Example sentences of "[adv] over [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The " good years " of textile out-workers , for example , began before the war but lasted only over the first half of it . |
| 2 | Add the chopped pepper and the cumin seeds to the saucepan and bubble gently over a medium heat for 8–10 minutes until the pepper is soft . |
| 3 | Add the chopped pepper and the cumin seeds to the saucepan and bubble gently over a medium heat for 8–10 minutes until the pepper is soft . |
| 4 | Fry gently over a low heat for about 10 minutes . |
| 5 | Jessamy slowly walked forward and rubbed her hand gently over the rough surface of the nearest stone . |
| 6 | She could not control the faint tremor of her mouth , and Rourke 's hand lifted , his thumb running gently over the pink fullness of her lips . |
| 7 | White patches all over the bloody coat with that soap powder . |
| 8 | Whatever influence Le Fanu 's works may have had on Stoker , the young Dublin boy must have known that in the prevalent Celtic legends the graves open all over the Irish countyside on All Souls ’ Night and the dead walk across the fields — and Irving 's performances and demeanour sealed the future of his fictional imagination . |
| 9 | He shrugged the shirt off , flung it to the floor , unfastened the waist of the immaculate beige trousers , disposed of the rest of his clothes with a cool composure which sent tiny shivers all over the heated surface of her body . |
| 10 | Both Jarlshof and Ness of Burgi have been covered in the thin film of oil which was deposited all over the southern part of Shetland . |
| 11 | When the shift of emphasis from moral to liturgical kingship came , it must be seen in the changing political context of ninth- and tenth-century Europe , and the emergence of new dynasties all over the once-unified empire of Charlemagne ; one of their principal qualifications to rule was their capacity to defeat external enemies . |
| 12 | After a welcome and introductory talk by Sylvia Townson , the theatre 's public relations officer , visitors were able to wander all over the Edwardian building with most grabbing the chance to stand behind the footlights for a thespians ' eye view of the ornate auditorium . |
| 13 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 14 | ‘ All over the little problem of changing the soprano . ’ |
| 15 | This pattern of life was being copied in Britain and all over the motorized world with greater or less fidelity . |
| 16 | As soon as they heard the angelus ring they gathered from all over the big house to the supper table . |
| 17 | She forbade him to accompany her beyond the door and walked alone over the golden sand past the flower-beds to the gate . |
| 18 | The new 58 beautifully manifests the Hood theory that displacement yachts with reduced wetted surface behave better over a wider range of conditions . |
| 19 | Thus there was a confusing number of elements on earth , above it and below it which contributed to the afterlife , representing ideas which had been brought together over a long period of time . |
| 20 | They were sitting together over a rough table in a room in a farmhouse outside Abergavenny . |
| 21 | But now , rather like recording afresh over the existing programme on an audio or visual cassette , Sylvia had superimposed a successful situation and had thereby made a significant change in the data recognized by her subconscious . |
| 22 | Descent is made southwards over a pathless moor to a depression containing a small tarn and a wall that rises to the next height , Swarth Fell . |
| 23 | As Landsats 1–3 moved southwards over the illuminated side of the Earth an instrument called the Multispectral Scanner ( MSS ) measured the reflectance of the land or water surface along scan lines extending 92.5 km on either side of the sub-satellite track ( Figure 5.2 ) . |
| 24 | Belinda found some clean sheets of a three-quarter-bed size that stretched comfortably over the extra width of the hospital bed . |
| 25 | Antoinette 's high heels tapped her away over the wooden floor of the landing , towards the front stairs . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Just over the other side of the Bréche , one of the great delvers into the Pyrenees , the speleologist Nor Bert Caste ret , discovered in 1926 an underground glacier , the highest ice-cavern known . |
| 28 | The intention was to continue his career in the USA , and he was shipped to California , where , trained by Tommy Woodcock , his first target was the Agua Caliente Handicap , originally billed as the world 's richest horse race and run just over the Mexican border in Tanforan , out of reach of California 's restrictive betting legislation . |
| 29 | , Large numbers of US-owned concerns are setting up manufacturing plants just over the Mexican frontier in order to escape increasingly tough federal anti-pollution regulations . |
| 30 | Large numbers of US-owned concerns are setting up manufacturing plants just over the Mexican frontier in order to escape increasingly tough federal anti-pollution regulations . |