Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you came from a chapel and puritanical background of dark and moral mills where the only promised warmth was hell-fire , then — given the opportunity — you skidded all over the field like a jackpot rabbit . |
| 2 | Most of the rest of the iodine reached the population via milk , produced all over the country , that was not banned . |
| 3 | ‘ Ca n't read a sodding map , gets his human body splattered all over the street , then takes off without a by your leave or kiss my elbow . |
| 4 | The pots of paint lay splattered all over the carpet . |
| 5 | ‘ Four of them got together over a couple of decanters of port and I listened to what I could . |
| 6 | On the motor bike we rode all over the countryside , to Bathampton , Bradford-on-Avon to see the old tithe barn , to Bristol to visit the Llandoger Trow , and as far as Cheltenham Spa , Leamington and Gloucester . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Chucked all over the place . |
| 9 | They twinkled all over the hull in patterns which raced backwards and forwards and disappeared . |
| 10 | Then the almond eyes gazed fiercely over the child 's head towards Nana . |
| 11 | Such investigators as Rowntree , A. L. Bowley and L. Chiozza Money demonstrated that the disparity between rich and poor and the proportion of the population living in severe poverty changed little over the period . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Her fingers moved slowly over the paperweight . |
| 14 | Endill peered slowly over the edge of it . |
| 15 | A delicious smell of casseroled chicken , heavy with herbs and garlic , hung in the air as Ace bent professionally over the oven . |
| 16 | A mist drifted over the marsh as the moon rose slowly over the tower above . |
| 17 | ‘ Where the gas seeped weakly over the rock , ten thousand or so miles from the blasted pits of volcanic ore that blazed with the light of a thousand suns , there I made my abhorred discovery … ’ ’ |
| 18 | The proposals were due to be considered by Cabinet ten days later and ministers do not like seeing what they are to discuss plastered all over the press beforehand . |
| 19 | Many will recall the church as it was , for there is no indication that it changed greatly over the years . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Crouched in the shadows , Scathach watched , but his eyes were on Tallis , not on her fingers as they moved swiftly over the charm . |
| 22 | His eyes moved swiftly over the scene before him , registering but not acknowledging Pascoe and Dalziel . |
| 23 | Spiritual congress of this kind is , in fact , found all over the world and throughout history — as the biographies of famous Christian and other mystics confirm and occurs more often than is generally supposed in our own contemporary Western world . |
| 24 | She wandered all over the stave and produced a curious counterpoint to the tune . |
| 25 | These new towns proposed all over the country have been called ‘ a solution in search of a problem ’ by the CPRE — in other words a solution to a non-existent problem , as enough land has already been put aside for people to be housed . |
| 26 | But he only bent deeper over the picture . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | WHATEVER breast-beating occurred elsewhere over the outcome of the Waco siege , it was not to be found in Nashville , where the National Rifle Association ( NRA ) has just held its annual meeting . |
| 29 | They stopped just over the brow of a hill . |
| 30 | After his death his empire could barely be sustained by the new rulers ( including Charles the Bald and Charles the Fat — is it possible to hold an empire together when the populace is taking the mickey out of you to that extent ? ) and crumbled away over a period of two centuries . |