Example sentences of "[verb] on [adv] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I presume this sort of thing goes on all over the country ? ’ |
| 2 | For some time all three moved on quietly over the grass , while the shadows grew stronger and the wood-pigeons clattered among the distant trees . |
| 3 | Lights came on all over the Ship . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's funny to sit here in the warm sunshine , and think of all that going on here over the centuries . ’ |
| 5 | There was so much going on all over the mission , more often than not organized by the people themselves . |
| 6 | Research on methods for controlling pests without chemicals is going on all over the world and the latest greenfly predator to come under scientific scrutiny is the lacewing . |
| 7 | Then she noticed the lights going on all over the school but thought no more about it . |
| 8 | However , it 's much quicker and easier to use an all-in-one paint like Hammerite which you brush on straight over the rust . |
| 9 | Another hotly contested tournament was the Copa de Republic , a vast knock-out competition which went on all over the country from November to April . |
| 10 | My Lord the er case moves on there over the page now to the twenty fourth of September and on that day Mr was notified erm by his bank on the telephone that head office had approved the finance proposal in principal and as a result of that Mr then telephone Peter , the defendant , told him that the financing for this deal had been approved in principal and Mr asked Mr to provide a bankers draft of some seven and a half thousand pounds in order to enable exchange to take place as a matter of urgency . |