Example sentences of "over [adj] [noun sg] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You were all over each other on Monday morning . ’ |
| 2 | Abbey Burnfoot fished well over low water on night tides for a few decent codling . |
| 3 | Her first thought , she realised , was that she hated the idea of the police trampling all over this heaven on earth . |
| 4 | According to an Army communiqué Salvadorean " subversives " ( i.e. guerrillas of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front — Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional — FMLN ) had on May 27 , 1989 , entered a small Honduran town in the border area but had been forced back to El Salvador by a patrol ; Salvadorean aircraft and a helicopter gunship had fired into Honduran territory in pursuit of the rebels ; and a Salvadorean aircraft had flown over Honduran territory on May 29 . |
| 5 | The culmination of these efforts was a fresh initiative broadcast over Jordanian radio on Aug. 29 , which had apparently been agreed by Arafat and Saddam Hussein in Baghdad the previous day . |
| 6 | There are profound differences , obviously , between blasting birds out of the sky with a shotgun , sitting quietly on a riverbank waiting for the fish to bit , chasing foxes or stags over open country on horseback or sending dogs down a hole to dismember badgers . |
| 7 | Power firm angry over new rule on shipments |