Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] [adv] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Once you have made your guess place the template with the centre of the hole directly over the point you have guessed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Unless we start pasting bits of the script all over the set . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | E.g. it is reasonable to expect all pipes and tanks in an attic to be lagged ; when a property is to be unoccupied for a period particularly over the winter months , all water tanks , pipes , etc should be drained and adequate heating provided . |
| 11 | They can then be placed in a bowl or aquarium with the water just over the surface of the compost . |
| 12 | Are they going to be erm falling into the sea gradually over the coming years ? |
| 13 | Digging up the road all over the place . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | During the last week of the month Olivia and I had gone to stay outside Delhi , in a fort just over the Rajasthani border . |
| 16 | I could see now , in the better light , that a long mirror was on the wall directly over the bed . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She stuck a piece of adhesive tape round it to stop the needle from coming out and hung the bottle on to a hook just over the dog . |
| 19 | ‘ They hope he will be on a plane home over the weekend . ’ |
| 20 | Resulting from our systematical radio monitoring work around the clock all over the world . |
| 21 | 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 . |