Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Place the horses inside the stable holes , securing them with royal icing and positioning them so that their heads peep out over the doors . |
| 2 | Shortages vary somewhat over the country . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Migration followed the establishment of a world economic system : Indians spread all over the British Empire ; Chinese went to Singapore and Indonesia . |
| 8 | Rats run freely over the shrouded corpses which lie abandoned in the corridors . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The gardens look out over the Bay of Tremezzina , and all of the bedrooms have lovely lake views . |
| 11 | Miss Menzies felt certain it was in the garage at Mr Steen 's Orme Gardens house all over the weekend . |
| 12 | In the summer dusk the pale hatched moths float out over the riverside . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Wick waits , remembering the herring more recently ; the lovely old buildings stare blankly over the vast harbour once a forest of masts . |
| 15 | Fishermen scurry all over the seas catching anchovies ; quarrymen have long made a living scraping guano from the bird-rich islands . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He looked down at the scatter of handwritten pages spread all over the table , and tensed his body as though anticipating a blow . |
| 18 | Fox hounds get all over the place if you 're not careful . ’ |
| 19 | The headstock is gently raked back , and the strings pass directly over the nut to the Schaller machines . |
| 20 | c ) Viciousness. d ) Senile degeneration — owners differ tremendously over the point they consider a dog to be no longer ‘ enjoying life ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The mosaics extend continuously over the surface of the vaults and domes and illustrate the Story of the Creation , the Fall of Man , the Legends of the Saints and the Miracles of Christ . |
| 26 | A few of these dykes reach the surface ; when they do so , a fissure eruption takes place , and basalt lavas pour out over the surface . |
| 27 | do the many cables from the computers and printers trail all over the place , or are they safely hidden inside trunking ? |
| 28 | Central vent eruptions occur all over the world , on the mid-ocean ridge volcanoes , at destructive plate margins , and along the African rift valleys ; there is no particular environment which is specially favourable to them . |
| 29 | Treasures front all over the world . |
| 30 | He provided the link between the School and its past pupils , for he was the Membership Secretary of the Old Stopfordians ' Association , no easy task , with members spread all over the world . |