Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [verb] [adv] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assumption made is that the capital gain or loss occurs evenly over the remaining life of the bond . |
| 2 | Its principal hall , which still stands , is as long and as narrow as a ship , with delicately carved kiosks and balconies projecting out over the lake . |
| 3 | On these mornings her freckled face was blanched , and she sat motionless at the breakfast table , staring sightlessly into a cup of cold , wrinkle-skinned coffee , while her long red hair gradually slithered out of the nest of twists she had knotted it into , and hairgrips pinged out over the floor and the table around her . |
| 4 | They had reached the further side of the field during this animated discussion and Meredith hopped nimbly over the gate with twice the speed and dexterity with which she had negotiated the stile . |
| 5 | The noise brought Jacqui to the door and light spilled out over the scene . |
| 6 | The brown paper bag tied with white string hit the pavement , split and corn went all over the place . |
| 7 | Needless to say I was not allowed to forget this incident and cartoons appeared all over the ship . |
| 8 | The Greater London Association for Pre-Retirement ( address on page 154 ) publishes Something Different To Do which lists unusual interests and organisations to contact all over the country . |
| 9 | She raised it high in the air and brought it down with a crash right on the top of the wretched Bruce Bogtrotter 's head and pieces flew all over the platform . |
| 10 | Freya 's letter looked as though she had written it in a great hurry : reams and reams of handwritten scrawl , with sentences crawling up the side of the page and ideas jumping all over the place . |
| 11 | That has given momentum to the rumour that Merson and Graham clashed verbally over the player 's weight on Monday . |
| 12 | And lights flickering all over the prison . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh God , Mary ! ’ says McPherson , ‘ Oh God , Mary ! ’ — his voice is breaking with emotion — ‘ Oh God , Mary , I do n't want our kids to grow up in a world like this , with man an enemy to man , and cats crawling all over the books , in a cold water walk-up behind the subway depot . |
| 14 | do the many cables from the computers and printers trail all over the place , or are they safely hidden inside trunking ? |
| 15 | The strength of the economy has been founded on small family businesses and farms built up over the years by hard work and self-denial . |
| 16 | Parenthood brings out the worst , it seemed to him ; vicarious ambitions and frustrations raged all over the lawns and games fields of Croxford House on sports day . |
| 17 | There was brickwork and glass flying all over the place . |
| 18 | But if noise is the point at which language buckles and culture fails , then you could argue that noise occurs in moments , tiny breakages and stresses dispersed all over the surface of music , all kinds of music . |
| 19 | They seemed to have their own stools , Quiss had observed ; they carried them on their backs as they made their way from one range to another , and Quiss had seen quite violent fights and rows breaking out over the disputed ownership of one of the small three-legged platforms . |
| 20 | It 's like some piece of nineteenth-century allegorical sculpture : Religion and Science Watching Together over the Body of Sin . |
| 21 | ‘ There 's absolutely no one there but tourists swarming all over the place . ’ |