Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv prt] [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Business has been built up steadily over the last 12 years in Germany , Denmark , Spain , France , Eire and Greece , and more recently in Eastern Europe , the Czech Republic and Slovakia . |
| 2 | It is also necessary not to view policies in a static way ; they have been built up slowly over a long period and they are still changing . |
| 3 | They have discovered that problems that they thought had to be brought in person to a bureau , can in fact be carried out successfully over the telephone . |
| 4 | It is expected to be used up gradually over the relevant period — 15 or 18 years in this case — so as to be exhausted by the end of the period . |
| 5 | Instead the characters will be phased out gradually over the next six months . |
| 6 | Morrells Brewery says it 's planning to offer managers at its pubs extra cash to cover the tax which is due to be introduced in just over a fortnight 's time , but the Oxford-based firm says it 'll only pay the equivalent of the initial government estimates for the charge , which in most cases falls well below the actual figure . |
| 7 | Figures for 1991 reveal that this sort of tradgedy is being played out all over the south of England . |
| 8 | Although Wilhelm 's army was no match for the total power of the Waaagh , Grom 's forces were split up all over the Empire into many small armies . |
| 9 | ‘ Something like 90,000 acres of trees per minute are being chopped down all over the world , ’ contributed Lydia off the top of her head . |
| 10 | Her clothes were spread out all over the bed , and at first she could n't figure out what they were doing there . |
| 11 | It 's one of hundreds being put up all over the country and residents say it was put there without planning permission or consultation . |
| 12 | With a £250,000 advance under his belt , Mr Seth has created a best-seller and with rights being snapped up all over the world he is well on his way to becoming a millionaire . |
| 13 | As I went upstairs I thought how much I hated being shoved around all over the place . |
| 14 | A huge cast of characters — each of whom are given intermeshing chapters to narrate the US perspective on the mess and sacrifice of World War Two — is flung out all over the globe . |
| 15 | So I go back and I 'm standing in the doorway , and there 's this kid on the bed and he 's thrown up all over the cover and now he 's starting to shake . |