Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was built by Francis Smallman , whose initials and those of his wife Ellen appear all over the plasterwork ceilings . |
| 2 | Place the horses inside the stable holes , securing them with royal icing and positioning them so that their heads peep out over the doors . |
| 3 | Shortages vary somewhat over the country . |
| 4 | It really wo n't do to talk airily about businessmen and business women as if emergency pools of these super-executives exist all over the country , ready to plug the numerous gaps left by the incompetence of Noddy and know-nothing councils that are councillors and magistrates . |
| 5 | By the late eleventh century the hand of Cluny was felt in houses spread all over the north of Spain and down into Italy , even to La Cava near Naples and over into Sicily , and also across the south and west of Germany in the movement which had its centre in Hirsau . |
| 6 | But , in Britain as in much of Europe , soils change markedly over a few miles or tens of miles , so targets must be set to protect the most sensitive soils , such as those based on sand or overlying hard , naturally ‘ base-poor ’ rocks . |
| 7 | The Great Turtle was a mere hypothesis until the day the small and secretive kingdom of Krull , whose rim-most mountains project out over the Rimfall , built a gantry and pulley arrangement at the tip of the most precipitous crag and lowered several observers over the Edge in a quartz-windowed brass vessel to peer through the mist veils . |
| 8 | Migration followed the establishment of a world economic system : Indians spread all over the British Empire ; Chinese went to Singapore and Indonesia . |
| 9 | Rats run freely over the shrouded corpses which lie abandoned in the corridors . |
| 10 | Evidently there were nesting holes in the sheer face below them , for as the light grew they saw three or four martins dart out over the stream and away into the fields beyond . |
| 11 | The gardens look out over the Bay of Tremezzina , and all of the bedrooms have lovely lake views . |
| 12 | Even relatively small preferences made year by year by the same committee add up over a decade to a major strategic shift in budget priorities . |
| 13 | Miss Menzies felt certain it was in the garage at Mr Steen 's Orme Gardens house all over the weekend . |
| 14 | In the summer dusk the pale hatched moths float out over the riverside . |
| 15 | It is a rambling Tudor house run by John and Margaret Parker , whose breakfast room and drawing room look out over a wonderful walled garden , beyond which fields of grazing cows stretch down to the river . |
| 16 | Whatever influence Le Fanu 's works may have had on Stoker , the young Dublin boy must have known that in the prevalent Celtic legends the graves open all over the Irish countyside on All Souls ’ Night and the dead walk across the fields — and Irving 's performances and demeanour sealed the future of his fictional imagination . |
| 17 | Wick waits , remembering the herring more recently ; the lovely old buildings stare blankly over the vast harbour once a forest of masts . |
| 18 | Fishermen scurry all over the seas catching anchovies ; quarrymen have long made a living scraping guano from the bird-rich islands . |
| 19 | But perhaps the most impressive sight of all — if only because most brains , when faced with the sheer galactic enormity of A'Tuin , refuse to believe it — is the endless Rimfall , where the seas of the disc boil ceaselessly over the Edge into space . |
| 20 | Miliary er i it it refers , well you 've heard of millet seed and it 's it refers to a seeding of many different lesions er , around the body it means the disseminated form of of tuberculosis where the lesions occur all over the place . |
| 21 | He looked down at the scatter of handwritten pages spread all over the table , and tensed his body as though anticipating a blow . |
| 22 | Fox hounds get all over the place if you 're not careful . ’ |
| 23 | The headstock is gently raked back , and the strings pass directly over the nut to the Schaller machines . |
| 24 | I watched the distant cloud from the explosion drift away over the firth , dispersing , then I turned and ran as fast as I could for the house . |
| 25 | c ) Viciousness. d ) Senile degeneration — owners differ tremendously over the point they consider a dog to be no longer ‘ enjoying life ’ . |
| 26 | Making sure to appear casual , he carefully watched the men in dinner jackets and the women in full-length décolleté dresses move slowly over the red carpet towards the restaurant at the rear , or climb the staircase to the gaming rooms . |
| 27 | With its combination of beauty , beaches , culture and history , it has been long been a favourite holiday destination and its hot temperatures have drawn sun seekers form all over the world . |
| 28 | The new 58 beautifully manifests the Hood theory that displacement yachts with reduced wetted surface behave better over a wider range of conditions . |
| 29 | This is how these men make themselves into all those freak things where muscles bulge all over the place , they look as if they 're about to , I 'm not quite sure , they always remind of erm those balloons , you know , that pop off beach balls , they look a bit like that . |
| 30 | For crude oil , Quan ( 1992 ) found that the spot price led the futures price by over a month , and this unusual result was attributed to the dominance of the spot market for oil . |