Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The complexities proved to be even greater than expected , particularly since the rate of claim for compensation increased considerably over the years up to the setting up of the committee . |
| 2 | And there was plenty of crap strewn all over the pavement , so he had to be more careful . |
| 3 | Last but by no means least , the Human Rights Sub-Committee under the chairmanship of has done an enormous amount of work on behalf of lawyers in countries where the rule of law remains somewhere over the rainbow . |
| 4 | I 've g I 've got about a half a dozen sheets of paper scattered all over the place , and I 've decided to do it in this cos then I can just go to here . |
| 5 | As a child I made these , covering the kitchen in ingredients and allowing balls of mixture to roll all over the place , only to be found six months later behind the toaster . |
| 6 | we 've done very well for escaping it , the only trouble is we have n't got the rain and now , this , this coming summer I dread to think what 's gon na happen , look how dry those fields are , just look at it if we get a wind up , if we , a wind starts to blow it 'll move a lot of this , it will just lift it up into the air , we 'll get clouds of soil blowing all over the place . |
| 7 | With the other he dipped what looked like a hearthbrush into the bucket then flung its load of holy-water drops all over the pile of stones . |
| 8 | Above , in what appeared a dome of infinite proportion , a timeless expanse of grey hung menacingly over the hamlet of Elling . |
| 9 | He left the bathroom in a terrible mess , with water slopped all over the floor and the towel sopping . |
| 10 | In view of the NUM 's capitulation this outlook assumes that coal will stay the main power station fuel with demand increasing marginally over the 1983 level by the year 2000 , with production probably falling slightly as a result of closures of high-cost pits and delays in bringing in new low-cost capacity . |
| 11 | All I could think of were the smelly corridors , the dirty waiting room with cigarette butts all over the floor , the stares of the officers , the bunches of keys at their waists . |
| 12 | I claimed there that holists and individualists are not in fact disagreeing principally over the issue of reduction as has generally been supposed . |
| 13 | Jackie Gardner takes exhibits to horticultural shows all over the country and the nursery has just picked up a Gold Medal at Chelsea . |
| 14 | Steel goes by rail to engineering works all over the country . |