Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not yet dry but she had no others apart from her best ones , so she pulled them on over the warm , dry woollen stockings into which she had changed upon coming in from the buildings . |
| 2 | I think both he and Weatherall are outstanding prospects , but need an ‘ old head ’ to bring them on over the next couple of years ( pity about O'Leary ) . |
| 3 | She looked at me crossly over the breakfast table . |
| 4 | At the meeting , it was decided that County , the underwriters Dillon Read and Phillips & Drew would take some of the remaining shares and then sell them slowly over the next few weeks , a move which had been discussed with County 's lawyers beforehand . |
| 5 | I 've gathered them slowly over the years , because they 're cruelly expensive . |
| 6 | As I work in the Middle East , I usually only have a short space of time while I 'm home to sort out my musical needs and Colin from my local store , Heads Hands and Feet , has helped me tremendously over the years . |
| 7 | It is urging me on over the years bidding me neglect those that were without Cathenne , where as I set out to tell the story of my life , the dull with the bright , the gray with the green , all the Sundays Mondays and Tuesdays of it at least sufficiently to suggest them . |
| 8 | Since she had been secretary to a bishop ( she learnt to type by trial and error ) , and also chauffeur to a bishop ( she learnt to drive by trial and error ) , she knew a lot of the clergy and their wives and had visited them all over the diocese , often in the black-out , and sat with the wives while the husbands talked to Bishop Owen , so she was good at remembering about them and their children and found the wives of the clergy to be fun . |
| 9 | Marie says it 's to keep the noise in , but I do n't reckon it works too well , cos you can hear them all over the house when they practise . |
| 10 | Read it in our way and we shall merely be , as Lewis says in the preface to The Discarded Image , like ‘ travellers who carry their resolute Englishry with them all over the Continent , mix only with other English tourists , enjoy all they see for its ‘ quaintness ’ and have no wish to realise what those ways of life , those churches , those vineyards mean to the natives ’ . |
| 11 | At 19 these young people — and hundreds like them all over the country — are likely to be going home and staying there . |
| 12 | But 24 hours earlier , a flock of shrieking paparazzi had tailed them all over London ; because 40-year-old Mrs Koons , nee Ilona Staller , is the former Italian parliamentarian and porn star Cicciolina ( variously translated as ‘ the dumpling ’ , ‘ the plump one ’ and ‘ little pinchable one ’ ) , while her husband is the most talked-about artist since Andy Warhol . |
| 13 | I bang on them , drag them all over the place , throw them around ! ’ |
| 14 | The feeling of being in the centre of things , of constant activity , of being in charge not only of a vehicle but its VIP occupant — or occupants — and the different venues to and from which she transported them all over southern England , appealed enormously to her restless nature and craving for excitement . |
| 15 | So you will find them all over the world . |
| 16 | As to placing cable patterns , there is no need to have them all over the garment , unless it is a classic sports sweater . |
| 17 | To the uninitiated it might seem that the shunters are engaged in a game of hide-and-seek with the trucks ; they appear to scatter them all over the yard , as if their object were to separate many of them as completely as possible . |
| 18 | And that 's a , and that 's them all over the country , not only Edinburgh , all over the country , in north south east and west and you name it . |
| 19 | Now Mr. Lennis is turning them all into tramps , sending them all over the place wherever he can pick up a cargo . |
| 20 | Wearily , she began to look for them all over the theatre . |
| 21 | I dare say that you too , Mr. Speaker , were inspired by all you saw , and of course you have visited them all over the years and have great experience of this subject . |
| 22 | He sent them all over the Islamic world to kill his enemies . ’ |
| 23 | By the time the tins had fallen that far , the wind and slipstream would have blown them all over the sky . |
| 24 | You 'll find them all over the country . |
| 25 | They work them all over Christmas ? |
| 26 | Well , we already do that at the moment , trying to assess a myriad of individual benefits with people filling up forms and sending them all over the country . |
| 27 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 30 | And there were you could see them all over British Railways . |