Example sentences of "spread [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he spoke a dark pool of blood began to gather under the luxuriant mane of Harriet 's auburn hair which had escaped from the loosened snood and spread slowly over the ground . |
| 2 | He looked down at the scatter of handwritten pages spread all over the table , and tensed his body as though anticipating a blow . |
| 3 | By the late eleventh century the hand of Cluny was felt in houses spread all over the north of Spain and down into Italy , even to La Cava near Naples and over into Sicily , and also across the south and west of Germany in the movement which had its centre in Hirsau . |
| 4 | ‘ In the space of two years , we moved from a domestic merchant bank with 500 people , all of whom knew each other very well , to an organisation with nearly 3,000 people spread all over the world , ’ says Mr Reed . |
| 5 | Geographically , operators can be found spread all over the globe , but the so-called Third World , especially the Caribbean and Alaska are the prime areas of the activity . |
| 6 | Migration followed the establishment of a world economic system : Indians spread all over the British Empire ; Chinese went to Singapore and Indonesia . |
| 7 | He provided the link between the School and its past pupils , for he was the Membership Secretary of the Old Stopfordians ' Association , no easy task , with members spread all over the world . |
| 8 | All about Keswick he had noticed gangs of men building the giant reaches of drystone walls enclosing even the highest fell-land , the better to take advantage of grain prices in the war ; gangs of men working the woods , as charcoal-burners , swill-makers , coppice-workers , plain woodmen ; and , as here , men in the high mines — men spread all over the landscape , bondmen of industry , all living out near their workplace , turf huts and teepees scattered abroad , excluded from society throughout the week of their work and let into its comforts and pleasure only for a brief Saturday night escape . |
| 9 | The visible stars appear spread all over the night sky , but are particularly concentrated in one band , which we call the Milky Way . |
| 10 | A dolphin school will often divide up into subgroups while searching for food , which separate and spread out over a wide area of sea , still diving synchronously — evidence that they are probably in some form of acoustic contact . |
| 11 | Spread out over a lot more acreage and split into two widely separated pavilions , attendance looked sparse and the aisles empty despite show management 's claims of a 10% increase in traffic . |
| 12 | With the large number of children spread out over the country , it was inevitable that visits were infrequent . |
| 13 | The flood-water 'll just go right up there and spread out over the town . |
| 14 | As well as causing widespread damage to the fixtures and fittings of Butlin 's Somerset World where they were based they spread out over the local towns and villages , generally hooting their way around , leaving considerable wreckage in their wake . |
| 15 | Melt the cake covering and spread thinly over a cold surface . |
| 16 | ‘ The Safe-Buy concept has been so successful that the scheme is now spreading all over the UK , ’ says Judith Chalmers . |
| 17 | When our turn came , I could see the rifles and guns lying on the table and the long queue of lorries , leaving the land of oranges far behind and spreading out over the winding roads of Lebanon . |
| 18 | The blade was going in to its hilt , in , and in again , and the blood was spreading out over the priest 's hairless chest . |
| 19 | These little buildings were spreading out over the savannah in a game of checkers , with the goal of linking all the pieces into a chain of sound administration . |
| 20 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that if the Labour party implemented even a fraction of the spending priorities that it has been spreading around over the past year or two , to the tune of £30 billion or £40 billion extra expenditure , it would not only have to face the problem of raising taxation , but would have to resort to massive borrowing , which would increase interest rates and greatly damage the economy ? |
| 21 | Once established , the pattern could spread all over the body , until it reached the condition we know today . |
| 22 | Beat the remaining butter into the potatoes , season to taste and spread evenly over the fish . |
| 23 | It was usually something quite silly and trivial , like leaving the taps running in the bath huts or over-stuffing the dustbins so that mess and litter was spread all over the ground , but sometimes someone 's carelessness resulted in the whole inadequate drainage system being completely overloaded and clogged up . |
| 24 | At the same time , the company 's interests had spread all over the world , far beyond the milk-round set up by his father . |
| 25 | They 're spread all over the country , which is why I have to travel so much and why the Consulate had difficulty tracing me . ’ |
| 26 | For years before his death rumours had spread all over the Dales that put his rude good health and longevity to dealings with the Devil and pointed to his long canine teeth as evidence of vampirism . |
| 27 | ‘ Their pictures were spread all over the news bulletins . |
| 28 | Jesus ' fame had spread all over the region ; Matthew , as a man in the centre of the financial world of that place must have heard of Jesus already . |
| 29 | Letters to be read out were spread all over the desk , along with newspaper clippings and research notes on my two guests . |
| 30 | Cherry was spread all over the chaise longue , looking a little more or less natural in his crepe-de-Walthamstow gown . |