Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Footsteps are heard all over the building causing surprise and apprehension and expectancy in those visitors who have heard about the phenomena but have n't experienced it . |
| 2 | Table 7 gives some idea of the many Friesian derivatives which have since been developed all over the world . |
| 3 | In London the Shahs ambassador , Parviz Radji , who had been inter alia , the lover of Princes Ashraf , has been agonizing daily over the turn that is country had taken , the corruption of the court of which he was apart , and the inglorious way in which it has now all collapsed . |
| 4 | Counties are designated all over the south . |
| 5 | Such things are happening all over the country . |
| 6 | It is hardly possible to drive through the village and people have been climbing all over the wreck . |
| 7 | Families are like constellations of stars : we see each one as an entity , because they make some recognisable design , yet the individual stars are scattered all over the universe , apart . |
| 8 | The first 20 live closest to the hospital that is to do the transplant , the next 20 are somewhat further afield and the remainder are scattered all over the country . |
| 9 | The teaching faculties and administrative offices are scattered all over the city but , forming a wonderful backdrop to King 's Parade , stands the Senate House . |
| 10 | In more recent times , the present owners turned the old peasants ' houses , which are scattered all over the estate , into pleasant apartments . |
| 11 | And most of us have a general sense that things are pretty gloomy for people in the Third World : we might remember that Sudanese women must walk hours in search of firewood , that Brazilian peasants are still going hungry , that children are dying all over the world of something as simple and easily treatable as diarrhoea . |
| 12 | ‘ But what has been happening in Darlington has been happening all over the country , this has been a national problem . ’ |
| 13 | It 's been happening all over the world for quite some time . ’ |
| 14 | In parenthesis I should say that I am passing quickly over the significance of these four levels of understanding . |
| 15 | Since the death of Tito in 1980 , and with the growing economic crisis , which is felt by Serbians to have particularly affected them ( although there is , in fact , little evidence that Serbia 's relative position has fallen in comparison with Yugoslavia as a whole ) , a growing number of Serb intellectuals have been looking back over the past and asking themselves whether Serbia was discriminated against under ‘ Titoist ’ rule . |
| 16 | oh , right oh then , she said it 's been done all over the country |
| 17 | In fact there was a , I think some of the recent erm concerns about schools have come from an image that 's been built up over a period of time that the schools spend very little time on the , on the three Rs for example . |
| 18 | Bottle bins and cages for newspapers and cardboard have been positioned all over the centre and the scheme will be inaugurated at 2pm on June 17 . |
| 19 | ( Because they are stumbling backwards over a precipitation of hasty , inside-out clothes , say . ) |
| 20 | His drawings and paintings have been exhibited all over the world . |
| 21 | Strong and sometimes quite intense relationships with individuals are built up over a period of even a few weeks . |
| 22 | Clearly memories are not formed instantaneously , as if by throwing a switch , but are built up over a period of hours after the event to be memorized has occurred ; during this build-up the form in which any memory is stored changes . |
| 23 | It reveals all that has been said in the many policy launches and the speeches that have been made all over the country . |
| 24 | One ca n't actually separate them , although you will try to , from all the other rules and regulations we are passing all over the place . |
| 25 | Or had it been shot down over the Channel ? |
| 26 | But long ago , in 1946 , the questing and the questioning had become almost unbearable , and I knew that to keep my sanity I must force myself to an arbitrary conclusion : I would believe the least terrible of terrible possibilities — that the plane had been shot down over the Channel by enemy action . |
| 27 | And th th th they 're known all over the world . |
| 28 | There 's no point in estimating a model if in reality those coefficients are not fixed , they 're jumping all over the place . |
| 29 | They 're spread all over the country , which is why I have to travel so much and why the Consulate had difficulty tracing me . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ They are used all over the school . ’ |