Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun sg] [verb] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have a running programme of consultation going back over the last two years , ’ she said . |
| 2 | Quiz of couple goes on over murder of OAP |
| 3 | piece of metal put up over the entrance to the compost plant please . |
| 4 | Last but by no means least , the Human Rights Sub-Committee under the chairmanship of has done an enormous amount of work on behalf of lawyers in countries where the rule of law remains somewhere over the rainbow . |
| 5 | The black cloak of hair streamed now over her hips and legs . |
| 6 | She held her breath at the look of tenderness spreading slowly over Lucenzo 's face . |
| 7 | Its houses , shop , pub and post office were built on a narrow shelf of rock looking out over Start Bay , and it had a population of more than a hundred people . |
| 8 | As a child I made these , covering the kitchen in ingredients and allowing balls of mixture to roll all over the place , only to be found six months later behind the toaster . |
| 9 | The cache system survives , and I 've even added a couple of petrol bombs to one or two of the secret stores , where a likely avenue of attack comes in over terrain the bottles would smash on , but the trip-wires I 've dismantled and left in the shed . |
| 10 | You have given up your rank of Sergeant to run all over these hills . |
| 11 | And , just as the fine-needle spray of water flowed down over her shaking figure , so all sense and caution drained away from her dazed mind . |
| 12 | Above , in what appeared a dome of infinite proportion , a timeless expanse of grey hung menacingly over the hamlet of Elling . |
| 13 | At the front , two high curved windows gave a view of the square garden while at the rear one huge expanse of glass looked out over a stone wall with three niches , each containing a marble statue ; Venus , naked , one hand delicately shielding the mons Veneris , one pointing at her left nipple , a second female figure , half robed and wearing a wreath of flowers and , between them , Apollo with his lyre , laurel-crowned . |
| 14 | I 've g I 've got about a half a dozen sheets of paper scattered all over the place , and I 've decided to do it in this cos then I can just go to here . |
| 15 | Cut to shot of stuntman falling backwards over rail to the floor . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll have a lot of time to go back over the past in the coming years , I suppose , wonder whether I made the right choices at the right time . ’ |
| 17 | we 've done very well for escaping it , the only trouble is we have n't got the rain and now , this , this coming summer I dread to think what 's gon na happen , look how dry those fields are , just look at it if we get a wind up , if we , a wind starts to blow it 'll move a lot of this , it will just lift it up into the air , we 'll get clouds of soil blowing all over the place . |
| 18 | Many believed that the Liberal Labour alliance was a threat to a system of government built up over centuries and they were not prepared to see this done without at least a clear decision by the electorate . |
| 19 | Some stars can be seen that way if the conditions happen to be appropriate , but children will not get very far as astronomers unless their own resources are supplemented by those accumulated by the tradition of astronomy built up over the centuries . |
| 20 | With the other he dipped what looked like a hearthbrush into the bucket then flung its load of holy-water drops all over the pile of stones . |
| 21 | The nun was screaming now at the top of her voice ; then for a moment she became still and silent as she looked at a trickle of blood flowing down over her fingers ; and she now screeched again . |