Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marian knelt and drew her fingers slowly over its glossy coat . |
| 2 | She ran her fingers slowly over the stubbly , woven texture of a wall-hanging , part woven , part collage . |
| 3 | Nuclear giants right over reprocessing contract |
| 4 | At Ellon , where the modern road forks right over the bridge on the A92 , and a pretty walk runs along by the river Ythan , the landlady of an inn where they breakfasted wished she had remembered to show to this great doctor ( of whom they had heard ) a child of hers with a chronic lump in his throat . |
| 5 | ‘ I have promised to take big fights all over the country and they come no bigger than a bout with a world title at stake , ’ Hearn said . |
| 6 | There were dead birds all over the streets . |
| 7 | ‘ We 'd go to all these really swinging parties with all these naked birds all over the place , all covered in drugs , and then this geezer in an acrylic suit would walk in. ‘ 'E would n't talk to anyone . |
| 8 | ‘ We 'd go to all these really swinging parties with all these naked birds all over the place , all covered in drugs , and then this geezer in an acrylic suit would walk in. ‘ 'E would n't talk to anyone . |
| 9 | These workers have traditionally been the toughest and most radical , and employers all over America are aware that if Pittston can break the ‘ mother union ’ , then the attempts to gain the ground lost in the Reagan years will be stillborn . |
| 10 | Perhaps Trine was telling the truth and Love Hearts were being taken at raves all over the country . |
| 11 | He would be able to visit libraries , museums and institutions all over Britain and make contact with other numerologists . |
| 12 | He joined a syndicate which invested in the insurance market … underwriting policies all over the world , from family cars to ships ' cargoes . |
| 13 | So she did — her brother-in-law , a schoolteacher with a young growing family , a huge mortgage and debts all over the place . |
| 14 | It bone breaths all over me . |
| 15 | and he could n't a job and then , I me I mean , he tried for apprenticeships all over the place and other jobs and he just could n't get one ! |
| 16 | Apart from a broken rib , massive bruises all over my body , and slight concussion , I was in one piece . |
| 17 | you had to belt the players so hard that you ended up with small bruises all over your hand from where their heads indented . |
| 18 | MONEY raised through the Church of Ireland 's Bishops ' Appeal will go towards relief projects all over the world . |
| 19 | Since railways were built anywhere , they could not necessarily rely on a local labour-force , but developed a corps of nomadic labourers ( known in Britain as the ‘ navvies ’ ) , such as still characterises the great construction projects all over the world . |
| 20 | Almost she rose through the strata of realities to wakefulness , but then her lover glided his fingers gently over the curve of her jaw to mine pleasure from her throat . |
| 21 | She ran her fingers gently over the manila surface and felt the outline of something small and cold inside . |
| 22 | As he spoke , he trailed his fingers gently over her body until he reached her thighs . |
| 23 | They will be affected for the rest of their lives by the kind of diet which is condemned by nutritionists all over the world as likely to lead to a whole variety of illnesses in later life . |
| 24 | The Special Advisory Board for the Army Medical Service had laid down as a basis for treatment ‘ a more or less continuous course of mercury by mouth for 1½ to 2 years ’ combined with mercurial ointment rubbed into the skin for 20 to 30 minutes daily over a six-week period . |
| 25 | Woke me up , shouting your secrets all over the mill . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ During the spring Cry hopes to gather many thousands of signatures all over real Yorkshire in order to convince the Local Government Commission that Yorkshire people wish to see their county made whole again , ’ he said . |
| 27 | He said his name was Christmas and he had worked his magic act in theatres and royal palaces all over the world . |
| 28 | It was quite funny really , garages all over Middleton overflowing with paper , ’ says Dave Fielding . |
| 29 | General situation : Cloudy in Scotland and Northern Ireland with rain , heavy at times especially over the hills . |
| 30 | An intensive bout of lobbying by both sides followed during the next month , both in New York and in capital cities all over the world . |