Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Lewis 's and Blackler 's burnt out , and Lime Street — you ca n't hardly move for the hosepipes all over the ground . ’ |
2 | The British Army has provided troops for the UN all over the world . |
3 | And so well I did n't like what he was doing but at any rate it happened on Sunday morning er , somebody read the lesson and it was Saint , Saint John and there were chapters and of course it was skipping about the verses all over the place , you just got fed up with verses . |
4 | She strode through the newspapers all over the floor , some of them with dates from the thirties , even the war . |
5 | A light touch and not even a mouse could have scuttled through that ballroom without setting off the alarm all over the house — and the city . |
6 | He grabbed it and held it before his face and in doing so spilled most of the powder all over the front of his fancy tweed jacket . |
7 | Once the beer can had been invented , that is evolved , in one place , it was inevitable that it would eventually take the place of the bottle all over the world , though the process is still going on . |
8 | Lightly fold one half of the dough back over the rolling pin , then carefully transfer to the tin . |
9 | This month I 'd like to take the opportunity to look back at the current series of articles featuring the Pentatonic scale , taking stock of our command of the scale all over the fretboard . |
10 | Once you have made your guess place the template with the centre of the hole directly over the point you have guessed . |
11 | Without these provisions , the collapse of the structure perhaps over a much wider area must be anticipated . |
12 | I would now ask for very small helpings , eat perhaps a mouthful , and then smear the rest of the food all over the plate , hiding the residue underneath an upturned fork . |
13 | Unless we start pasting bits of the script all over the set . |
14 | The bag is fixed to the frame by simply folding the edge of the bag out over the top of the frame and securing it with a large rubber band . |
15 | erm , and a lot of them training , but unless you can actually erm , increase their confidence , and that is the attitude of the people all over the place . |
16 | The RAF and the Army vie with each other fairly closely with an average of 18.3 per cent and 17.0 per cent of the vote respectively over the 24-year period . |
17 | Like many of the gentry all over the country , he was convinced that the wound now bleeding Christendom might yet be healed , and the Church , the Body of Christ , made whole ; so when he gave sanctuary to young men on their way to train as priests in France , or secret agents from Spain or Ireland , he did so believing that he was acting in the best interests of his country , claiming that if anyone was a traitor it was the ardent puritans like Walsingham and Drake , who by their political manoeuvrings and piratical attacks on Spanish merchantmen were pushing the Queen remorselessly into a confrontation with King Philip of Spain . |
18 | She erm lived in a rented room in a settlement house in New York and she really provided the , the energy of the movement all over the country . |
19 | They can then be placed in a bowl or aquarium with the water just over the surface of the compost . |
20 | It hit the green and finished down in the rough with the flag just over a little rise ( he was down in Duncan 's Hollow ) . |
21 | We had the experience , sometimes agreeable , often traumatic , of meeting with the doctors constantly over a period , usually at the headquarters of BUPA in Essex Street , adjoining my office in Little Essex Street . |
22 | Are they going to be erm falling into the sea gradually over the coming years ? |
23 | Digging up the road all over the place . |
24 | And then you do other exercises like lying on your back , putting your feet your from the knees downwards over the edge of the pool and then trying to do sit ups . |
25 | A local builder , probably the same man who had just built the beautiful house of Newton Ferrers , created this simple masterpiece in the local sea-grey basaltic stone , mixed with silvery granite from the moor up over the hill to the north . |
26 | I think if you have mainly pain in there it 's much more likely to be a little bit of inflammation under the this tendon which goes from the muscle here over the top of the kneecap and attaches in there . |
27 | I do n't know who composed the ballads , which could be heard sung in the streets all over the place . |
28 | FURY erupted in a border town in the Republic yesterday over a sentence imposed on a hit-and-run driver from Ulster who left a young Gaelic footballer dying on a country road . |
29 | Shaun Udal is the 23-year-old Hampshire Offspinner who up to now in a brief career has stimulated discussion in the Press-boxes mostly over the favoured pronunciation of his name . |
30 | 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 . |