Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contents of all of them had been pulled out and scattered all over the floor . |
| 2 | The Soviet statistics were terribly messy and scattered all over the place but Davies and Barker finally succeeded in teasing them out and knocking them into some sort of shape . |
| 3 | Montreal is an unusual city , made up of 50 villages which have grown and merged together over the years to form the modern conurbation : about 100 square kilometres in size ( 60 square miles ) , encircled by the St. Lawrence River . |
| 4 | The long flats , like the rounds , offer versatility : much colour can be loaded on the brush and drawn out over the painting surface , or shorter dabs can easily be applied and manipulated without the brush hairs giving way . |
| 5 | Palls were getting larger : no more the short-hemmed highly embroidered creature ; a huge sheet of black velvet twelve by fifteen feet , sometimes lined with white silk or a lesser-quality material of the same colour , and thrown right over the coffin and its bearers . |
| 6 | No stone rolled down the cliff that morning , and I left Euclid still snoozing on the old redwood step at about 10.50am and headed off over the bridge to Lighthouse Road , which runs along for two or three miles south of the river , through to the mouth of the Mattole and the northern tip of the King range . |
| 7 | Aboard the plane as it climbed and headed out over the Gulf of Finland she sat in a daze . |