Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there is an increased tendency for disputes to drag on over weeks and months . |
| 2 | However , there is an increased tendency for disputes to drag on over weeks and months . |
| 3 | The complexities proved to be even greater than expected , particularly since the rate of claim for compensation increased considerably over the years up to the setting up of the committee . |
| 4 | The black cloak of hair streamed now over her hips and legs . |
| 5 | She held her breath at the look of tenderness spreading slowly over Lucenzo 's face . |
| 6 | A large dispenser of detergent , an old flex microphone as big as a taper , a polythene bag of tubular bandages , a sealant gun and a box of raisins fell all over his feet . |
| 7 | His room 's a dustbin with lists of objects pinned all over the walls — no , I do n't know what it means . |
| 8 | With the enclosure of the open fields and the redistribution of the land mostly in compact blocks instead of strips scattered all over the parish , one would have expected the old open-field village to disintegrate as the village farmers built new farmsteads on their allotments . |
| 9 | Cut to shot of stuntman falling backwards over rail to the floor . |
| 10 | Next door was a parchment maker , who had one corporal billeted on him , but we also know that 2 soldiers died in his house , and so it 's possible that he actually looked after wounded soldiers , which was , of course happening all over Oxford . |
| 11 | To test this particular application of Procedure Audit , a monitoring process was established in a section of thirty persons , and the administrative assistant briefed to record the number of queries referred back over a period of two months . |
| 12 | Its houses , shop , pub and post office were built on a narrow shelf of rock looking out over Start Bay , and it had a population of more than a hundred people . |
| 13 | And there was plenty of crap strewn all over the pavement , so he had to be more careful . |
| 14 | The nun was screaming now at the top of her voice ; then for a moment she became still and silent as she looked at a trickle of blood flowing down over her fingers ; and she now screeched again . |
| 15 | The Dorset , Devon and Cornwall holiday areas benefited from the good summer weather and from the upgrading of pubs carried out over the last few years . |
| 16 | When we reached our hotel and unlocked a suitcase we had kept , we thought , rigidly fastened back in Devon , we were mortified to find mountains of confetti cascading all over the floor . |
| 17 | We used to have a family of martins nesting directly over our front porch , just under my bedroom window . |
| 18 | Last but by no means least , the Human Rights Sub-Committee under the chairmanship of has done an enormous amount of work on behalf of lawyers in countries where the rule of law remains somewhere over the rainbow . |
| 19 | Hundreds of trials followed all over the land in the wake of Chelmsford . |
| 20 | Bloody Hitler and his crew of cut-throats tramping all over Europe . |
| 21 | The ghost of Shostakovich hangs heavily over the Cello Concerto , although the Sixth Symphony , with its barrenpointed landscapes clearly points more in the direction of Kancheli . |
| 22 | He produced two large atlases of estate maps ; the Stowe Atlas of thirty-three manuscript maps on vellum , detailing estates owned by the Grenville family around Kilkhampton , and the Lanhydrock Atlas of four large volumes containing 258 manuscript maps on vellum , compiled between 1694 and 1699 , of properties scattered widely over the county belonging to the Robartes family . |
| 23 | piece of metal put up over the entrance to the compost plant please . |
| 24 | And , just as the fine-needle spray of water flowed down over her shaking figure , so all sense and caution drained away from her dazed mind . |
| 25 | I 've g I 've got about a half a dozen sheets of paper scattered all over the place , and I 've decided to do it in this cos then I can just go to here . |
| 26 | We have a list of murders stretching back over the last two centuries for which you are responsible . ’ |
| 27 | There are quite a lot of other bits and bobs floating about , asteroids , meteors , little bits of chunks flying all over the place . |
| 28 | The cache system survives , and I 've even added a couple of petrol bombs to one or two of the secret stores , where a likely avenue of attack comes in over terrain the bottles would smash on , but the trip-wires I 've dismantled and left in the shed . |
| 29 | As a child I made these , covering the kitchen in ingredients and allowing balls of mixture to roll all over the place , only to be found six months later behind the toaster . |
| 30 | we 've done very well for escaping it , the only trouble is we have n't got the rain and now , this , this coming summer I dread to think what 's gon na happen , look how dry those fields are , just look at it if we get a wind up , if we , a wind starts to blow it 'll move a lot of this , it will just lift it up into the air , we 'll get clouds of soil blowing all over the place . |