Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [adv] over the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flora put her hands over her ears and began to jump about all over the kitchen . |
| 2 | Where death is concerned , rationality does n't necessarily fly out of the window but does appear to hover rather uncertainly over the sill . |
| 3 | Another point for them to remember is not to speak directly at the microphone but to aim instead just over the top of it ; this is to reduce the pick-up of breath noises and the distortion of plosive consonants . |
| 4 | It started to rain again , a light drizzle that caused umbrellas to pop up all over the place . |
| 5 | It will allow him and Mr Yegor Gaidar , First Deputy Prime Minister and the architect of the reforms , to press ahead concertedly over the summer . |
| 6 | ‘ They said the programme was going to go out all over the worldbut we never saw it — we have n't got a TV , you see . |
| 7 | She felt all right now and when Tucker came as close as he could to her , confidentially crooking his finger , she was only too pleased to lean precariously forward over the dock , ear to his lips . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Paul was a young dentist whose dental practice enabled him to travel widely all over the world . |
| 10 | He began to speak out loud over the sound of the copious running water ; he congratulated himself for not crying in public , he congratulated himself for not getting hurt , for not letting himself be assaulted on the way home , for not letting anyone corner him or get him down on the floor or up against a wall but for keeping walking instead . |