Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen was still in bed but sitting up and there were books on Vangmoor all over the quilt . |
| 2 | Lord Gnome had returned to Branson intermittently over the years , christening him ‘ a reptilian little shit ’ in stories which Branson always maintained were ‘ inaccuracies ’ . |
| 3 | THE Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher , is preparing for a head-on clash with President Bush at Camp David tomorrow over American proposals for radical cuts in the US defence budget . |
| 4 | The action smacked too much of the grandiose , if futile , gesture of the French nobility at Crécy just over a century earlier . |
| 5 | To me there are prototypes of Alf all over the country : far too many of them in fact . |
| 6 | Across the little Livre valley the vines grown on the east and south-east-facing slopes of Mont Écouvé , at a height of between 150 and 170 metres , are an extension to those of Bouzy just over the hill . |
| 7 | LEADING Tory John Gummer quit the Church of England yesterday over its move to bring in women priests . |
| 8 | Deputy Foreign Minister Tristan Garel Jones protested to Iraqi envoy Zuhair Ibrahim yesterday over the sentence . |
| 9 | The British Army has provided troops for the UN all over the world . |
| 10 | Does my hon. Friend agree that many leaders of local industry are giving their time and experience to ensure the great success of TECs all over the United Kingdom and that it is imperative that we , the Government , ensure that they are properly funded ? |
| 11 | Goldman 's push had sent Helen backwards over a low wall , hips and legs one side , torso on the other . |
| 12 | TWO ESSEX MPs clashed in the Commons yesterday over the likely impact on the south of the county of the proposed high speed Channel Tunnel rail link . |
| 13 | No doubt he will be giving the point more thought after being assailed in the Commons yesterday over the behaviour of his Northern Ireland minister , Michael Mates . |
| 14 | So watch it , ’ called Jordan companionably over his shoulder . |
| 15 | Pig iron you know er pig iron was what they had I 've seen them pouring furnaces pouring it onto the pig beds , and you know when I was a kid when we lived in Caldmore from about half past nine at night all across West Bromwich , Wednesbury all over that area , you 'd see the sky light up and it was due to the pouring of er pouring the pig iron . |
| 16 | A second opinion was sought and , short-sightedly , my parents agreed to put me in those gorgeous National Health jobs which are now sported by your average Yuppie but which made you look second only in berkishness to the kid in the owl specs with Elastoplast all over one lens . |
| 17 | Although the clan is diffuse now , a cohesion lingers : Macdonalds all over the world contribute to the funding of the Clan Donald Centre , a well-run and surprisingly unembarrassing tourist , residential and archival institute for the celebration of the name . |
| 18 | Inside , the girls showed Rose all over the house . |
| 19 | She 's still got Weetabix all over her top . |
| 20 | Christ , I was about to do the Technicolor Yawn all over this girl 's jacket , through the tears and rusting her zips and filling her pockets , and probably send Jamie flying across the room into the beer-crates under the speaker stacks with the first awful heave , and here were these two trading absurd biker fantasies . |
| 21 | CIE , the US-based Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility , and the International Organization of Consumer Unions , have all collaborated on many projects , and there are literally hundreds , perhaps thousands of transnational networks now monitoring the TNCs all over the world . |
| 22 | Stop plastering Vic all over your music paper and make way for some real talent . |
| 23 | Although Valerie Eliot did not like long sea voyages since she suffered from seasickness , and Eliot complained to friends like Marion Dorn about the expense involved , they travelled to the West Indies regularly over the next five years . |
| 24 | Immendorf all over town |
| 25 | They 'll be pitching out their Agas all over the country . |
| 26 | Do you ever stop writing Billy all over your books ? |
| 27 | He , he goes , do you ever stop writing Billy all over your book ? |
| 28 | After rescuing McAllister just over a fortnight ago , he had told himself firmly , This must stop ! and himself had refused to listen . |
| 29 | There 's a lot of larger shops , we 've got Boots just over the road and er a lot er of good businesses round about . |
| 30 | In some cases such an escape was executed only with pain , as in the case of Ann Yearsley who broke publicly with Hannah More over the right to administer a trust fund for her children . |