Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [coord] [adv] over the " in BNC.
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1 | A QUARTER of top managers received pay rises of 21pc or more over the past year , according to a survey out yesterday . |
2 | It should be out of hand and all over the bloody media by now . |
3 | The south-westerly wind carried the gas away from Northwich but directly over the nearby villages of Lostock Gralam and Wincham . |
4 | Then again , it is always possible they tokenised the ban a ) because they felt they could get away with it ; b ) because the stars involved are too big to lose ( especially the photogenic Krabbe ) from the firmament of German sport ; c ) because if it could all be made to look like a mistake , world athletics might look that much cleaner ; d ) because they feared a backlash from the disenfranchised trio , in the form of wholesale revelations about the extent of drug use in athletics , both in Germany and all over the world ; and e ) arising perhaps out of D , they do n't feel like visiting a heavy punishment on their own girls , when there are many others the world over who are equally deserving of banishment . |
5 | This pattern of life was being copied in Britain and all over the motorized world with greater or less fidelity . |
6 | Once upon a time teams from Britain and all over the world were seen under the lights . |
7 | Extensive building schemes were projected not only in Rome and in Italy but all over the Empire . |
8 | The route inland , now followed by a railway and a modern road , leads to Mostar and then over the Ivan Pass to Sarajevo , the capital of Bosnia . |
9 | Excursions : Amongst the pre-bookable excursions we offer , trips to Innsbruck and then over the Brenner Pass to Vipiteno in Italy is one of the most popular . |
10 | I will not make use of the ransom theory in my retelling of the drama , but I shall cling on to the primitive belief , which I believe to be the correct biblical one , that God 's atonement in incarnation and cross was the crucial victory in the Great Battle not only over sin but also over the Devil and the powers of darkness . |