Example sentences of "[vb pp] over all the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sagging plank bookshelves covered most of the walls , with papers and magazines scattered over all the flat surfaces . |
| 2 | let me read those verses again , he says my flock wandered through all the mountains and on every high hill , and my flock was scattered over all the surface of the earth , there was no one to search or seek for them . |
| 3 | The drapes were drawn over all the windows , the enormous marble-topped table that dominated the room lit by overhead lamps , the wash of their light thrown up on the six members , two of them women , sitting around it . |
| 4 | Since the cost of the highly controversial PWR programme would have been spread over all the stations built , it has now become considerably more expensive per reactor unit . |
| 5 | There were notices in Enderley Park warning strangers that the woods were private , but the villagers had always been allowed over all the estate . |
| 6 | Under the system of primogeniture it will be known from childhood that one sibling will be privileged over all the rest ; by contrast partible inheritance requires a much greater degree of co-operation between siblings in adult life , especially if they inherit land or a firm which provides them with a common livelihood . |