Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun] from [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The town was also successful in attaining Safer City status and beat off competition from all over the United Kingdom to become Britain 's second Environment City , he said . |
| 2 | An estimated 1,000,000 people arrived in Shenzhen from all over China on Aug. 9-11 seeking to purchase the application forms for a forthcoming share offer on the Shenzhen stock exchange . |
| 3 | Groups of unemployed men marched in procession from all over the country to protest in the capital , and in the course of these hunger marches , stayed overnight in institutions such as that of the Bedford Union . |
| 4 | Thackeray called the exhibits on show-mostly machines " England 's arms of conquest the trophies of her bloodless war " , and visitors flocked to London from all over the world to marvel at them . |
| 5 | Whilst there is no denying that from its early days the Castro government provided safe haven and some aid to the revolutionary groups which flocked to Havana from all over Latin America and the Caribbean — in 1959 Cuba was the launching base for unsuccessful attacks on Haiti , Panama and the Dominican Republic — these activities must be set in context . |
| 6 | Workers flocked to Middlesborough from all over the place ; according to the 1871 census nearly half the town 's population were born outside Yorkshire . |