Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [v-ing] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we reached our hotel and unlocked a suitcase we had kept , we thought , rigidly fastened back in Devon , we were mortified to find mountains of confetti cascading all over the floor . |
| 2 | We used to have a family of martins nesting directly over our front porch , just under my bedroom window . |
| 3 | Bloody Hitler and his crew of cut-throats tramping all over Europe . |
| 4 | We have a list of murders stretching back over the last two centuries for which you are responsible . ’ |
| 5 | There are quite a lot of other bits and bobs floating about , asteroids , meteors , little bits of chunks flying all over the place . |
| 6 | Still , we 'll get dozens of men crawling all over this building again . ’ |
| 7 | Before that there was a string of flops stretching back over years ( ‘ Police Academy 4 ’ and ‘ King Solomon 's Mines ’ would have ended most careers ) . |
| 8 | On the other hand , they do favour a horizontal row of dots moving horizontally over a vertical row of dots moving vertically . |
| 9 | These early movies are now lost , but her illustrated day book and many photographs remain — an important part of the record of women working all over Britain at the start of commercial photography . |
| 10 | I feel as if I have come to the end of a long list of jobs dating back over several months . |