Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though Jackson was the first to congratulate Olympic champion McKoy , the disappointment was written all over his face . |
| 2 | Though Jackson was the first to congratulate the Olympic champion , the disappointment was written all over his face . |
| 3 | Though Jackson was the first to congratulate the Olympic champion , the disappointment was written all over his face . |
| 4 | The command was tossed languidly over his shoulder and immediately loaded crossbows were brought up and aimed at our chests . |
| 5 | And I can always remember it was in the middle of winter and put on the , the four that bit circular bit put it into the four wheel drive and it came up there wonderful and the , yet er going in we were and the other car was swaying all over the place . |
| 6 | Roger led up and rightwards onto the ice and it was quickly apparent that in places the snow was lying directly over rock , with what ice there was insecurely bonded to the smooth slabs . |
| 7 | The wind was hissing loudly over them , whipping off their tops and spraying them into a conveyor-belt of sand , an opaque draught , streaming across the road and up and over the dunes on the other side . |
| 8 | ‘ There were none left , ’ he protested but Mum had moved on and Linda Paterson was grinning all over her face . |
| 9 | The Peugeot was found just over a mile away in Twinbrook . |
| 10 | However the cry was raised all over the floor : " They 've removed their team leader " Some thirty young dealers applauded the courage of these two . |
| 11 | Er the American civil war was fought essentially over federalism er involving many millions of men and er in which over half a million men died . |
| 12 | By 3 p.m. , the explosions were so loud that they were audible 240 kilometres away ; by 5 p.m. they were so stupendous that the sound was carrying all over Java . |
| 13 | The dried blood from my nose was smeared all over the front of my mouth and it cracked when I tried to move my lips . |
| 14 | English parchment was needed all over Europe , whilst in England French wines would always be sold . |
| 15 | Second , also connected with the dual impetus of the Tory boom and the oil-price rise , inflation was accelerating rapidly over 1974–75 . |
| 16 | That pattern was duplicated all over the subcontinent . |
| 17 | It was late August and the first south-easterly gale of the season was blowing strongly over Mykines , crashing into the rocky ‘ geo ’ which is the island 's only landing-place . |
| 18 | This man was peering winningly over the rampart . |
| 19 | A MAN was arrested yesterday over the murder of schoolgirl Lesley Molseed 17 years ago . |
| 20 | A FOURTH man was arrested yesterday over the Maxwell fraud scandal . |
| 21 | Tommy was climbing all over it ! |
| 22 | It was usually something quite silly and trivial , like leaving the taps running in the bath huts or over-stuffing the dustbins so that mess and litter was spread all over the ground , but sometimes someone 's carelessness resulted in the whole inadequate drainage system being completely overloaded and clogged up . |
| 23 | Campari was cascading silently over the rim of her glass , and dripping in a slow red trickle from the table to the patio . |
| 24 | In 1983 Japan was importing well over four-fifths of its energy requirements . |
| 25 | Cherry was spread all over the chaise longue , looking a little more or less natural in his crepe-de-Walthamstow gown . |
| 26 | The needle was hovering just over the red . |
| 27 | As Colonel Windsor laid aside his pen , dawn was breaking murkily over the County Longford village of Granard , some 150 miles north of Cambridge Barracks . |
| 28 | The dreadful cries ceased as a hand was clapped roughly over the young woman 's mouth . |
| 29 | A hand was clapped roughly over her mouth , and she was almost lifted up by the arms and moved at a run back into the house , where Mrs Prynn was waiting in her nightcap and gown , with the trap door into the cellar open and the key in her hand . |
| 30 | Immediately a hand was placed firmly over her head and turned it to face the front again . |