Example sentences of "[verb] over [art] [noun] " 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 Practice has differed over the years .
3 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 .
4 Herr Nordern would , yes , although he would no more have refused than he would have tried to jump over the Wall .
5 It is theoretically possible for a cow to jump over the moon with something like the same improbability .
6 The boys were waiting to cross the road here and the horse came down this lane , galloped straight across the road in front of the traffic then onto the pavement , tried to jump over the boys and jumped onto the boys .
7 Not that ready to jump over the edge yet . ’
8 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 .
9 To jump over the gap between two cells , a nerve impulse has to be translated from electricity to chemicals and back .
10 You think the fans are going to jump over the fences and grab you .
11 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 ’ .
12 Bohor reedbuck abounded on these uplands , generally in groups of four to seven ; once I saw as many as eighty scattered over a hillside .
13 Often their estates were not concentrated in a single province , but scattered over a number .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 A motley collection of tawdry items was scattered over an area at least four feet square .
17 Scattered over the hills
18 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 .
19 They lived in small villages scattered over the landscape in varying degrees of density .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 Small granules are scattered over the surface some developed into low spinelets .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 Scattered over the moorland to the left are the remains of hut circles .
26 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 .
27 When they broke down the door the remains of her body were found scattered over the floor .
28 Chunks of blue-green stuff flaked off and scattered over the floor .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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