Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | MARTIN Offiah has been let off lightly over his Charity Shield loser 's medal snub . |
| 2 | The sun had come out fully over the abbey mills and the narrow bridge of Meole brook , and in the foregate there was bustle enough . |
| 3 | They have discovered that problems that they thought had to be brought in person to a bureau , can in fact be carried out successfully over the telephone . |
| 4 | On 21 September , Gracey ( whose division was not yet all in Saigon ) issued a general order stating that the transition from war to peace conditions would be carried out all over southern Indo-China under his command . |
| 5 | You see it written down all over the place incorrectly . |
| 6 | To put it broadly — ignoring all the smaller points of detail — one landscape has grown up piecemeal over centuries , the other is almost entirely planned on a large scale . |
| 7 | It is also necessary not to view policies in a static way ; they have been built up slowly over a long period and they are still changing . |
| 8 | Business has been built up steadily over the last 12 years in Germany , Denmark , Spain , France , Eire and Greece , and more recently in Eastern Europe , the Czech Republic and Slovakia . |
| 9 | erm the minor awards or discretionary awards as they became and that 's erm , I was given this job and er that 's how it 's built up really over the years . |
| 10 | Yeah I know but they do n't turn up and you get all tangled up all over the place |
| 11 | It is expected to be used up gradually over the relevant period — 15 or 18 years in this case — so as to be exhausted by the end of the period . |
| 12 | Instead the characters will be phased out gradually over the next six months . |
| 13 | A huge cast of characters — each of whom are given intermeshing chapters to narrate the US perspective on the mess and sacrifice of World War Two — is flung out all over the globe . |
| 14 | Figures for 1991 reveal that this sort of tradgedy is being played out all over the south of England . |
| 15 | Morrells Brewery says it 's planning to offer managers at its pubs extra cash to cover the tax which is due to be introduced in just over a fortnight 's time , but the Oxford-based firm says it 'll only pay the equivalent of the initial government estimates for the charge , which in most cases falls well below the actual figure . |
| 16 | Ethno-religious conflicts have sprung up all over the world in recent years . |
| 17 | ‘ Something like 90,000 acres of trees per minute are being chopped down all over the world , ’ contributed Lydia off the top of her head . |
| 18 | Although Wilhelm 's army was no match for the total power of the Waaagh , Grom 's forces were split up all over the Empire into many small armies . |
| 19 | The length of life we can expect to enjoy has gone up markedly over that period and the number of children who die before the age of five in developing countries has been reduced by half . |
| 20 | Standards have gone up consistently over the six years of the league and , although still dominated by a new wave of running clubs that have burgeoned over the last decade , more and more of the traditional athletics clubs have been paying more attention to the competition . |
| 21 | Well he 'll be pissed off all over it with football boots on . |
| 22 | So I go back and I 'm standing in the doorway , and there 's this kid on the bed and he 's thrown up all over the cover and now he 's starting to shake . |
| 23 | It 's one of hundreds being put up all over the country and residents say it was put there without planning permission or consultation . |
| 24 | Her clothes were spread out all over the bed , and at first she could n't figure out what they were doing there . |
| 25 | or to Jesus and to confuse their language that they may not listen to one another 's language and accordingly Jehovah scattered them from there over all the surface of the earth so , and that was God 's purpose for them to be er spread out all over the earth cos God knew that city life would only break down and all these centuries have passed since then and there 's urgent proof throughout the year , the cities , the cities do n't work so God had his own way , give it , the one , his way is the only one that works and thus when we pray for this king of |
| 26 | Very bumpy , with small wheels you get thrown around all over the place |
| 27 | With a £250,000 advance under his belt , Mr Seth has created a best-seller and with rights being snapped up all over the world he is well on his way to becoming a millionaire . |
| 28 | Kitchener 's ‘ Your Country Needs You ’ poster was plastered up all over Glasgow . |
| 29 | Seven fire engines were called , and traffic was held up all over London . |
| 30 | As I went upstairs I thought how much I hated being shoved around all over the place . |