Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] over the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were dead birds all over the streets . |
| 2 | General situation : Cloudy in Scotland and Northern Ireland with rain , heavy at times especially over the hills . |
| 3 | After I had left her she had spilt her cup of tea all over the bedclothes , which had soon become not only wet but cold and wet . |
| 4 | Using a brush dipped lightly in purple food colouring ( mixed with a little water for lighter shades ) , colour the windows dark purple and tint the bricks all over the towers different shades of lavender . |
| 5 | There was blood all over the windows , too , and Magee had to wipe it away with the sleeve of his coat in order to see through the windscreen . |
| 6 | At Ferrari it waited for him to put a foot wrong and there was blood all over the walls . ’ |
| 7 | The Tories are likely to have blood all over the walls , cabinet ministers being torn apart by the multitudes and so on . |
| 8 | ‘ She had been shot in the head and there was blood all over the sheets . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Lord Gnome had returned to Branson intermittently over the years , christening him ‘ a reptilian little shit ’ in stories which Branson always maintained were ‘ inaccuracies ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ Nothing too personal , I suppose , but he was throwing his weight about over the steps at the old people 's place . ’ |
| 12 | The Radio 1 playlist has changed its shape , size and effect considerably over the years . |
| 13 | in their books Beyond the Best Interests of the Child ( 1973 ) and Before the Best Interests of the Child ( 1980 ) made two fundamental claims that were to influence child care practice considerably over the years . |
| 14 | In the sultry haze of late August , the only noises were the cicadas , the splash of the children in the pool and the rumble of thunder away over the Gorges du Verdon . |
| 15 | In a few seconds the fuse caught , and after about ten seconds the mass of flame blew up and out , throwing something black and smoking twenty metres or more into the late-afternoon air and scattering pieces all over the Grounds . |
| 16 | The two boys were splashing the fuel frenziedly over the walls and windows of the cainca when their father found them . |
| 17 | Alexandra sat in front of her mirror in her new cream silk gown while Lyddy folded her hair carefully over the pads . |
| 18 | Escaping into the downstairs loo , which had photographs of Drew in various polo teams all over the walls , Daisy repaired her pink , shiny face . |
| 19 | Then there was water all over the stairs and she 'd yelled ‘ Get me to the hospital ’ . |
| 20 | We arrived after dark in a major city driving on roads that were tarmacked in places with workers going home from work milling all over the roads with not a street light to be seen ! |
| 21 | ‘ Which they wo n't now they 've got Micky 's name all over the posters . ’ |
| 22 | The tank has green hairy algae all over the rocks , heaterstat , gravel and glass . |
| 23 | Seconds later Blues ' midfielder Lee Doherty headed the ball just over the Reds ' crossbar from Stephen Beatty 's left wing cross . |
| 24 | Helen whispered , running her fingers reverently over the brilliants in Alexandra 's bracelet . |
| 25 | They only ever come around to yours when the sink 's full of washing-up , there 's a pile of dirty washing on the kitchen floor , the sitting room looks as if it has n't been Hoovered for a month , there are empty Smarties packets down the sides of the chairs , toast crumbs all over the tables , cobwebs in the corner and you 've run out of coffee . |
| 26 | Wales is not the most prosperous part of the United Kingdom and there is great bitterness there over the antics of Welsh Water . |
| 27 | She was humiliated by her own ignorance , felt herself losing control completely over the ideas she had begun to hammer out and grasp . |
| 28 | He felt reluctant to tackle the journey back over the moors until daylight , and turned the horse instead down the lane to Cherry Tree Farm . |
| 29 | There had always been a continued physical Jewish presence there over the centuries ; it was for the Jews too an ancient homeland . |
| 30 | Place your hands gently over the eyes , the heels of your hands creating the darkness , with the fingers extending down over the temples . |