Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bang on them , drag them all over the place , throw them around ! ’ |
| 2 | To the uninitiated it might seem that the shunters are engaged in a game of hide-and-seek with the trucks ; they appear to scatter them all over the yard , as if their object were to separate many of them as completely as possible . |
| 3 | At the meeting , it was decided that County , the underwriters Dillon Read and Phillips & Drew would take some of the remaining shares and then sell them slowly over the next few weeks , a move which had been discussed with County 's lawyers beforehand . |
| 4 | I 've got several people helping me all over the area , and I watch three or four games on a Sunday myself . ’ |
| 5 | What are we doing Wednesday ? yes , we 'll have one there , and we 'll have one there , I 'm sticking them all over the place , but you 'll see what I mean . |
| 6 | Yes I have to carry them all over the place . |
| 7 | I 've gathered them slowly over the years , because they 're cruelly expensive . |
| 8 | I me , well you can never find anything if you got them all over the place ! |
| 9 | Two glasses of wine send me high over the rainbowed moon . |
| 10 | Their extra wide tyres cushion you perfectly over the roughest of roads and each bike has easy-to-use gears . |
| 11 | Like all the maidens , in all the stories , half seduced and half petrified , she consented to Fenna 's plans and he swept her high on his great wings and bore her away over the roofs of London and higher and higher cavorting and caracolling through the star-spun night . |
| 12 | All she succeeded in doing was knocking it farther over the slithering groundsheet . |
| 13 | He had turned to look at her , slipping off his coat as he did so and tossing it carelessly over the back of one of the armchairs . |
| 14 | The Evil One may not have come between us and God on a personal level , but as an army he has scattered us all over the place , dumped us unceremoniously in our little religious ghettoes and subcultures , and left us to our own devices . |
| 15 | Since she had been secretary to a bishop ( she learnt to type by trial and error ) , and also chauffeur to a bishop ( she learnt to drive by trial and error ) , she knew a lot of the clergy and their wives and had visited them all over the diocese , often in the black-out , and sat with the wives while the husbands talked to Bishop Owen , so she was good at remembering about them and their children and found the wives of the clergy to be fun . |
| 16 | I dare say that you too , Mr. Speaker , were inspired by all you saw , and of course you have visited them all over the years and have great experience of this subject . |
| 17 | ( He achieved a great feat of maritime engineering by building ships on the Atlantic shore , transporting them bodily over the hills he had explored and sailing them off into the Pacific . ) |
| 18 | Yeah , oh do n't tip them all over the table sweetheart |
| 19 | He lifted her easily over the bolster . |
| 20 | ‘ I had known David for quite a long time ; we come from Cambridge and I knew him vaguely in the early days — I remember when he joined the Floyd in fact — and I 'd seen him socially over the years . |
| 21 | Rush and Hughes have done it all over the years . |
| 22 | right , tie it off in a reef knot , if you 've got bits that are left dangling they 're too long and you ca n't go round again because it 's gon na make it too tight , you can either tuck them in or else you can fold them down , a nice clean plaster and put it right over the top , okay ? |
| 23 | Who 's had spaghetti and put it all over the floor ? . |
| 24 | I must admit , I think it had been better if they 'd moved it all over the weekend and then just put it straight again on the Monday , that would be . |
| 25 | I do n't know whether this will be acceptable to Policy and Resources Committee or the Council at the end of the day , but essentially what is showing there is something that , taken over the three years meets er , a figure equivalent to the annual but it does n't do it uniformly over the three years . |
| 26 | Boswell had by now made it plain over a number of years that he wished to write Johnson 's Life . |
| 27 | ‘ And a holiday abroad each year to make up for not seeing you much over the past while ! ’ |
| 28 | There was even a smudgy photograph , apparently taken at a party , which showed them together over the canapes . |
| 29 | As I work in the Middle East , I usually only have a short space of time while I 'm home to sort out my musical needs and Colin from my local store , Heads Hands and Feet , has helped me tremendously over the years . |
| 30 | He had grabbed hold of Cliff and had him halfway over the ship 's side and would have dumped him into the dock had he not been restrained by a couple of his workmates . |