Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wear on leather soled shoes was saved by sticking on over soles made from pieces of old tyre inner tubes . |
| 2 | Broadcasters do try to offer advice , but it often goes right over the heads of enquirers . |
| 3 | I 'm afraid they do , but because they perceive television as entertainment , it goes right over their heads . |
| 4 | What goes right over high over the Thames . |
| 5 | There were no accidents unless you count ‘ Survival ’ wildlife cameraman Dieter Plage being run down by an enraged tusker who passed right over him as he lay on the ground . |
| 6 | Male peasants in the fields wear their distinctive broad-brimmed straw hats , with their coats hanging loosely over their shoulders . |
| 7 | Arty was still asleep , one arm hanging loosely over the side . |
| 8 | The crisis arose eventually over another matter , when Ken exerted successful moral pressure on one of William 's Dutch courtiers to marry the Princess 's maid of honour whom he had seduced . |
| 9 | Colin Falck 's Cat Gone from Memorabilia ( Taxus , £5.95 ) , by contrast , goes courageously over the top in its eloquent last verse demonstration of how death and depression transfer emotion and unhinge reason : Come back my love . |
| 10 | Quiz of couple goes on over murder of OAP |
| 11 | ‘ We will obviously monitor everything that goes on over the next 12 months ’ , he says ‘ We can only hope that when we do our assessments of need we can support that need with the finances we 've been given . |
| 12 | Even with all the other general fund-raising that goes on over the year , it is pleasing that you still run or participate in events that are specifically for the Society ; we have again benefited from Raffles , Cake Sales , Bring and Buys , Good as New , Cheese-and-Wines , Coffee Mornings — AND — Sponsored Slims ! |
| 13 | Sandblasting of the Great Slab area at Stanage to remove graffiti painted on over the August bank holiday has had the beneficial side effect of totally cleaning the afflicted area of chalk and rubber marks , and has also increased the friction . |
| 14 | Their underside is covered with cilia which by beating enable them to glide slowly over surfaces . |
| 15 | No one would travel in that manner who could help it — who had time to go leisurely over hills and between hedges , instead of through tunnels and between banks ; at least those who would , have no sense of beauty so acute that we need to consult it at the station . |
| 16 | In 1928 the Medical Officer reported that maternity and child welfare had developed remarkably over the last two years . |
| 17 | ‘ Just sit down over there . |
| 18 | ‘ Come and sit down over here . ’ |
| 19 | Take off your boots this moment , before I lose my temper , and sit down over there . |
| 20 | ‘ Come and sit down over here . ’ |
| 21 | Sit down over there with Ricky and I 'll bring them to you . |
| 22 | We turned the light on The room was full of funny little animals whizzing all over the floor . |
| 23 | You just shot up , whizzing all over the place , erratic but really zooming , and that partly compensated for any lack of technique . |
| 24 | It 's immensely enjoyable to feel those tingling currents of energy beginning to flow all over you . |
| 25 | The identifying symbols had been placed all over her dress , and included one in an area which seemed anatomically surprising . |
| 26 | Black rain clouds were scudding in over the Thames . |
| 27 | We drank the tea squatting in the shade , gazing down over the desert and the river valley . |
| 28 | Well sir , they 're , we support dipping because it 's already been stated to note that we make most of the money for Shropshire from farming , and sheep is one of the big things which we sell all over the country , but unless we can guarantee our sheep are clear of er , disease people are n't going to come here and buy meat and stuff are they ? |
| 29 | ‘ First I want you to sit down over here and write down the names of all those who shared the stolen fruit with you . ’ |
| 30 | In the morning clouds boiled ominously over the distant Baltoro peaks as we cramponed to the start of the east ridge . |