Example sentences of "[adv] over the [noun sg] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any sort of boat could have been used to ferry a body to midstream and to put it gently over the side in darkness . |
| 2 | Armed only with a sketchbook , Olwen travels all over the country in search of botanical gardens and interesting conservatories . |
| 3 | Mrs Boatman will certainly not be expecting her potential charges at Northumberland to be chasing all over the country in search of titles . |
| 4 | It would be all over the organisation in minutes . |
| 5 | This museum has the biggest collection of instruments from all over the world in Europe . |
| 6 | They 've got beers from all over the world in Budgens , Mexican , goodness knows what |
| 7 | The thousands of items on her shopping list are brought in from all over the world in quantities that could feed a small town — 70 tonnes of sausages , 300 tonnes of tomatoes , 250,000 pints of milk , six million eggs and 350,000 litres of fresh orange juice . |
| 8 | Vast amounts of capital and capacity were installed all over the world in expectation of continuing rising demand and no technological change . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Species superficially resembling Terebratula maxima may be found all over the world in rocks going back at least to the Jurassic period . |
| 11 | A company called Worldwide Tours produces a publication called Special Interest Tours , which covers holidays all over the world in categories from Adventure/Activity to Wine Tasting Festivals . |
| 12 | In Latin America , the Second Vatican Council was followed up by a meeting of bishops from all over the continent in Medellin , Colombia . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It 's not just in my area they 're all over the place in Scotland as well , so |
| 15 | The books are lying about all over the place in Shellerton . |
| 16 | Despite the fact that spiders are all over the place in Dostoevsky , not just in Svidrigailov 's dirty bathhouse vision of Eternity , and that urban potted plants go back to the beginning in Poor People , we are here firmly inside Crime and Punishment in its abandoned first-person narrative form ( ‘ I am on trial and will tell all ’ ) : Petersburg evenings and their hanging summer light , noises from below , happy workmen , blessed ‘ living life ’ elsewhere , a lonely man in pain passing through gates , over thresholds , slipping up and down staircases , the buzzing By of Raskolnikov 's dream and his awakening , intense time-consciousness alternating with time-oblivion . |
| 17 | Although he was hitting the ball all over the place in practice , Seve was figuring out which side of the fairways to miss on a lot of holes , and places where he could n't go at all . |
| 18 | They twinkled all over the hull in patterns which raced backwards and forwards and disappeared . |
| 19 | ‘ Probably you as well , Sir , ’ I replied , ‘ Your own trench is just over the wall in Brigade H.Q ’ He glared up at me and before he could say anything I beat a hasty retreat . |
| 20 | Nowadays it comes from the Norfolk Maltings , with hops from just over the border in Worcestershire ... |
| 21 | Rosy-walled Urbino and the fairytale Castle of Gradara beckon from just over the border in Marche . |
| 22 | Two , or three , of them are in , or moving into , the far from populous row of flats , just over the river in South London , which is inhabited by Patrick and Jenny , and by a stunning , boring wife who affords Patrick one of the novelist 's turmoils in a vulgarly-appointed borrowed flat some miles to the north . |
| 23 | Just over the mountain in Kentucky is Harlan County , where in 1973 the miners fought a long and bitter strike . |
| 24 | Ruth pulled the coverlet straight over the bed in No. 4 . |
| 25 | More still are for sale legally over the counter in shops like the Brass Rail on La Brea , the store that sold guns to the Black Panthers in the 1960s and where I watched white and Korean men wearing jeans queuing to buy . |