Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After shrinking slightly over the past few years , the gap grew to nearly $10 billion during the first four months of this year , up from a little over $6 billion for the same period in 1990 . |
| 2 | After climbing steadily over the years , the percentage supported by government reached a peak in England and Wales of 66.5 per cent in 1975/6 . |
| 3 | Retail sales volumes are also expected to have come off the boil last month after rising strongly over the past quarter . |
| 4 | I asked Danny ( Knight ) to put down at the first chance after crossing back over the Channel , and he did ’ . |
| 5 | Its summit was a good vantage point for looking out over the course . |
| 6 | At the end of the evening , an African headmaster commented , ‘ If we can multiply this kind of gathering all over the country , our political differences will vanish . ’ |
| 7 | She could n't resist the challenge of swimming back over the tide when the boys suggested it . |
| 8 | Instead of turning left over the canal bridge which would have taken him into the village , he turned right and began walking out of the village on the Brookend road . |
| 9 | He accused the council of riding roughshod over the views of Middlesbrough people . |
| 10 | The press scoffed at his walks in the Kalahari Desert , at his fascination with lost and ancient tribes ; but experiences like that , plus a lifetime of travelling all over the world , seeing underdeveloped and overdeveloped countries and every kind of political regime , has brought him to this viewpoint . |
| 11 | The egg in the mixture makes it stay put , instead of running all over the place as most cheese mixtures do . |
| 12 | Speaking of Deano — everyone I talked felt that as we had paid £2.7 million for a centre forward would n't it be nice if hung around near the goal or in the box for that matter instead of running all over the show and when we finally get the ball in the box there 's nobody there . |
| 13 | He had reached Blakemere , which was only two miles further on , when he pondered if he should take another direction and make his way to the river , but the thought that even this far out there 'd be a number of people on the banks today , mostly youngsters , he guessed , swimming or playing the usual dangerous game of swinging out over the river on a rope attached to a tree branch , deterred him . |
| 14 | Right you then get your baby , you 'll see the midwives doing this , you stabilize the baby pelvis , because otherwise it will just sort of go all over the place wo n't it , and this doll is , is fairly fixed , it 's not a very soft thing like a baby and you , with your hand you put your finger which is about the same length as the baby 's finger is n't it ? |
| 15 | sort of bred all over the country ? |
| 16 | It also accused the trade and industry department of behaving unprofessionally over the sale and the inquiry . |
| 17 | The evening came to a resounding crescendo when a standing ovation was followed by an explosive rendition of Rockin' All Over The World . |
| 18 | Is my hon. Friend aware that directors of planning all over the country and hon. Members of all parties are concerned that the number of unauthorised developments has risen from 60,000 in 1988 to more than 90,000 in 1990 ? |
| 19 | looking at the water , I think you would have to sort of climb up over the rails to fall in would n't you ? |
| 20 | If you feel like going completely over the top , why not grow some rhubarb chard near your gaudy cabbages ? |
| 21 | But now , rather like recording afresh over the existing programme on an audio or visual cassette , Sylvia had superimposed a successful situation and had thereby made a significant change in the data recognized by her subconscious . |
| 22 | Erm in connection with erm with reference to the York area housing strategy , again , there is a simple explanation , in that that that document was prepared before the current work on the City of York draft local plan , had progressed to a stage at which members had considered housing sites , and a number of sites in City Council ownership erm within the city , covering some four hundred dwellings have now been agreed by the City Council members as coming forward over the planned period for affordable housing , and in the case of two of those sites it actually requires sites to be taken out of use as public car parks , to bring them forward for development , and that is why the eleven hundred figure is actually reduced now to a seven hundred . |
| 23 | Aurally the Mondays improve all the time , they 're truly worth travelling all over the world to see … |
| 24 | Said his friend-cum-mentor , Irving Layton , in looking back over the period , ‘ I had a very sharp feeling in the early fifties that poetry in Canada had come in from the cold and was starting to gain momentum . ’ |
| 25 | The vent pipe from the hot water cylinder ( 22mm ) should rise at least 400mm above the water level in the cistern before turning down over the cistern . |
| 26 | The train departs Oxenhope at 09.00 hrs on Saturday , October 19th and calls at Ingrow and Keighley before heading out over the S & C. |
| 27 | He also needs to cap the new price so that it is prevented from rising further over the remaining four years of construction if he is to convince bankers that they should continue to support Eurotunnel . |
| 28 | Everyone develops their own favourite method , but you must be able to run , keeping the board and sail from blowing all over the place . |
| 29 | America inherited Britain 's thankless task of trying to maintain a semblance of stability in the Middle East , and has been singularly unsuccessful in doing so over the three decades that have passed since Suez . |
| 30 | My wife is expecting and I 'm building a new house near Ballymena , so there was no sense really in chasing all over the country . |