Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They met again over the years , too . |
| 2 | She drew in her head , shut the windows , pulled the heavy cream linen curtains , and switched on the lamps ; they glowed cheerfully over the primrose chair covers and the yellow silk bed quilt , upon which Adam lay naked . |
| 3 | They twinkled all over the hull in patterns which raced backwards and forwards and disappeared . |
| 4 | They stopped just over the brow of a hill . |
| 5 | After a while the gentle rocking as they moved smoothly over the dark water , the beauty and romance of the night , began to work a subtle magic , and unconsciously she relaxed . |
| 6 | Crouched in the shadows , Scathach watched , but his eyes were on Tallis , not on her fingers as they moved swiftly over the charm . |
| 7 | ‘ They dive all over the place . |
| 8 | ‘ They seed all over the place and have the morals of tom cats , so are found in every flower bed , skulking behind hedges , peering round gate posts , naturalising in any open space . |
| 9 | While most participants perceived the problem they differed somewhat over the matter of its resolution . |
| 10 | They do do a lot , they travel all over the country , er , and I think it 's a worthwhile thing , I mean , you see the kids dressed up smart . |
| 11 | ‘ They travel all over the North-East watching matches , marking pitches and putting nets up , entirely voluntary the only payment they get is a match ticket . |
| 12 | I mean they travel all over the world these people . |
| 13 | They landed well over the ditch and as Artemis gathered him up , she looked ahead and saw that hounds , her father and his huntsmen were all swinging right and heading towards a line of big hedges in the Vale . |
| 14 | ‘ Now remember , lads , ’ he briefed them as they scuttled purposefully over the rough rocky ground , ‘ this is n't some parasite we 're searching for , it 's a Chelonian officer . |
| 15 | For two perfect Sundays they scrambled side-by-side over the lichen-dappled rocks of the valley wall , the aquamarine sky above reflected in the ribbon of sea below them . |
| 16 | So why are n't they crawling all over the place ? ’ |
| 17 | If you generally want the views of the public it is no good trying to false those views through a straight jacket of your own to make it what you think there views should be unless of course they go right over the top in which they I do n't think that 's happened so far . . |
| 18 | yes , that 's the money supply and measures , the measures of money supply I 'm sure you 'll be okay you should beat what I got anyway , cos I saw it sort of cold I could see you were put into shits of boredom , they go totally over the top most of the time my parents |
| 19 | He said ; They go all over the world to Japan and the United States . |
| 20 | thing and her dad 's got a country and western music I mean he , they go all over the bloody place . |
| 21 | While Soviet , liberal and libertarian accounts each attribute a role of enormous importance to the intelligenty , they differ profoundly over the significance of that role . |
| 22 | ‘ They went right over the top . |
| 23 | ‘ They went right over the top . |
| 24 | Later on they went all over the house , assessing what they might be able to sell , finding out just what Adam 's inheritance amounted to . |
| 25 | Good morning ladies and gentlemen pshoow and they , they went all over the place . |
| 26 | But because of the height they looked right over the roof of the main building of Anpetuwi Lodge . |
| 27 | ‘ They looked all over the state . |
| 28 | The effect of all such variations was to make it in the interests of publishers not to specialize in one type of paper but , as they did increasingly over the post-war decades , to spread their interests across morning , evening and weekly papers — and , in a few cases , Sundays . |
| 29 | They emerged gradually over a period of half a century , culminating in his book Two New Sciences , which was first published in 1638 , almost a century after the publication of Copernicus 's major work . |
| 30 | They ran quickly over the snow and pulled the big sledges from the ship onto the ice . |