Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [adv] over the " 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | Once you have made your guess place the template with the centre of the hole directly over the point you have guessed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Unless we start pasting bits of the script all over the set . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They can then be placed in a bowl or aquarium with the water just over the surface of the compost . |
| 17 | Are they going to be erm falling into the sea gradually over the coming years ? |
| 18 | Digging up the road all over the place . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I do n't know who composed the ballads , which could be heard sung in the streets all over the place . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Kuwait government and the people of Kuwait provided assistance to the Palestinians all over the world , including the Palestinians living in occupied land . |
| 26 | I could see now , in the better light , that a long mirror was on the wall directly over the bed . |
| 27 | We lay side by side on the floor all over the house — there must have been a dozen or more of us , including nice old Ma Mi who was delighted to see us . |
| 28 | Resulting from our systematical radio monitoring work around the clock all over the world . |
| 29 | Given that precedent , the institution by Thomas Attwood , a banker , of the Birmingham Political Union of the Lower and Middle Classes , to be followed at once by the creation all over the country of other political unions , must have seemed ominous . |