Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 'll be lovely , I say politely over the telephone , do come round , it 'll be nice to see you . |
| 2 | From the inner-city I steer shakily over the Liffey and through the cobbled streets and mixed primary colours of old Dublin , through a wide stretch of bleak , bland suburbs and onto a motorway . |
| 3 | I walk quietly over the patio , onto the grass and towards the house , just waiting for the blaze of light from the security lamps . |
| 4 | I hear a clattering in the air as McDunn gets out of the Jag and I look up over the trees into high , bright overcast . |
| 5 | When I look back over the years I see impatience as the great sin of life . |
| 6 | I 've been bald from a very early age , but I happen to be in the hairdressing industry and I travel all over the world teaching . |
| 7 | No , I think probably over the years every avenue , other than perhaps this one , has been exploited to the full . |
| 8 | Charlie 'd said he wanted to phone Lilian and when I come back over the road he was in a phone box . |
| 9 | Undoubtedly the strangest of Sulawesi 's amazing fauna , the babirusa , a species of pig with four tusks , two of which curve backwards over the head . |
| 10 | There is a sad inevitability about the battles which wage continuously over the future of the wilder uplands of Scotland . |
| 11 | The beetles protect theirs by turning the front pair into stiff thick covers which fit neatly over the top of the abdomen . |
| 12 | But this year , it has finally decided to flower profusely , forming brownish clouds which drift hazily over the bush . |
| 13 | If you desire more love in your life , throw a tiny heart into the chalice — and see the chalice become filled with tiny hearts , which pour out over the crystal column . |
| 14 | Donald Wilson 's business , Ward and Son , of High Street , Aldeburgh , faces closure because trading standards officials say that his petrol pumps , which swing out over the pavement , are a hazard . |
| 15 | I think it 'll come but , well , we 're rather impatient I think when you look back over the past hundred years you see some massive erm changes which are quite unprecedented . |
| 16 | Householders however , who look out over the proposed site may fear the loss of a pleasant environment and a drop in their property value . |
| 17 | You travel all over the place , you meet a ton of people , you stay in great shape . |
| 18 | You travel all over the world and stay in the top hotels where every room has its own sauna , jacuzzi , and hot and cold running maids . |
| 19 | It is strange to relate that this short stretch of water should be such a barrier but the hills of Wouldham and village are as foreign to some people of Halling as any parts of the world and in fact there are some who travel all over the country and to some places abroad , but have lived all their lives in the village without ever setting foot on the further banks of the river . |
| 20 | can phone anywhere you like all over the world . |
| 21 | I have never had much time for the more esoteric confections you find all over the place . |
| 22 | Guests who stay on over the Friday and Saturday nights and also have dinner in the hotel will receive free accommodation . |
| 23 | ‘ You work all over the place , and you must spend a great deal of time away from home . ’ |
| 24 | Well sir , they 're , we support dipping because it 's already been stated to note that we make most of the money for Shropshire from farming , and sheep is one of the big things which we sell all over the country , but unless we can guarantee our sheep are clear of er , disease people are n't going to come here and buy meat and stuff are they ? |
| 25 | The doctors said that he would have bled to death at a lower altitude and I 'm sure this is so , because as we let down over the Channel his bleeding started again . |
| 26 | If we look back over the record of the last twenty years in our ten countries , we may detect certain common trends , unspectacular , but nevertheless significant . |
| 27 | John Howard , acutely aware of such slippage , argued that good staff and external vigilance were essential if reform efforts were to be sustained , but this view , as we look back over the last two centuries , may have been unduly optimistic . |
| 28 | This is clear if we look back over the years . |
| 29 | If we look back over the past twenty-five years or so , we can distinguish three main phases : |
| 30 | And it 's also important that we look back over the last ten years to how the N H S has been fundamentally changed as a consequence of Tory government policy towards it . |