Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandblasting of the Great Slab area at Stanage to remove graffiti painted on over the August bank holiday has had the beneficial side effect of totally cleaning the afflicted area of chalk and rubber marks , and has also increased the friction . |
| 2 | To test this particular application of Procedure Audit , a monitoring process was established in a section of thirty persons , and the administrative assistant briefed to record the number of queries referred back over a period of two months . |
| 3 | You 'll what you 'll end up with is different organisations managing houses scattered all over the city . |
| 4 | Formulation of the plan seems to be the result of a complex but highly structured process of consultations and meetings carried out over a six month period , and culminating in the ratification of the plan by the full Politburo . |
| 5 | Mr. Philpot travelled from Pembrokeshire for a gathering which was not primarily a fund-raising event , but rather a celebration of the building carried out over the previous fifteen years to provide extensions of both premises and facilities . |
| 6 | With the enclosure of the open fields and the redistribution of the land mostly in compact blocks instead of strips scattered all over the parish , one would have expected the old open-field village to disintegrate as the village farmers built new farmsteads on their allotments . |
| 7 | Thus , research carried out over the past few years indicates that the traits described above actually overlap considerably with those found in so-called ‘ schizotypal ’ individuals , i.e. People whose temperamental make-up seems similar to that underlying schizophrenia , continuous with it in the personality domain but without any obvious signs of psychotic illness . |
| 8 | And there was plenty of crap strewn all over the pavement , so he had to be more careful . |
| 9 | The warning came after a meeting of Ards Borough Council last week in which Ulster Unionist Ronnie Ferguson put forward a motion that the council should offer free collection of waste to the Orange Order , which has halls dotted all over the borough . |
| 10 | More sepoys poured forward over the bodies of their fellows and a number of the defenders who had lingered too long hammering nails into the vents of the cannons were cut down as they tried to make their way back to the shelter of the buildings ; many more would have perished had not a small rescuing party which included Rayne , Fleury , half a dozen Sikhs and a couple of Eurasian clerks , wielding sabres and bayonets , surged forward in a sudden counter-attack to surround their companions and drag them back . |
| 11 | The auk tribe ( guillemots , razorbills and puffins ) , which spend the winter scattered widely over the ocean , will also be heading inshore towards their breeding cliffs . |
| 12 | The Dorset , Devon and Cornwall holiday areas benefited from the good summer weather and from the upgrading of pubs carried out over the last few years . |
| 13 | Until the move in the 1860s to a new building with adequate space , it was dispersed on shelves scattered all over the old one , with the books crowded three rows deep on the shelves so that only those in the front row were visible , and no catalogue of it existed . |
| 14 | It will build on and continue the work carried out over the past three years by the WACC-Asia Region 's Women 's Desk , which was based in Manila , Philippines . |
| 15 | As young models , Liz and Vanessa become friends and then rivals , their lives linked inextricably over the years . |
| 16 | The field they were in had British as well as German mines sown all over the place . |
| 17 | But even when there were teams of twenty or thirty workmen ‘ tripping over each other ’ , as Laura told a friend , with beds scattered all over the place and no curtains , ‘ it still has a very romantic atmosphere ’ . |
| 18 | There were American military bases scattered all over the Islands : they were there to protect the Pacific . |
| 19 | There were incendiaries scattered all over the airfield for days , being picked up and made safe — another job for the armourers . |
| 20 | The collection comes from almost fifty digs carried out over the last twenty years . |
| 21 | The collection comes from almost fifty digs carried out over the last twenty years . |
| 22 | There was no name painted up over the door . |
| 23 | He produced two large atlases of estate maps ; the Stowe Atlas of thirty-three manuscript maps on vellum , detailing estates owned by the Grenville family around Kilkhampton , and the Lanhydrock Atlas of four large volumes containing 258 manuscript maps on vellum , compiled between 1694 and 1699 , of properties scattered widely over the county belonging to the Robartes family . |
| 24 | Officers strutted in their brightest breacan-feiles ; the same length of a finer cloth , four and a half feet wide , held at the waist by a silver-buckled belt to fall double thickness , and the outside layer at the back drawn up over the left shoulder and pinned with a great silver brooch . |
| 25 | This has nothing to do with how policemen look nor even of never having heard of a bunch called James , who are apparently big stars , have their name emblazoned all over a chic t-shirt and of whom one had never heard till yesterday . |
| 26 | The company sent the editor a gift of a new product , with his name emblazoned all over the top . |
| 27 | Amphibians have moist skins and keep them so with slime produced from small glands distributed all over the body . |
| 28 | Seen through the passing traffic a bearded man in an army cap and mirror shades emerged — the bulging muscles of his torso scantily covered by a black vest — jacket thrown casually over the shoulder — he paused and then walked slowly off the screen . |
| 29 | His room 's a dustbin with lists of objects pinned all over the walls — no , I do n't know what it means . |
| 30 | There were bodies scattered all over the road , people lying on the pavement and propped against walls . |