Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adv] over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I presume this sort of thing goes on all over the country ? ’ |
| 2 | The position of the outlets on the fascia board can be determined by a plumbline hanging down centrally over the gully or drain inlet . |
| 3 | Part of the rope still swung there , hanging down directly over the water . |
| 4 | For some time all three moved on quietly over the grass , while the shadows grew stronger and the wood-pigeons clattered among the distant trees . |
| 5 | Begin by exercising moderately for 5–10 minutes per day , and build up gradually over a period of a month . |
| 6 | The sun had come out fully over the abbey mills and the narrow bridge of Meole brook , and in the foregate there was bustle enough . |
| 7 | They have discovered that problems that they thought had to be brought in person to a bureau , can in fact be carried out successfully over the telephone . |
| 8 | Not like now with all these casualties walking around all over the place , getting into fights . ’ |
| 9 | While he , Owen , was tearing around all over the place like a bloody lunatic ! |
| 10 | Mildred realized that her head had reappeared , which must have looked rather alarming , bobbing about all over the place with no body attached . |
| 11 | And , yes , there are a couple of lines around the eyes , and a grey hair or twenty ( at least they 're all together in a neat bunch , not lurking about all over the place ) and the neck does n't look too good in some , particularly unflattering , lights , but then I do n't suppose yours would , either . |
| 12 | Flora put her hands over her ears and began to jump about all over the kitchen . |
| 13 | Lights came on all over the Ship . |
| 14 | Feet came along smartly over the sand and dirt of the path , were cushioned briefly by the grass of the bank into inaudibility , then snapped over twigs and beech-husks . |
| 15 | You see it written down all over the place incorrectly . |
| 16 | Very few films are about rape , although it crops up all over the place — from the narrative device launching an endless cycle of Death Wish movies , to general ’ scene-setting ’ in war movies and crime thrillers , or used with sublime insensitivity to illuminate ( male ) character : Robert De Niro raping his childhood sweetheart in Once Upon A Time In America , Bob Hoskins forcing himself on the maid in The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne . |
| 17 | They say that the concentrated magnetic fields in sunspots spread out all over the sun somewhat after the maximum of solar activity . |
| 18 | The sense of violence and anger , together with passionate interest , spilled out all over the place . |
| 19 | Big ideas : Sometimes the ‘ big ideas ’ of management theory become so fissile that they break out all over the place apparently independently . |
| 20 | As long as the controls are there to make sure they 're not wandering around all over the place which one hears about Group 4 and their reputation for letting people go which has become a bit of a joke . |
| 21 | ‘ We can eat later , ’ Leila called , trying to keep order over the group who were wandering about all over the place . |
| 22 | Seems to be wandering about all over the place ! |
| 23 | There was so much going on all over the mission , more often than not organized by the people themselves . |
| 24 | Then she noticed the lights going on all over the school but thought no more about it . |
| 25 | Research on methods for controlling pests without chemicals is going on all over the world and the latest greenfly predator to come under scientific scrutiny is the lacewing . |
| 26 | There 's loads of new garages going in all over the place . |
| 27 | Some of them have got arms going off all over the place . |
| 28 | No we 're not all rushing off all over the place although the men and s some of the women you know we have gone off and they still I mean the men were in South Wales last week . |
| 29 | Ride to Langholm in Eskdale this first night , then lie up there over the morrow . |
| 30 | Slack planning laws mean hotels are growing up all over the place , said Nick — who quickly threw out his own idea that the West has all the answers to the problems . |