Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] over [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Broadcasters do try to offer advice , but it often goes right over the heads of enquirers . |
| 2 | If he heard anything he would not dream of doing anything about it but would go on gazing indifferently over the heads of his sheep . |
| 3 | ‘ We pulled out all the stops to produce extra stock needed to meet the charter flights , so the paint could be flown in over the weekends . ’ |
| 4 | Werner was in his late forties with a short , stocky physique , thinning brown hair and a neatly trimmed russet moustache that tapered down over the corners of his mouth . |
| 5 | The Museum , although having a modern exterior , was originally built around a Moorish bath-house Commemorative plaques of the Rock 's historical past have been posted all over the streets and buildings . |
| 6 | ‘ Leaked all over the pages . ’ |
| 7 | And he clips them in and he goes all over the cars . |
| 8 | But the main deterrent is that in much of Russia and Ukraine the bureaucrats , Servicemen and scientists who rode roughshod over the locals while living ‘ abroad ’ can not find homes or jobs . |
| 9 | The simple service has not altered basically over the years . |
| 10 | The resulting scene was bizarre , as ninety skinheads moved slowly over the stones , heads down like rooting chickens , with the occasional flurry of movement as somebody found a Marlboro butt . |
| 11 | ( Do this by pencilling over the side of the paper , turning it over on to the icing and then pressing gently over the lines again . ) |
| 12 | Manpower had come down over the years from 470,000 in 1960 to 215,000 twenty years later , but the business was still over-staffed . |
| 13 | There were American military bases scattered all over the Islands : they were there to protect the Pacific . |
| 14 | Many will recall the church as it was , for there is no indication that it changed greatly over the years . |
| 15 | ‘ There were people climbing all over the graves with cameras . |
| 16 | Channel shares had varied somewhat over the years , quite apart from the changes caused by the introduction of BBC2 and Channel 4 ( Table 6.18 ) . |
| 17 | He was said to have had a family in Belgium at one point , known Janke Adler , met Gauguin in a park , scribbled all over the statues at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts when a student in Paris , and lost all his money when the Japanese had the bad taste to conquer his rubber plantations sometime during the confused struggle for Manchuria during the opening stages of the last big one . |
| 18 | More recently , it was impossible to forget how he personally had been let down over the reserves pledged for the first phase at Verdun . |
| 19 | Bill vomits all over the controls . |
| 20 | This proved to be quite unacceptable , and the French Code moved progressively over the years towards allowing judges more and more discretion to vary punishments on precisely these grounds . |
| 21 | But the elephants went gaily dancing and trumpeting away over the mountains , through Roumania and Georgia , through Turkey , Iran , and Afghanistan , until they came to their native land . |
| 22 | They bumped off over the cobbles . |
| 23 | Those leafing through their history books for an earlier model for the current recession could linger fruitfully over the pages that cover the 1870s . |
| 24 | Do schools take their small-scale budgetary approaches , built up over the years by dealing with capitation , or do they reappraise their resource management approach ? |
| 25 | But the lesson of the Kennedy case is that if you have the chance to take another job before your redundancy has been confirmed , you may have to choose between safeguarding your future and cashing in on the job rights built up over the years in your present employment . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Bardul uses this chamber to store an amazing range of things which he has picked up over the years in the hope that one day they might be useful . |
| 29 | The computer part of the study has been my personal research interest , but it has also over the years provided stimulating final-year projects for students in the Engineering Mathematics Department . |
| 30 | Beneath the shady colonnades built out over the pavements , fat Chinese stripped to the waist like living Buddhas sat flicking their abaci behind high mounds of fruits , foodstuffs , silks , porcelains , hardware and a dozen other commodities . |