Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [adv] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My own vanity , such as it was , could not accept any of this ; in that dressing-gown , and with my hair all over the place , I was hardly something that a chance met man would want to lay claim to . |
| 2 | I estimated that perhaps fifteen minutes ' fishing would salve my honour , and not expecting to catch anything , I let the wind flag my flies out over the water . |
| 3 | DJ here can tell you that he 's travelled all these years and he says he 's run into my guitars all over the world ! ’ |
| 4 | The Rising Star and Half Moon began to shine as I wended my way back over the Skerne Bridge . |
| 5 | But then the entire house , with its views out over the bay and the stunningly wild countryside , was a dream . |
| 6 | Very often , even though the planes came back safely , there would be dead and injured on board , and sometimes a damaged aircraft would have been unable to release its bombs either over the target or in the North Sea on the way home and would have to land back at base with the bombs still on board . |
| 7 | For all its failings , it is the arts centre/civic centre circuit which contains the potential to allow exciting new , as well as still exciting but more established old , talents to take their creativity all over the country . |
| 8 | She ran her fingers slowly over the stubbly , woven texture of a wall-hanging , part woven , part collage . |
| 9 | She ran her fingers gently over the manila surface and felt the outline of something small and cold inside . |
| 10 | Helen whispered , running her fingers reverently over the brilliants in Alexandra 's bracelet . |
| 11 | Alexandra sat in front of her mirror in her new cream silk gown while Lyddy folded her hair carefully over the pads . |
| 12 | He was the sort of man who was always punctual and here she was with her hair all over the place and a shiny nose . |
| 13 | ‘ I saw the evidence with my own eyes , Melanie wearing only a dressing-gown , her hair all over the place . |
| 14 | This means that it is possible to follow their activities closely over the 2 year period of the project . |
| 15 | Running her mind quickly over the events of the week just passed , she could n't think of anything she had done wrong , and Tom Russell was not the kind of doctor who made mountains out of molehills where nursing procedure was concerned . |
| 16 | Her body arched pleadingly beneath him as she reached up , trailing her lips slowly over the now moist , tanned skin of his powerful chest , with its covering of rough dark hair tapering to a point on his flat stomach . |
| 17 | Exercise 9–3 Consider a model where people live for at most three periods and plan to spread their consumption equally over the three periods . |
| 18 | The peoples who survived in the northwest area gained greatly from the mixture of arts and race but retained their individuality also until the tide turned once more and the northwestern island increased its influence eventually over the whole of Spain . |
| 19 | The CARAT ( Cargo Agents Reservation and Air Waybill issuance and Tracking system ) is now on-line to nearly 100 of British Airways ' freight forwarding customers , enabling them to book shipments and track their cargo all over the world without needing to pick a telephone . |
| 20 | Forty-three members of the old party set up an HSWP cell , and urged their comrades all over the country to do the same . |
| 21 | He was being annoying on purpose , she fumed , but , aware that this man easily had her emotions all over the place , she again strove for calm . |
| 22 | Anyway , Irene always complained about the way lupins shed their petals all over the polished table . |
| 23 | As he bent down , wrenching out the cupboard drawers , flinging their contents all over the room , she saw his face , lit up by the lamp . |
| 24 | French farmers hijacked a wine tanker and poured its contents all over the road . |
| 25 | She spoke of Oxford , that ancient seat of learning , to which universities all over the world still looked for example . |
| 26 | But to their right the ditch which bordered the canal was still lush with its summer greenness , its grasses thick over the split tyres , discarded mattresses and scraps of clothing rotting in its depths , and the torn and laden boughs of the willows dropped their thin leaves on to a surface which seemed too oily and stagnant to suck them in . |
| 27 | We maximise sponsor benefits in all media so that they can get their name all over the country . |
| 28 | See all the flashing lights of the vehicles there , they 're they 're so incensed they 're flashing their lights all over the shop at him er as he goes |
| 29 | Doggedly she kept her head down over the jewel-coloured designs , trying to concentrate , but after another few seconds she gave up and laid down her pen with elaborate resignation . |
| 30 | Liturgically , its significance is shown by the increasing numbers of people who attend as pilgrims and depend upon its availability all over the land for their prayerful refreshment . |