Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disregarding the influx of early 1956 , which involved about 150 birds and appears quite exceptional , the average number seen per year rose from just over one to 14 between 1952 and 1962 , jumped to 70 or more per year between 1963 and 1972 , and rose to over 100 per year between 1973 and 1976 . |
| 2 | And that 's where he moved from here over the road and after then he used to have his own , see , he had a slaughterhouse built at the back , see , he done away with the slaughterhouse down the piste and he used to kill all his stuff there . |
| 3 | The gypsies gathered at the horse fair came from all over the place so he could be anywhere after that . |
| 4 | People came from all over Britain — from a quiet Scottish village to the suburbs of Manchester — but everyone appeared to have a relatively comfortable background . |
| 5 | Students came from all over Europe , a number of them boarding with him and his mistress , paving fees for private tuition . |
| 6 | Gifts and visitors came from all over the English-speaking world as television stations overseas , alerted by all the publicity , snapped up transmission rights . |
| 7 | Lustful travellers came from all over the world to watch him dance , naked except for a silk cap atop his curls . |
| 8 | Contributions came from all over the United Kingdom . |
| 9 | A lot of people came from all over the world here , and that makes it absolutely different from any other country . |
| 10 | Up until 1945 its members came from all over Germany and abroad . |
| 11 | And after thirty-five years with the Duke she had hundreds of pieces , which came from all over the world . |
| 12 | On the contrary , I found it fairly positive to announce that complaints were down to one ( now doubled ) ; that in recession 1,266 entries were judged ; that entries came from all over the world ; that the system had changed in direct response to comments made by members . |
| 13 | Speakers came from all over the world thanks to new and generous sponsorship from British Airways . |
| 14 | The census returns show that when people left London they usually moved only short distances but that migrants into London came from all over the place . |
| 15 | They came from all over Gloucestershire for a typical Victorian day out … a trip on a steamer to the seaside resort of Ilfracombe.Six hundred and fifty climbed aboard the Balmoral at Lydney dock … making the most of the chance of a lifetime.After all the last pleasure boat to attract the crowds down to Lydney dock for a trip to Devon was the paddle steamer Ravenswood in 1893 . |
| 16 | The Wellington crews who were trained here came from all over the world . |
| 17 | They came from all over the country to show their displeasure . |
| 18 | They came from all over America the men of the Three Hundred and Ninetieth Bombardment Group , one of the most decorated and acclaimed sections of America 's wartime military machines . |
| 19 | This was my first sight and smell of the deliciously flavoured delicacies that came from all over Europe . |
| 20 | He came from all over Macaw or somewhere down there he came from . |
| 21 | They arrived from all over the place , from the big houses locally to as far away as London . |
| 22 | His university duties consisted chiefly of marking examinations five or six times a year , avalanches of which arrived from all over the country ; he found it increasingly difficult to judge them , unable to make up his mind about marks while driven by conscience to become ever more scrupulous . |
| 23 | The music faded in discord , and squeals and shouts resounded from all over the room . |
| 24 | By May 23 , according to the UN information service , the aid actually received by the government of Bangladesh amounted to just over US$250,000,000 . |
| 25 | As soon as they heard the angelus ring they gathered from all over the big house to the supper table . |
| 26 | He had pumped all his savings into building the boat , using bits and pieces scrounged from all over the Middle East , and was suspiciously eager to part with it . |
| 27 | Hundreds of twitchers — bird-spotters , to the rest of us — grabbed their binoculars and swarmed from all over Britain to the Asda car park at South Woodham Ferrers . |
| 28 | Despite its very small membership at the start , the FMS soon grew to well over 1 .000 members , with branches in most regions of the country : |
| 29 | Some of these engines ran for well over a century before being discarded , and particularly fine and huge specimens can be found operating at the Kew steam engine museum . |
| 30 | But the young Swede 's heroic 65 ended in tears when he missed from just over a yard at the final hole , while Love sank a twisting 15 footer and Couples followed him in from 18 inches . |