Example sentences of "[adv] over [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the 1988 Act , the governing bodies had control only over religious instruction . |
| 2 | This view is reinforced by the writings of some of the early church fathers such as St John Chrysostom , who observed that there was no conflict over natural common property such as air , sun , water , earth , sea , light and stars or even man-made common property such as baths , cities , markets and arcades , but only over private property which created what he termed that frigid expression ‘ Thine and Mine ’ . |
| 3 | Stir in over moderate heat . |
| 4 | The original author of this book commented in the House of Commons , ‘ Seldom have I seen the House or the Government in quite such a mess … as we are in over this Bill … this House does not contain a majority for this Bill . |
| 5 | ‘ So I 've arranged for a whistle-stop tour around the country houses of some influential contacts , and there are one or two long-standing debts and favours due to me that I 'm going to call in over this weekend . ’ |
| 6 | Character , plumage , feather details , light and shade can be worked in over this framework . |
| 7 | Denis , great Atlanticist , a man with a vivid war experience , former defence secretary , it 's an unlikely position to find you in over this war , is n't it ? |
| 8 | LABOUR 'S transport spokesman John Prescott could step in over British Rail 's plans to sell off a Darlington sports ground . |
| 9 | Wavelets swished idly over white sand and the broad plain of the sea stretched away into darkness . |
| 10 | Elise , tall , red-haired and elegant , occupied pole position on the centre-page shot , wearing one of Leonora 's sweaters , a silver fox-head brooch pinned to the scarf thrown carelessly over one shoulder , the interior of the shop in the background . |
| 11 | ‘ They would n't be swarming all over Kentish Town , would they , those rats and flies ? ’ demanded Constance , opening the tall wooden gate to the back garden . |
| 12 | EUROPE has been treated to high comedy for the past few weeks as governments , corporations and journalists have fallen all over each other in a made game of find-the barrels . |
| 13 | Says a pal : ‘ They were all over each other like a pair of love-struck teenagers . ’ |
| 14 | Later that week on The Gloria Hunniford Show we tried to explain what we 'd seen — and found ourselves , without prior consultation , wrestling each other to the ground and rolling all over each other . |
| 15 | Believe it or not , but we do not tread all over each other to get where we want to go — or at least the majority of us do n't ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You were all over each other on Monday morning . ’ |
| 17 | Managers are often shrieking you know about what 's happening next rather than you know , all their players are jumping with joy all over each other and you think and they 're saying get in your positions . |
| 18 | A second opinion was sought and , short-sightedly , my parents agreed to put me in those gorgeous National Health jobs which are now sported by your average Yuppie but which made you look second only in berkishness to the kid in the owl specs with Elastoplast all over one lens . |
| 19 | A second opinion was sought and , short-sightedly , my parents agreed to put me in those gorgeous National Health jobs which are now sported by your average Yuppie but which then made you look second only in berkishness to the kid in the owl specs with elastoplast all over one lens . |
| 20 | Only problems were that one of them had had been snapped off at the legs and been reglued direct to the base , presumably in an effort to replicate Bremner 's short stature , and also in an effort to simulate Albert Johanneson ( or was it Gerry ? ? ) brown paint had been splurged all over one player , rendering his kit a mucky pink . |
| 21 | " We were accepted all over that year , " Bland said . |
| 22 | We prop the grating open with another branch and spend the next half-hour pulling fallen branches and logs from all over that part of the hill , dragging them into the clump of bushes and throwing them into the shaft ; we snap dead branches off trees and bushes and haul and peel living ones off ; we scrape together armfuls of dry leaf litter and throw those over the edge of the chimney , too ; everything goes under the grating and down into the shaft . |
| 23 | Pig iron you know er pig iron was what they had I 've seen them pouring furnaces pouring it onto the pig beds , and you know when I was a kid when we lived in Caldmore from about half past nine at night all across West Bromwich , Wednesbury all over that area , you 'd see the sky light up and it was due to the pouring of er pouring the pig iron . |
| 24 | Turning the Map : Images from the Americas part one , Christopher Columbus reached America 500 years ago and amid the celebrations of his achievement this two-part exhibition by photographers from all over that continent reminds us that America is not just one country and Columbus ' arrival was not so much a discovery , but more the beginning of colonisation by Europeans ( until 21 Feb ) . |
| 25 | ( This story seems to have originated in North America half a century ago and it has been cropping up all over that continent ever since . ) |
| 26 | Maybe if I spill Coke all over this dress , I could take it off and he might kiss me , kiss my skin like white silk . |
| 27 | ‘ The five-storey concrete tenement slums built by housing boards all over this country are really the work of pessimists . |
| 28 | Back at base , crews make practise drops at locations all over this country . |
| 29 | Our system of construction has been used for many years all over this country , by the sponsoring authorities and others , and erm we do n't have the earthquake requirements , but we do need many high value schools both quickly and on time , and we 've completed something like 2,000 projects similar to this over many years . |
| 30 | ‘ Yessir , now it 's time to see some bloody buggering Yankee guts and glory spread out all over this pub , eh what ? |