Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun sg] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 31 | After I had left her she had spilt her cup of tea all over the bedclothes , which had soon become not only wet but cold and wet . |
| 32 | A beautiful silver starfish , with points of light all over its body , sapphire and rose-pink and silver . |
| 33 | Just as the field in sunspots suppresses the flow of radiation locally , so the spread-out field inhibits the general upflow of radiation all over the sun . |
| 34 | And the worst thing you can do is to screw it all up by putting a lot of technique all over it ! ' |
| 35 | There will be a lot of cloud again over many parts of England and Wales , although it might become a little brighter at times . |
| 36 | Paul took this message about life and the mystery of humanity all over the Mediterranean world . |
| 37 | For minor members of foreign missions , of whom ambassadors ' secretaries were the most important , gold chains continued during much of the seventeenth century to be a very common form of gift all over Europe . |
| 38 | The worship of , or professed belief in , a god of some kind is to be found in varying degrees of sincerity all over the world . |
| 39 | I know that there are no easy answers , but if we do not at least attempt to act decisively , Zagreb , Dubrovnik , Vukovar and Osijek could be just the first names on a ghastly roll call resembling those unending , poignant first world war memorials that are such a feature of life all over the continent of Europe . |
| 40 | He preferred painting on a closely woven canvas , and sometimes when he had finished the work he placed a sheet of paper carefully over the fresh paint to merge the colours . |
| 41 | Miss Jarman 's words dropped like a stone in a pond , causing ripples of protest all over the room . |
| 42 | The day had got off to a bad start as it was ( late for work , lost the shop key , spilt a load of fish-food all over the floor and then cracked my head on a shelf while clearing it up ) . |
| 43 | I went out to water some plants and there was piles of soil all over the lawn — I was furious . |
| 44 | Matt black relieved by knife thin white stripes , with a broader stripe of white down over the nose . |
| 45 | Today they are an important source of food all over the world . |
| 46 | This was made explicit by Louis Agassiz , a Swiss who had in 1840 recognized marks of glaciation all over northern Europe and thus given us the idea of ice ages . |