Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [adv] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 ’ |
| 2 | And I saw come just over the top of the doors as well . |
| 3 | I have seen frequently over the last year and I have been very grateful for her friendship , not to mention the clothes she has lent me which her daughter has outgrown . |
| 4 | And also I think we should record our admiration at how she has coped really over the last few years |
| 5 | yeah , she says , she says spitting all over the place |
| 6 | Would you have her dragged up by a succession of au pairs and housekeepers while you went gallivanting all over the world ? |
| 7 | You 've conducted all over the world , including one place in India where you told the orchestra to play forte throughout in order to defeat the noise of the air-conditioning , the Vatican , and the great open-air theatre at Epidaurus in Greece . |
| 8 | She had gone well over the half-hour . |
| 9 | The great problem we face is that obviously the authorities in South Africa do n't want the picture to be made , and we 're shooting it in Zimbabwe , where we 've been made very welcome , and erm the difficulties is the creation of South Africa in Zimbabwe , which means you have to go all over the place . |
| 10 | Well we try to span right over the range of science . |
| 11 | We had talked already over the telephone about her radical decision a few months ago to begin wearing the traditional Muslim dress , and how relieved she had felt since changing what she wore , feeling that she was ‘ expressing something she had felt all along ’ . |
| 12 | Mr Deputy Speaker I 'm just about to come on the South Wales police but I will answer the point directly , er I and my honourable friend the parliamentary secretary are always willing to discuss with local government , matters relating to local government finance and we have done so over the months leading up to this settlement and my honourable and right honourable friends in the Home Office are always willing to discuss matters on the police er where they are important and warrant a ministerial meeting and that again has happened recently with the Home Office min minister discussing this very issue . |
| 13 | Then through the use of secondary picketing , frequently associated with intimidation and physical violence ( such as we have seen repeatedly over the past decade in connection with the miners ' strikes , the Shrewsbury incidents , Grunwick , the lorry drivers ' strike ) , unions become a threat to personal freedom . |
| 14 | Now speaking to you , as chairman of the G M B parliamentary group I can tell you that we have met twice over the last few weeks on this issue of modernization and we are agreed on the need to avoid a damaging public row from which everybody yes including the unions , will lose . |
| 15 | ‘ We have expanded rapidly over the past few years and have now outgrown our existing factory , ’ said David Gray , chairman and managing director of the Saltofix Group . |
| 16 | We have arrived exactly over the quarter-point from a position slightly south of our line 's origin ( i.e. , from the downwind leg at Gransden ) so must adjust our heading slightly for the next leg to the half-way mark . |
| 17 | We have celebrated all over the world — in the Diaspora outside Palestine , and inside Palestine too , in the Yishuv itself . |
| 18 | You can imagine that some drivers er went the wrong way , and it was just that they , they just did n't concentrate on the run but nowadays they seem to run all over the town . |
| 19 | The soldiers bent over to form the arches but they were no good as they kept moving all over the place and there seemed to be no rules or sense of order to the game . |
| 20 | Never again will be they allowed to ride rough-shod over the wishes of English cricket-lovers . ’ |
| 21 | Liz Clifton the gallery organiser says the work is very skilled and they 've looked all over the country to find things . |
| 22 | Thousands of Poles settled here after the last war , but they 've worked hard over the years to keep in touch with their cultural roots . |
| 23 | And erm I think they 've been I think they 've changed really over the months I think all of us have as well and erm well that 's how it started anyway . |
| 24 | They had gone all over the place ; peeking into the Oval Office ( but the little rope was across , Hakim said ) ; stopping on the stairs to look at a picture called The Canine Cabinet , in which North pointed out a drowsing member and said it was Casey ; and into the Roosevelt Room , where North showed the young Iranian the Nobel Prize won by Theodore Roosevelt for negotiating peace between the Russians and the Japanese . |
| 25 | Indeed , if anything , spiritually they had become closer over the past seven years . |
| 26 | They had got together over the weekend to discuss the implications of the confidential letter the two Americans had received from Randy Mueller on behalf of Nate Cocello . |
| 27 | Something they have proved consistently over the last ten years . |
| 28 | Football hooliganism is not a particularly new phenomenon , nor is it a peculiarly British problem , it has occurred all over the world . |
| 29 | Cos it starts going all over the place . |
| 30 | On this day he was gliding home to our airfield and only just made it back with less than a hundred feet as he arrived flying downwind over the boundary . |