Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [verb] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | One hostile dark eyebrow lifted briefly and a pair of diamond-hard eyes swept quickly over her , seeming to assess in the flicker of an eyelid the stylish dark red outfit she was wearing . |
| 2 | The fortunes of individual towns varied considerably over the sixteenth and seventeenth century but many still bear considerable marks of their former prosperity . |
| 3 | Now the pattern of current variation repeats exactly over every three periods of the source ( picture ( g ) ) . |
| 4 | He looked down at the scatter of handwritten pages spread all over the table , and tensed his body as though anticipating a blow . |
| 5 | Although the total press coverage of pop music increased dramatically over the last ten years , the quality has n't improved and the power of music papers to make and break an artist has greatly dissipated . |
| 6 | In the distance the pinnacle of the Monument , its golden figure of Winged Victory hovering impatiently over the autumn mists , pointed the way . |
| 7 | Guided by the Chief Officer , the county became one of the first to introduce comprehensive schools of a new style , as well as fresh methods of teaching in its primary schools , and an immense explosion of organized music teaching all over the county . |
| 8 | There is much talk of cutting back management costs ; the redesign team hopes to simplify the station 's ghastly management structure , which has different contractors working with different NASA centres all over the place . |
| 9 | A very big ship , but it was broken in two , with white water breaking all over it . |
| 10 | Between these , gold-dark , dark-gold and violent pink , lay Lady Rose Martindale , solid but not fat or for in less , indeed very woman-shaped , in pink-and-brown striped silk bathing suit , with gold hair spattered softly over the brown flesh of her shoulders and whitish sand speckled on the gleam of her thighs where she had rolled from side to side . |
| 11 | I wonder if it will catch on here , and fantasise about enormous Khat raves all over the country : ‘ Mastication — featuring DJ Chewing Tunes and MC Yorker , 100K lasers , 60K sound system , gyroscopes , brain machines , Yemeni massage and solid silver spittoons . ’ |
| 12 | Water quality in Scottish rivers improved significantly over the period 1985-90 , according to the latest Water Quality Survey . |
| 13 | A few drill pieces swathed in blubbery grease protrude precariously over the side . |
| 14 | RENEGADE pit bull terriers are being used in illegal dog fights all over Britain for £1,000 prizes . |
| 15 | Such investigators as Rowntree , A. L. Bowley and L. Chiozza Money demonstrated that the disparity between rich and poor and the proportion of the population living in severe poverty changed little over the period . |
| 16 | Arctic waters show no increased radiation levels from nuclear waste dumped there over the years by Soviet authorities . |
| 17 | Amphibians have moist skins and keep them so with slime produced from small glands distributed all over the body . |