13 | Hundreds of trials followed all over the land in the wake of Chelmsford . |
| 14 | The voice of reason , speaking clearly over the cacophony in his head , warned him to back off . |
| 15 | They do not fluctuate all over the place in an uncertain fashion . |
| 16 | Species superficially resembling Terebratula maxima may be found all over the world in rocks going back at least to the Jurassic period . |
| 17 | On this aspect of the story Mr Sale is an invaluable guide and teacher , but he goes well over the top in his determination to present Columbus as the representative of a devilish western world driven only by the desire to rape , grab and despoil a land of innocence . |
| 18 | If you generally want the views of the public it is no good trying to false those views through a straight jacket of your own to make it what you think there views should be unless of course they go right over the top in which they I do n't think that 's happened so far . . |
| 19 | It was Mellor , as junior Home Office Minister , who was left by Mrs Thatcher to pick up the pieces when the last government went badly over the top in its determination to reshape television by deregulation , irrespective of quality . |
| 20 | Mrs Boatman will certainly not be expecting her potential charges at Northumberland to be chasing all over the country in search of titles . |
| 21 | Another thing which makes Nanking look less cluttered is the absence of the horse- and donkey-drawn vehicles which one saw all over the place in North China , including the main streets of Peking and Sian . |
| 22 | White worm are small thin worms which can reach just over an inch in length and are of course white in colour . |
| 23 | The Cretaceous genus Inoceramus sometimes grew well over a metre in length ; fragments of this particular genus are frequently important components of the soft , white Cretaceous limestone known as chalk . |
| 24 | Coffin and Inspector Paul Lane were talking privately over a drink in the Victory Arms , a pub whose windows gave them a view of the sails of the Cutty Sark . |
| 25 | ‘ When I do go out somewhere special I like to go completely over the top in the glamour stakes — different hairdo , glittery accessories and high heels ’ |
| 26 | However much controversy may have arisen subsequently over the presence in each of these formations of emigres , by far the most obvious group of non-Soviet nationals involved were these Germans . |
| 27 | The Yes/No People , creators of Night of 100 Drums and Beat The Cycle , will be stomping , banging , abseiling and cavorting all over the Dome in this newly commissioned largescale version of Stomp . |
| 28 | The legal adviser helps to negotiate the firm 's contracts ( and may have to travel all over the world in order to do so ) , keeps it right on matters of company law and employment law , pilots takeovers , etc. , and may , on a wider front , advise on what is proper conduct within a system of self-regulation adopted within the industry by means of a Code of Practice . |