Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] over [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the funny thing is : I thought I was more or less over Irene . |
| 2 | Jay giggled along with him , they cried on each other 's shoulders and , every week or so over cocktails , swore to marry each other . |
| 3 | And let me tell you , if you were to have come into our servants ' hall on any of those evenings , you would not have heard mere gossip ; more likely , you would have witnessed debates over the great affairs preoccupying our employers upstairs , or else over matters of import reported in the newspapers ; and of course , as fellow professionals from all walks of life are wont to do when gathered together , we could be found discussing every aspect of our vocation . |
| 4 | According to John Dunster , then a scientist with the AEA and now chairman of the NRPB , the main radioactive cloud travelled south-east across most of England and on over Europe . |
| 5 | Several times deer crashed away through the undergrowth on their approach , leaping up and down over obstacles . |
| 6 | As we bopped up and down over Hampshire in the world 's quietest helicopter , the McDonnell-Douglas 520 , we were told the story of a former Luftwaffe pilot , now aged 65 , who still ferries little propeller craft across the pond from America to England . |
| 7 | The man is moving up and down over Andy , his backside looks large and white against the green of the ferns ; he still has the rucksack on and it looks weird , frightening and comical at the same time . |
| 8 | And he says his days of tripping the light fantastic on the dance floor are well and truely over thanks to the injury . |
| 9 | In northern parts 1623–24 was equally bad and all over England 1630 was long remembered as a year of dearth . |
| 10 | These two bodies exercise various functions , mainly in relation to the thirty-four national museums under the Ministry of Culture and all over France , which include the Louvre and the Musée d'Orsay . |
| 11 | Using his Leicester home as an office , he found himself working up to 80 hours a week , corresponding with people in America , Australia and all over Europe . |
| 12 | Tomorrow they will go back to their units , Which are scattered from Hong Kong to Berlin , Northern Ireland and all over Great Britain . |
| 13 | Surpluses on a period of account should not be automatically lost , if they can be demonstrated to be the result of efficient working and not over budgeting , otherwise controllers will ensure that there are no surpluses . |
| 14 | But the County Council still has some longer term debt , not external but internally , that is being paid now and not over time , and so the position actually will not change , so long as the Council continues to have more credit approval than it requires to use the new borrowing . |
| 15 | Diagrams can take perfectly reliable data and through over simplification deliberately or unintentionally mislead . |
| 16 | Below us , the pale grey shape of a quartering male hen harrier flew back and forth over reed beds until it spied prey — and on an instant dropped to the ground . |
| 17 | When she takes him into the living-room there is a kind of roar , and a man emerges from the background of people and easy chairs , and advances upon Howard , his arms outstretched , his deep , dark eyes raking back and forth over Howard 's face , soaking it in with eager amazement . |
| 18 | The charcoal-brown eyes flicked quickly and dismissively over Virginia , lingering admiringly on Guy 's lean hardness . |
| 19 | She talked incessantly and joyously over coffee in the feminine precincts of the main dress shop : about Aurae Phiala itself , about Orrie , and the village community of Moulden , about Bill Lawrence and his aspirations . |
| 20 | At one end is an opening called the anus , though the term is not completely appropriate for the animal uses it not only for excretion but for breathing as well , sucking water gently in and out over tubules just inside the body . |
| 21 | As a result she was present at the important council meetings at the end of the year and it would be surprising if her voice was not heard in the discussions about the future of Aquitaine — all the more so since she could be expected to have some influence over her children , and particularly over Richard . |
| 22 | I can still see her as I first met her , a skinny , energetic schoolgirl with a flower in her shining black hair , who quickly grew into a beautiful woman and whose life became entwined with mine as together we triumphed over disease , over prejudice and even over war . |
| 23 | Officials there are regularly and publicly taken to task at conservation meetings in Britain and abroad over Britain 's absence from the convention . |
| 24 | After the gym it 's back home to his son Buster and fiance Gaynor , and then over breakfast the hard bit , to read about England 's exploits in the Test match against Pakistan . |
| 25 | His derisory gaze swept over her , and then over Neil , who , at the jeering note in Havvie 's voice , and the addressing of McAllister by her correct Christian name , had suddenly stiffened . |
| 26 | It was not only on Central American airstrips that winking went on , but all over Washington . |
| 27 | But all over Britain , in far less august surroundings , every day equally serious damage is done to people playing all sorts of sport from karate to table tennis . |