Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] [adv] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His room 's a dustbin with lists of objects pinned all over the walls — no , I do n't know what it means . |
| 2 | With the enclosure of the open fields and the redistribution of the land mostly in compact blocks instead of strips scattered all over the parish , one would have expected the old open-field village to disintegrate as the village farmers built new farmsteads on their allotments . |
| 3 | And there was plenty of crap strewn all over the pavement , so he had to be more careful . |
| 4 | The Dorset , Devon and Cornwall holiday areas benefited from the good summer weather and from the upgrading of pubs carried out over the last few years . |
| 5 | When we reached our hotel and unlocked a suitcase we had kept , we thought , rigidly fastened back in Devon , we were mortified to find mountains of confetti cascading all over the floor . |
| 6 | Last but by no means least , the Human Rights Sub-Committee under the chairmanship of has done an enormous amount of work on behalf of lawyers in countries where the rule of law remains somewhere over the rainbow . |
| 7 | Hundreds of trials followed all over the land in the wake of Chelmsford . |
| 8 | The ghost of Shostakovich hangs heavily over the Cello Concerto , although the Sixth Symphony , with its barrenpointed landscapes clearly points more in the direction of Kancheli . |
| 9 | He produced two large atlases of estate maps ; the Stowe Atlas of thirty-three manuscript maps on vellum , detailing estates owned by the Grenville family around Kilkhampton , and the Lanhydrock Atlas of four large volumes containing 258 manuscript maps on vellum , compiled between 1694 and 1699 , of properties scattered widely over the county belonging to the Robartes family . |
| 10 | piece of metal put up over the entrance to the compost plant please . |
| 11 | I 've g I 've got about a half a dozen sheets of paper scattered all over the place , and I 've decided to do it in this cos then I can just go to here . |
| 12 | We have a list of murders stretching back over the last two centuries for which you are responsible . ’ |
| 13 | There are quite a lot of other bits and bobs floating about , asteroids , meteors , little bits of chunks flying all over the place . |
| 14 | As a child I made these , covering the kitchen in ingredients and allowing balls of mixture to roll all over the place , only to be found six months later behind the toaster . |
| 15 | we 've done very well for escaping it , the only trouble is we have n't got the rain and now , this , this coming summer I dread to think what 's gon na happen , look how dry those fields are , just look at it if we get a wind up , if we , a wind starts to blow it 'll move a lot of this , it will just lift it up into the air , we 'll get clouds of soil blowing all over the place . |
| 16 | and erm these were poultry breeders be erm scattered all over the count er county who yes the erm accredited poultry breeding station scheme was erm initiated by the Ministry of Agriculture and erm there were a number of farms scattered all over the county erm where they were open to inspection and erm we had erm had a Mrs who went round and inspected the flocks and erm they had to reapply each year to erm sustain their accreditation |
| 17 | ‘ We have a running programme of consultation going back over the last two years , ’ she said . |
| 18 | Two or three pairs of hands roamed sensuously over the alloy frame , tentatively flexing the brakes and fiddling with the gear shift . |
| 19 | With the large number of children spread out over the country , it was inevitable that visits were infrequent . |
| 20 | Some stars can be seen that way if the conditions happen to be appropriate , but children will not get very far as astronomers unless their own resources are supplemented by those accumulated by the tradition of astronomy built up over the centuries . |
| 21 | With the other he dipped what looked like a hearthbrush into the bucket then flung its load of holy-water drops all over the pile of stones . |
| 22 | Above , in what appeared a dome of infinite proportion , a timeless expanse of grey hung menacingly over the hamlet of Elling . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll have a lot of time to go back over the past in the coming years , I suppose , wonder whether I made the right choices at the right time . ’ |