Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adv] [verb] over the " in BNC.

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1 The wall opposite the sink and the window was covered with an oak dresser , very old and probably valuable , if it had been possible to remove it from the wall without its collapse , and the original row of bells still hung over the door each with its Gothic script ; drawing room , dining room , study , nursery .
2 Yarrell is publishing the British birds quarto size — and about one thousand other niny tiny Works are in progress to assist in the mass of confusion already scattered over the World . ’
3 ‘ The risk of drinkers inadvertently going over the limit is tragically high , ’ the report says .
4 Dispute with China soon arose over the Ryúkyú Islands , which lie southwest of Kyushu , and include Okinawa .
5 Neither was able to brake and in seconds both vanished over the top of an ice cliff , falling on to the seracs below .
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