Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became tremendously emotional and … compelling in his language … about the need to save Latin America , to save freedom , that these people were sacrificing for America and for freedom all over the world . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd have given birth to twins and discovered what song the Sirens sang , and vaporized and condensed and fallen as snow all over central Calcutta . ’ |
| 3 | In the sultry haze of late August , the only noises were the cicadas , the splash of the children in the pool and the rumble of thunder away over the Gorges du Verdon . |
| 4 | What a growing part of agriculture all over the world had in common was subjection to the industrial world economy . |
| 5 | And the worst thing you can do is to screw it all up by putting a lot of technique all over it ! ' |
| 6 | You keep meeting the same people in a sector of industry all over the world . ’ |
| 7 | After I had left her she had spilt her cup of tea all over the bedclothes , which had soon become not only wet but cold and wet . |
| 8 | It ploughed into the ground scattering debris and bits of aluminium all over the place . |
| 9 | the following morning I went out no numberplate and there were bits of car all over the street but |
| 10 | the surface of light just over the border . |
| 11 | A beautiful silver starfish , with points of light all over its body , sapphire and rose-pink and silver . |
| 12 | Instead of hunting all over the sky , the pilots concentrated on one scatter of targets and spiralled down through them , turning tightly in order to cut down the risk of collision . |
| 13 | Paul took this message about life and the mystery of humanity all over the Mediterranean world . |
| 14 | the nationalists do n't have so much of hold now over the south . |
| 15 | A The use of sand directly over a sub gravel filter is not recommended . |
| 16 | Suddenly , as we were about fifty yards from that lovely smell of coffee , there was an almighty roar as the barn blew up , scattering burning straw and all kinds of debris all over the farm area . |
| 17 | The worship of , or professed belief in , a god of some kind is to be found in varying degrees of sincerity all over the world . |
| 18 | But finally the itching was too much for him and we got up one morning to find plaster of Paris and remnants of bandage all over the carpet where he had irritably scissored it off at two in the morning . |
| 19 | The day had got off to a bad start as it was ( late for work , lost the shop key , spilt a load of fish-food all over the floor and then cracked my head on a shelf while clearing it up ) . |
| 20 | For minor members of foreign missions , of whom ambassadors ' secretaries were the most important , gold chains continued during much of the seventeenth century to be a very common form of gift all over Europe . |
| 21 | This was made explicit by Louis Agassiz , a Swiss who had in 1840 recognized marks of glaciation all over northern Europe and thus given us the idea of ice ages . |
| 22 | Our task today is to increase the international pressure on behalf of the thousands of prisoners of conscience all over the world , to make tomorrow the day their freedom is restored . |
| 23 | The event was held in the school library and messages of hope were written to prisoners of conscience all over the world . |
| 24 | A good cook , evidently , though somewhat vulgarized by recent service with an American family who liked bits of pineapple all over things . |
| 25 | For ears treated surgically there was no significant advantage of adenoidectomy alone over the baseline category of tube insertion alone . |
| 26 | But there is also widespread support for state or collective provision of welfare even over tax cuts . |
| 27 | He preferred painting on a closely woven canvas , and sometimes when he had finished the work he placed a sheet of paper carefully over the fresh paint to merge the colours . |
| 28 | Went to the Royal Academy when I was doing my 'O' Levels , it was a Jackson follow up it was about , ambulance was about twelve foot by twelve foot , it was literally splodges of paint all over the fucking place , it was horrible , you can actually buy them at the Royal Academy , you ca n't buy them at , but he was asking a hundred thousand pounds for it , I could n't believe it , a trained monkey could of fucking painted that |
| 29 | And she 's dropped a tin of paint all over her trainers . |
| 30 | Many can forage above ground at night but they laboriously shield themselves from predators by constructing covered run-ways , and thin crusts of mud all over the vegetation they are plundering . |