Example sentences of "[verb] [vb base] [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The visible stars appear spread all over the night sky , but are particularly concentrated in one band , which we call the Milky Way . |
| 2 | He reached up for the handle , grasped it , tried to turn it once , failed , tried again and this time dropped face down over the threshold as the door swung open . |
| 3 | Geographically , operators can be found spread all over the globe , but the so-called Third World , especially the Caribbean and Alaska are the prime areas of the activity . |
| 4 | And I saw come just over the top of the doors as well . |
| 5 | Just as he will not tolerate questions about his private life , so he will also go ballistic if bureacrats attempt to meddle in his creative decisions — something which Pierre Berge ( the chairman of Yves Saint Laurent ) found out when he became superintendent of Paris 's opera houses in 1988 and attempted to take Barenboim on over the conductor 's directorship of the new Opera-Bastille . |
| 6 | On a wet winter 's day when the sea is at its roughest , the sight of the waves pounding against the bottom of the cliffs , throwing spray up over the top and into the fields , is breathtaking . |