Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv] over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather grudgingly a voice said , ‘ The Prime Minister ’ , and supporting voices were heard all over the room . |
| 2 | Two days later , when thunderstorms were muttering over the Slieve Mish and the sea crows were circling lazily over the valley , her father and brothers came for her and took her up to Ballymacadoyle Hill . |
| 3 | Savings groups were formed all over the country and children ran their own campaigns in schools . |
| 4 | He was standing next to her pebble , yelling through a megaphone at the other beetles who were scattered all over the sheet measuring up circles drawn round all the various pebbles . |
| 5 | Every St Kildan family owned a number of cleits and they were scattered all over the island , many of them convenient to the bird cliffs because ‘ fresh ’ birds were much heavier than those that had dried out , and everything had to be carried back to the village eventually . |
| 6 | During Friday 20 May and Saturday the 21st the fierce chase continued , during which some of the French ships were scattered all over the Channel ; a few , like the Spanish Armada before them , only escaped by sailing right round the British Isles . |
| 7 | Vast amounts of capital and capacity were installed all over the world in expectation of continuing rising demand and no technological change . |
| 8 | We had a bit of a party in the Met Office that night , tearful farewells were said all over the place , and I departed the next morning with my kit and a bad headache , ready for whatever Fate had in store for me . |
| 9 | They were exhibited all over the world , and appeared in London at the Egyptian Hall in 1829 . |
| 10 | Reporters and photographers were swarming all over the sanatorium that day . |
| 11 | Twenty , 50 or 100 mg were infused intravenously over a period of 90 minutes . |
| 12 | Then an attempt was made to get rid of it at 800 deg C in the west midlands but the incinerator needed to be at 1,200 deg C. The result was that the dioxins from Bolsover in the east midlands were transmitted all over the west midlands . |
| 13 | Metal castings were exported all over the world and an industrial proletariat developed very early . |
| 14 | By the 1900s , British Arts and Crafts houses were admired all over the world . |
| 15 | The new measures , similar to those in force in Britain and the US , were drawn up over the summer by Mr Lang 's Ministry , which is said to be interested in extending the French insurance model to the whole of Europe . |
| 16 | The lips were drawn back over a row of small pointed teeth in a ghastly grimace , a shriek of pain or terror . |
| 17 | The few remaining tanks of the Chelonian assault force were moving rapidly over the rock towards them . |
| 18 | Several sinuous black shapes were ghosting swiftly over the grass from the treeline opposite the front of the house . |
| 19 | She saw the building that Adolph Brückner had looked at on his arrival that day , the pain in his head threatening like the thunder clouds that were drifting back over the mountain tops . |
| 20 | The place was deserted , there was no sign of the family , smashed furniture and household goods were strewn all over the place . |
| 21 | But , after a glorious day 's exploring , by the time we turned for home the weather had become very wild , and as we approached the first barrier , waves were breaking fiercely over the road . |
| 22 | ‘ There 's a sub-heading ‘ Knickers ’ and it says ‘ Passengers complained her green knickers were flying all over the place . ’ |
| 23 | When this happened , say Hoyle and Wickramasinghe , the organic molecules within the comets were spewed out over the land . |
| 24 | These little buildings were spreading out over the savannah in a game of checkers , with the goal of linking all the pieces into a chain of sound administration . |
| 25 | Three thousand men worked here once , producing slates that were shipped all over the world from the specially built Port Dinorwic on the Menai Strait . |
| 26 | They were shipped all over the world Spain , Australia and South America being popular destinations . |
| 27 | At Chalton in Hampshire and Cowdery 's Down near Basingstoke , the buildings were more regularly laid out but not extensive enough to be called villages , while at Catholme in Staffordshire and Thirlings in Northumberland , the earlier settlements had not only been abandoned , but probably forgotten when areas of ridge and furrow were laid out over the top . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , in the late 1960s , mini-skirts were distributed all over the world and could be ( if preserved ) the index fossil for that epoch . |
| 29 | Max Jacob was homosexual , trying desperately to look distinguished in his top hat , evening dress , spats and monocle , whilst Modi 's affairs with women were known all over the quarter . |
| 30 | ‘ What were known all over the world as ‘ English gardens ’ were the most pervasive influence that England ever had on the European way of life' , wrote Lord Clark . |