Example sentences of "[verb] over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | In 1978 , a DoT study showed that 55 per cent of adults thought being caught over the limit was simply ‘ bad luck ’ . |
2 | Yet she did compromise over the budget at Fontainebleau in 1984 , signed the Single European Act in 1986 , and accepted the Delors proposals for budgeting and agriculture reform in 1988 . |
3 | Herr Nordern would , yes , although he would no more have refused than he would have tried to jump over the Wall . |
4 | It is theoretically possible for a cow to jump over the moon with something like the same improbability . |
5 | Not that ready to jump over the edge yet . ’ |
6 | A squadron of them moving four abreast in perfect formation , frightened because we 'd put the light on , scampering around trying to jump over the bed and the settee . |
7 | To jump over the gap between two cells , a nerve impulse has to be translated from electricity to chemicals and back . |
8 | It was the custom of such military monastic orders to establish ‘ Preceptories ’ in ‘ … desert and uncultivated places , to introduce inhabitants or to civilise those scattered over a wilderness ’ . |
9 | Bohor reedbuck abounded on these uplands , generally in groups of four to seven ; once I saw as many as eighty scattered over a hillside . |
10 | Often their estates were not concentrated in a single province , but scattered over a number . |
11 | Thus , whereas in the relational model information about the object customer would be scattered over a number of relations ( which could be : customer , holding customer name and address information ; sales ledger , holding details about the debts of the customer ; invoice , holding details of payments due ) , in the object-oriented model there would be one object , customer , reflecting all this information . |
12 | The message Macedo carried to the villages — most of them accessible only by boat or along tortuous jungle trails and scattered over an area larger than England — was that the forest 's people should , in uniting , take control of their own destiny . |
13 | A motley collection of tawdry items was scattered over an area at least four feet square . |
14 | Here in this room was virtually every shade of that colour — from the cobalt-blue draperies , scattered with little hyacinth flowers , to the sapphire-blue cushions scattered over the bed and the powder-blue carpet , thick and soft beneath her feet . |
15 | They lived in small villages scattered over the landscape in varying degrees of density . |
16 | Although at some times of the year , individuals within the dogwhelk enclave may be scattered over the shore , at others they aggregate in large clusters . |
17 | The disk is round to subpentagonal ; covered with thickened skin ; no scales but granules are scattered over the surface which are more conspicuous in dried specimens ; disk diameter up to 20 mm . |
18 | Small granules are scattered over the surface some developed into low spinelets . |
19 | She did literally now , ever since that turn she 'd had a few months ago ; frightened of the stairs , the climb when the lifts did n't work , she rarely went out , but stayed surrounded and walled-in by belongings , old letters , cards , souvenirs scattered over the furniture . |
20 | As the dawn slowly broke and the cocks began to crow in unison outside the cottages scattered over the heath , a sensation of rapt stillness cast its spell on him . |
21 | Scattered over the moorland to the left are the remains of hut circles . |
22 | Another powerful smell , of decaying rubbish , came mainly from the ash-pits at the far end of the corridor , but also from a deposit scattered over the floor . |
23 | When they broke down the door the remains of her body were found scattered over the floor . |
24 | Chunks of blue-green stuff flaked off and scattered over the floor . |
25 | Scamp turned to reach down into one of the boxes of groceries that were scattered over the floor but I did n't see what he was after as Nevil was lifting me up by the shoulders . |
26 | They had nearly arrived at the first of the longhouses scattered over the hillside , belonging to the families who stayed in Orphir all the year round and cared for the land and the hall on behalf of the Earl . |
27 | It 's called Oxford Artweek , it lasts a fortnight and has 200 sites scattered over the county . |
28 | Broken glass lay scattered over the cement floor , along with pieces of brick , broken flowerpots , dead leaves . |
29 | Sarah was allowed to dust and polish in Mr Bradford 's rooms , a duty given only to trusted servants since it meant moving many of his important papers , but when she went in there after her return she dropped one of his boxes and everything was scattered over the carpet . |
30 | It smashed , and machinery scattered over the ground . |