Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] [verb] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Waaagh roamed freely over the Worlds Edge Mountains it was joined by multitudes of Goblins including the Night Goblin tribes of Red Eye Mountain and many Forest Goblin tribes from the Great Forest . |
| 2 | The example illustrated in Fig. 561 is a purely timber log structure of the type built all over eastern Europe till long after the Middle Ages . |
| 3 | The bang of the door resounded all over the house . |
| 4 | At last , while the shadow of the ramparts reached quickly over the grass , they gathered up the debris of their afternoon and skipped or ran or walked or grumbled up the slopes to home . |
| 5 | Her first thought , she realised , was that she hated the idea of the police trampling all over this heaven on earth . |
| 6 | Hari was seated in the small shed at the side of the house bent industriously over the wooden last . |
| 7 | But perhaps the most impressive sight of all — if only because most brains , when faced with the sheer galactic enormity of A'Tuin , refuse to believe it — is the endless Rimfall , where the seas of the disc boil ceaselessly over the Edge into space . |
| 8 | He believed that the surface of the earth changed gradually over long periods of time , and saw that such changes would have an effect not only upon the physical environment to which living things were exposed , but upon the possibility of migration to new locations . |
| 9 | Over a third of the Group 's 104,000 UK employees hold shares through the Staff Profit Sharing Scheme and have seen the value of the shares grow significantly over the last five years as a result of the company 's continued success . |
| 10 | When grown in the absence of FCS , many of the cells died asynchronously over several days , with morphological features that are characteristic of apoptosis : when viewed by time-lapse video recording , the cells showed active surface blebbing and then shrank and often fragmented ( not shown ) , and when stained with propidium iodide or viewed in an electron microscope , the nuclei of the dead cells were condensed and often fragmented ( Fig. 2c , f ) . |
| 11 | I remember putting the door mat over my head , as the engine mechanism of the bomb stopped right over our house . |
| 12 | Looking down the tower , she could see , twenty feet below her , the church roof and the back of the necks of the gargoyles roaring noiselessly over the marsh . |
| 13 | The return to normality after the Angelus hush made him feel that the all-seeing spirit which had for a while hovered doubtfully over his actions had now moved on . |
| 14 | THE earth moved for a naked couple making love in a tunnel — as a TRAIN thundered right over them . |
| 15 | If they have been very , very bad and are not well connected inside the Church , the man with the wart gobs all over them , people chuck potato peelings at them and then they are turned out into Strathclyde Road in their underpants . |
| 16 | And she felt , though comfortable in bed , as if she were standing with the rain sluicing all over her , streaming soothing over her breasts and down her thighs , warm and comforting and she hoped that he was not in difficulties on the road and that he was thinking about the rain . |
| 17 | He left the room with the cloth cast loosely over his shoulder like the end of a toga . |
| 18 | The most perfect example of the Marine Style is the pot from Gournia with an octopus sprawling all over its surface . |
| 19 | I watched the distant cloud from the explosion drift away over the firth , dispersing , then I turned and ran as fast as I could for the house . |
| 20 | Light from the ceiling moved uncertainly over the carved wood Quiss was still staring at . |
| 21 | Throughout the year therefore emissaries from the congregation drove all over the place , from Kirkcaldy to Bonnyrigg , Carricknowe and Musselburgh , and on their return had |
| 22 | Leonard stayed like Breavman at the International Student 's House , from whose lofty heights he could see across New York ‘ relieved that it was n't his city , ’ in the day wandering all over New York ‘ to stare and taste at will . ’ |
| 23 | The encroachment in the District occurred notably over the resident tutor-organiser scheme in Bedfordshire in 1930 and further overlapping and competitive situations arose following the issue of the revised Adult Education Regulations in 1932 . |
| 24 | In these conditions he was in no position to ride rough-shod over the interests of either the Church or the nobility , and in the mid sixteenth century there were momentary signs that the wealthier commoners were gaining a modicum of political leverage . |
| 25 | Elise , tall , red-haired and elegant , occupied pole position on the centre-page shot , wearing one of Leonora 's sweaters , a silver fox-head brooch pinned to the scarf thrown carelessly over one shoulder , the interior of the shop in the background . |
| 26 | The piano introduction to the song washed gently over the audience and carried them in its undertow towards glorious possibilities . |
| 27 | Seeing the promotion of the library as only part of the general thrust of his work in " promoting the curriculum " , his accounts to the evaluators roamed broadly over the wide remit of a senior member of staff . |
| 28 | Tony stared at the criss-cross cuts all over Tippy 's thighs . |
| 29 | Then , slowly , he looked round the kitchen and the sitting room at the flowers painted all over the pale green walls , like a meadow in summer , at the dark green ivy crawling up the stairs and the bears and tigers and dragons decorating every piece of furniture . |
| 30 | The lingering tingling sensations caused by the whip glowed all over her body . |