Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | Frogs love it , and in springtime birds swarm all over it , making off with beaksful of what must be nature 's most luxurious nest lining material ! |
| 3 | When the hunters at the head of the column discover prey , they swarm all over it , cutting it apart . |
| 4 | If they discover a grasshopper or a beetle , they swarm all over it , sinking their jaws between the joints of its external skeleton and dismembering it with surgical precision . |
| 5 | They 'll pin us down and then swarm all over us . ’ |
| 6 | You could suck , kiss , lick , touch , fondle , bite , nibble and squeeze all over his body — his nipples , arse , calves , toes , neck , ears , thighs , nose , crotch , balls , armpits , fingers … |
| 7 | Mix the herbs into the softened butter and rub all over the lamb . |
| 8 | Treasures front all over the world . |
| 9 | Tapes crash all over my desk . |
| 10 | And the animal prints , so popular on Paris catwalks this year , purr all over bedroom accessories at B&B . |
| 11 | That 'll be lovely , I say politely over the telephone , do come round , it 'll be nice to see you . |
| 12 | It was built by Francis Smallman , whose initials and those of his wife Ellen appear all over the plasterwork ceilings . |
| 13 | These kindly present-buying people will be set upon immediately by the old cake-shop lady , who will convince them that what all ‘ the young people ’ are going for are these lovely olive green PVC capes that fit nicely over a rucksack . |
| 14 | He nearly weeed all over me . |
| 15 | Mushrooms containing the drug psilocyn grow all over Britain , notably on Hampstead Heath . |
| 16 | They pee all over your garden though the Council provides toilets for them . ’ |
| 17 | The mushroom compost might look a bit straw-like at first , but the plants soon grow together over it . |
| 18 | She saw his eyes skim reflectively over her body , felt herself blush under his potent male gaze . |
| 19 | Such sites do not always show up at all well , because crops grow differently over old infilled ditches . |
| 20 | From the inner-city I steer shakily over the Liffey and through the cobbled streets and mixed primary colours of old Dublin , through a wide stretch of bleak , bland suburbs and onto a motorway . |
| 21 | Insert the gaskets in the aluminium glazing bar cap ; place centrally over the rafter gasket and screw down no more than 400mm apart , using matching coloured acetal headed stainless steel screws . |
| 22 | I cry now over accounts of childhood like this , weeping furtively over the reports of nineteenth century commissions of inquiry into child labour , abandoning myself to the luxuriance of grief in libraries , tears staining the pages where Mayhew 's little watercress girl tells her story . |
| 23 | There is a sad inevitability about the battles which wage continuously over the future of the wilder uplands of Scotland . |
| 24 | Every moment of Rainbow 's existence during my time at the Fair has been tracked , recorded , docketed and programmed for easy-edit , so I am able to wipe , play-back , freeze-frame or skim fast over the boring bits . |
| 25 | Interviewers and cameramen with slavering lips and wolfish grins ( all Americans are dogs ) press forward over a film set piled high with gaunt striped-pyjama 'd corpses . |
| 26 | The beetles protect theirs by turning the front pair into stiff thick covers which fit neatly over the top of the abdomen . |
| 27 | Over a third of the Group 's 104,000 UK employees hold shares through the Staff Profit Sharing Scheme and have seen the value of the shares grow significantly over the last five years as a result of the company 's continued success . |
| 28 | Undoubtedly the strangest of Sulawesi 's amazing fauna , the babirusa , a species of pig with four tusks , two of which curve backwards over the head . |
| 29 | The longer upper tusks grow upwards through the skin and curve backwards over the eyes . |
| 30 | The deeply moated site of the former manor house marks the edge of the old settlement ; sheep now graze peacefully over the remains of the village and over the ridge and furrow patterns of what were once the communal arable fields . |