Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I thought yer was sayin' that Joe 's bruvver got beaten up over Stepney . |
| 2 | So much lava flowed into the Skaftar valley that it was completely filled and lava began to spill out over the surrounding countryside . |
| 3 | The snow had drifted deep over the path that has been carved down to the chasm and we soon lost it , progressing by kicking steps into the hard snow . |
| 4 | Already , since the first stage of price liberalization in November 1990 , the cost of living had soared by over 50 per cent . |
| 5 | Jinny 's skin seemed to twitch all over her body , but she did not know why . |
| 6 | The swell had built steadily over the past half-hour . |
| 7 | A returning Heinkel of 6/KG 26 reported that its gunner had baled out over Malta for unknown reasons — there is no record of him landing safely . |
| 8 | The interchange had gone completely over Mandy 's head . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was a huge thing , hanging in the air from a beam , its duct turned to point down over one of the stalls . |
| 11 | All that can sensibly be said is that , given everything capitalism had gone through over the previous few years , a collapse of confidence was to be expected at some point . |
| 12 | Jesus ' fame had spread all over the region ; Matthew , as a man in the centre of the financial world of that place must have heard of Jesus already . |
| 13 | Security had changed drastically over the years . |
| 14 | He wanted to make a person people would love — a little man of courage and kindness , a ‘ gent ’ down on his luck — and the character became loved all over the world , as well as making all the world laugh . |
| 15 | Within seconds the blood from the gash that once been the left side of my head had poured all over the side of my face and filled up my left eye ; so that was why I could not see . |
| 16 | He and his wife had fallen out over it more than anything else . |
| 17 | In 1928 the Medical Officer reported that maternity and child welfare had developed remarkably over the last two years . |
| 18 | She knew her character had altered completely over the last few years . |
| 19 | The moment for bargain hunters to enter the market was ideal as the FTSE had slipped sharply over the past few days . |
| 20 | The pots of paint lay splattered all over the carpet . |
| 21 | Mrs Whitehouse as a television licence holder had such an interest when seeking a declaration that the Independent Broadcasting Authority had acted unlawfully over the screening of the film Scum . |
| 22 | According to a report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) in March 1990 , the economy had expanded vigorously over the past 2@1/2 years with growth averaging about 4 per cent annually , boosted in 1989 by an income tax reform [ see p. 36561 ] . |
| 23 | Most , but not all , of the islanders retreated to the mainland , returning five months later to discover that their island had grown by over a square mile and that nearly half the town had been destroyed . |
| 24 | The hand reaching out for the bell had fallen slackly over the edge of the bed . |
| 25 | By early this century , the animal game had spread all over Brazil . |
| 26 | A lock of dark hair had fallen down over his forehead and she was swept by a sudden yearning to put up her hand , feel the silken texture of it with her fingers . |
| 27 | His depression had become worse over the past year . |
| 28 | But he did look up ; those eyes that were the colour of a summer sea had moved slowly over her before returning to her face . |
| 29 | The labour camps , temperatures of 50 degrees below zero , a lifetime condemned to stare out over thousands of miles of the bleak , barren permafrost , where blindness eventually came as a minor blessing . |