Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | A light touch and not even a mouse could have scuttled through that ballroom without setting off the alarm all over the house — and the city . |
| 2 | He grabbed it and held it before his face and in doing so spilled most of the powder all over the front of his fancy tweed jacket . |
| 3 | To most westerners it may appear as a mere decorative embellishment reflecting the ubiquitous presence of the Cobra all over India , or possessing some remote significance in terms of local superstition or religious belief . |
| 4 | Once the beer can had been invented , that is evolved , in one place , it was inevitable that it would eventually take the place of the bottle all over the world , though the process is still going on . |
| 5 | This month I 'd like to take the opportunity to look back at the current series of articles featuring the Pentatonic scale , taking stock of our command of the scale all over the fretboard . |
| 6 | Once you have made your guess place the template with the centre of the hole directly over the point you have guessed . |
| 7 | If I did n't think you 'd go blabbing your side of the story all over town , I 'd have you out of my house in two shakes . ’ |
| 8 | Without these provisions , the collapse of the structure perhaps over a much wider area must be anticipated . |
| 9 | I would now ask for very small helpings , eat perhaps a mouthful , and then smear the rest of the food all over the plate , hiding the residue underneath an upturned fork . |
| 10 | Unless we start pasting bits of the script all over the set . |
| 11 | The RAF and the Army vie with each other fairly closely with an average of 18.3 per cent and 17.0 per cent of the vote respectively over the 24-year period . |
| 12 | She erm lived in a rented room in a settlement house in New York and she really provided the , the energy of the movement all over the country . |
| 13 | Together they support multiple authors working on different aspects of an application simultaneously over a network . |
| 14 | E.g. it is reasonable to expect all pipes and tanks in an attic to be lagged ; when a property is to be unoccupied for a period particularly over the winter months , all water tanks , pipes , etc should be drained and adequate heating provided . |
| 15 | The smoke had cleared , revealing at least half the school lined up in rows and Miss Hardbroom still in the same position , with the bucket neatly over her head . |
| 16 | They can then be placed in a bowl or aquarium with the water just over the surface of the compost . |
| 17 | It hit the green and finished down in the rough with the flag just over a little rise ( he was down in Duncan 's Hollow ) . |
| 18 | ‘ I have brought you a brandy , ’ he added when she just sat there with the towel completely over her head . |
| 19 | Are they going to be erm falling into the sea gradually over the coming years ? |
| 20 | Digging up the road all over the place . |
| 21 | The story of some of these presses is a fascinating one to follow , as the printers surreptitiously pull off their pamphlets and broadsides in some kitchen or remote country house , load up and press on to the next location , with an eye ever over their shoulder for the pursuers . |
| 22 | I think if you have mainly pain in there it 's much more likely to be a little bit of inflammation under the this tendon which goes from the muscle here over the top of the kneecap and attaches in there . |
| 23 | In other ways , too , the early nineteen thirties marked a period of hesitancy and some pessimism within the District both over its future growth and even its survival . |
| 24 | But when her muzzle was dunked in the water almost over her nostrils , the temptation became too much . |
| 25 | FURY erupted in a border town in the Republic yesterday over a sentence imposed on a hit-and-run driver from Ulster who left a young Gaelic footballer dying on a country road . |
| 26 | RoC , the French hypoallergenic skin care company one of those in the news lately over controversial ingredients in one of its products has launched a national network of RoC Pure Beauty Centres to provide expert advice on skincare . |
| 27 | During the last week of the month Olivia and I had gone to stay outside Delhi , in a fort just over the Rajasthani border . |
| 28 | Nor , in an edition now over go years old , is it surprising that the editor omits ornaments and grace-notes ( in bars 1 and 6 ) or assumes Rameau 's string layout to involve divided violins rather than divided violas . |
| 29 | Many reunions of the men who flew to the airfield all over East Anglia , but yesterday saw the biggest ever get-together of combat airmen in Britain . |
| 30 | The problem can be equated to the situation today over natural products . |