Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adv] over " in BNC.

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1 ‘ And I presume this sort of thing goes on all over the country ? ’
2 Lights began to go on all over Princedale Road .
3 The statues came tumbling down all over the Soviet Union .
4 Yeah , swinging around us , literally big panes of glass and they were flying down and as soon as they got away from the houses , it opened up again , they were crashing down all over my drive and all over the road out there
5 The position of the outlets on the fascia board can be determined by a plumbline hanging down centrally over the gully or drain inlet .
6 Part of the rope still swung there , hanging down directly over the water .
7 For some time all three moved on quietly over the grass , while the shadows grew stronger and the wood-pigeons clattered among the distant trees .
8 Voices are signing off all over Deptford as guys quit their lookout duties and come rushing over .
9 MARTIN Offiah has been let off lightly over his Charity Shield loser 's medal snub .
10 A deep depression with a centre varying between 968 and 978 millibars moved from the Faroes to the mouth of the Elbe , while behind it a ridge of high pressure built up strongly over the Atlantic .
11 I suppose it built up slowly over the years … ’
12 Begin by exercising moderately for 5–10 minutes per day , and build up gradually over a period of a month .
13 The sun had come out fully over the abbey mills and the narrow bridge of Meole brook , and in the foregate there was bustle enough .
14 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 .
15 On 21 September , Gracey ( whose division was not yet all in Saigon ) issued a general order stating that the transition from war to peace conditions would be carried out all over southern Indo-China under his command .
16 Not like now with all these casualties walking around all over the place , getting into fights . ’
17 While he , Owen , was tearing around all over the place like a bloody lunatic !
18 Mildred realized that her head had reappeared , which must have looked rather alarming , bobbing about all over the place with no body attached .
19 And , yes , there are a couple of lines around the eyes , and a grey hair or twenty ( at least they 're all together in a neat bunch , not lurking about all over the place ) and the neck does n't look too good in some , particularly unflattering , lights , but then I do n't suppose yours would , either .
20 Flora put her hands over her ears and began to jump about all over the kitchen .
21 In no sense did it correspond to the experience of student activism that so many of my generation were to go through elsewhere over the next few years .
22 Lights came on all over the Ship .
23 Do you want God knows how many gallons of water cascading down all over us ? "
24 Feet came along smartly over the sand and dirt of the path , were cushioned briefly by the grass of the bank into inaudibility , then snapped over twigs and beech-husks .
25 In his first major interview since moving to Chrysler as chairman elect , he says : ‘ The problem with the Elan was very simple : it came in dramatically over its cost target and its investment target , and the marketplace did n't put as much value on the vehicle as it cost to build it . ’
26 the problem with the Elan is very simple : it came in dramatically over its cost target and its investment target , and the marketplace did n't put as much value on the vehicle as it cost to build it .
27 You see it written down all over the place incorrectly .
28 Maintaining heading , we cross the A45 Stowmarket by-pass by another easily identifiable bridge/village/road pattern ( T ) and look for Crowfield ( U ) which should appear in just over half-a- thumb 's length ( about two minutes ) after the dual-carriageway .
29 To put it broadly — ignoring all the smaller points of detail — one landscape has grown up piecemeal over centuries , the other is almost entirely planned on a large scale .
30 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 .
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