Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 31 | Business has been built up steadily over the last 12 years in Germany , Denmark , Spain , France , Eire and Greece , and more recently in Eastern Europe , the Czech Republic and Slovakia . |
| 32 | erm the minor awards or discretionary awards as they became and that 's erm , I was given this job and er that 's how it 's built up really over the years . |
| 33 | Very few films are about rape , although it crops up all over the place — from the narrative device launching an endless cycle of Death Wish movies , to general ’ scene-setting ’ in war movies and crime thrillers , or used with sublime insensitivity to illuminate ( male ) character : Robert De Niro raping his childhood sweetheart in Once Upon A Time In America , Bob Hoskins forcing himself on the maid in The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne . |
| 34 | It was intended to set up all over Europe ; can it , Mr Fredrikson asked rhetorically , repeat the Swedish experience ? |
| 35 | They say that the concentrated magnetic fields in sunspots spread out all over the sun somewhat after the maximum of solar activity . |
| 36 | The important thing , as John Wain was to put it years later in ‘ The Vanishing Critic ’ , looking back wonderingly over a good quarter-century at his own vanished youth , was ‘ to respond to life with one 's emotional priorities in the right order . ’ |
| 37 | All the street windows of the Olive and Dove were open , the curtains fanning out gently over window boxes and over fuchsias that dripped red flowers . |
| 38 | The sense of violence and anger , together with passionate interest , spilled out all over the place . |
| 39 | Big ideas : Sometimes the ‘ big ideas ’ of management theory become so fissile that they break out all over the place apparently independently . |
| 40 | As long as the controls are there to make sure they 're not wandering around all over the place which one hears about Group 4 and their reputation for letting people go which has become a bit of a joke . |
| 41 | ‘ We can eat later , ’ Leila called , trying to keep order over the group who were wandering about all over the place . |
| 42 | Seems to be wandering about all over the place ! |
| 43 | ‘ It 's funny to sit here in the warm sunshine , and think of all that going on here over the centuries . ’ |
| 44 | There was so much going on all over the mission , more often than not organized by the people themselves . |
| 45 | Research on methods for controlling pests without chemicals is going on all over the world and the latest greenfly predator to come under scientific scrutiny is the lacewing . |
| 46 | Then she noticed the lights going on all over the school but thought no more about it . |
| 47 | ‘ I like to think that it is going on all over Masailand in fifty thousand kraals at this moment . ’ |
| 48 | While the weight of the waste we all throw away has been going down slightly over the last twenty years , ( because things like glass , plastic bottles and cans have become thinner ) , the volume of waste has been rising . |
| 49 | Going in all over that 's the position anyway ! |
| 50 | There 's loads of new garages going in all over the place . |
| 51 | A flock of chattering sparrows came over the Cages , landed on the grass by the litter bin where Woil had taken stance , and then twittered off again over the tigers ' cages . |
| 52 | Some of them have got arms going off all over the place . |
| 53 | No we 're not all rushing off all over the place although the men and s some of the women you know we have gone off and they still I mean the men were in South Wales last week . |
| 54 | Sicked up all over the hideous tangerine carpet . |
| 55 | If Stalin 's architectural taste was the chief influence on the new buildings going up all over Bucharest , Ceauşescu 's still more ambitious scheme to ‘ systematize ’ the rural life of Romania , announced in March 1988 , owed more to Stalin 's successor , Nikita Khruschev , and even to Karl Marx himself . |
| 56 | For months afterwards copies of forms turned up all over the Manchester office . |
| 57 | Ride to Langholm in Eskdale this first night , then lie up there over the morrow . |
| 58 | Slack planning laws mean hotels are growing up all over the place , said Nick — who quickly threw out his own idea that the West has all the answers to the problems . |
| 59 | They 're growing up all over the place and as you say , Ernie he he he did say about education but whose gon na run education in the future same as social services , you 'll soon find they 'll social services up into the health service . |
| 60 | Yeah I know but they do n't turn up and you get all tangled up all over the place |