Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun prp] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen was still in bed but sitting up and there were books on Vangmoor all over the quilt . |
| 2 | BT has provided £75,000 in support of Teesside Tomorrow over the past three years . |
| 3 | There is going to be all forms of Jihad all over the world because there is a sacred element , there is an element erm of er which is the presence of a foreign non-Muslim force in the Holy Land ; this is a very explosive element . |
| 4 | To me there are prototypes of Alf all over the country : far too many of them in fact . |
| 5 | But his stable revealed that the 10-year-old could be diverted to the Hackett Chase at Cheltenham tomorrow over a distance just over half a mile shorter than the Mackeson . |
| 6 | A second opinion was sought and , short-sightedly , my parents agreed to put me in those gorgeous National Health jobs which are now sported by your average Yuppie but which made you look second only in berkishness to the kid in the owl specs with Elastoplast all over one lens . |
| 7 | Mr Scargill met British Coal officials in London yesterday over the disputed consultation procedures for closing the ten pits where production has already stopped . |
| 8 | From the pattern of ocean floor magnetic anomalies it is possible to trace the movement of India northwards over the past 80 Ma or so ( Fig. 3.23 ) . |
| 9 | Does my hon. Friend agree that many leaders of local industry are giving their time and experience to ensure the great success of TECs all over the United Kingdom and that it is imperative that we , the Government , ensure that they are properly funded ? |
| 10 | LEADING Tory John Gummer quit the Church of England yesterday over its move to bring in women priests . |
| 11 | I am acutely conscious that I have been a source of aggravation to Pa recently over my stupid allergy to vegetables ; it can not be pleasant to see the products one has slaved over summer and winter being regurgitated on to the dinner plate of one 's elder child . |
| 12 | The action smacked too much of the grandiose , if futile , gesture of the French nobility at Crécy just over a century earlier . |
| 13 | Students and staff at the Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education , many of them fellow members of the college rugby team , wept during a performance of Elton John 's Yellow Brick Road , the favourite tune of student , Murray Pugh , stabbed to death in Cheltenham just over a month ago . |
| 14 | Hundreds of members of the Women 's Institute have been lobbying MPs at Westminster today over their fears about food irradiation . |