Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirdly , our policy analysis and research team , takes responsibility for looking further ahead , and doing a lot of the initial thinking about both the challenges and the opportunities that will affect the sector domestically and internationally over the next few years . |
| 2 | The horse dentist will smooth the sharpness away by using a metal rasp which is rubber backwards and forwards over the teeth . |
| 3 | She was walking backwards and forwards over the makeshift stage shaking sand on to the boards from a small bucket , trying to evoke the desert sands of Saudi Arabia . |
| 4 | However , per capita food production in Africa has been declining slowly and steadily over the last few decades . |
| 5 | They flashed quickly and calculatingly over the assembled company before Charlie smiled . |
| 6 | Keep your wrists loose , elbows at right angles , and tap your fingertips quickly and rhythmically over the area . |
| 7 | When applying a varnish , the brush should be dipped into it for about one-third of the length of the bristles and then , holding the brush in a similar way to a pencil , with the fingers holding the metal ferrule and the handle resting between the thumb and first finger , spread the varnish quickly and evenly over a small area . |
| 8 | In general if an illness has appeared rapidly and vigorously over a matter of hours then one should look for a cause in the preceding few hours or day at the most . |
| 9 | It is much better to build up endurance levels gradually and gently over a period of weeks and months . |
| 10 | More and more over the last few years , however , findings both from his own lab and others have tended to enrich the somewhat simplistic reductionist framework within which the Aplysia findings had earlier been set . |
| 11 | He represented all the kids back home and all over the world . ’ |
| 12 | Spoon the mixture carefully and evenly over the topping . |
| 13 | This produces extraordinary scenes when traffic is heavy , with cars proceeding smoothly and quietly over the ramps , almost like a school of porpoises . |
| 14 | I ca n't do that bloody thing , it goes arsehole upwards and all over the place . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've got more snow up here and all over the Swiss Alps than we have had in 50 years , ’ said Dr Othmar Buser , whose research centre is perched at 2,660m on the Weissfluhjoch above Davos . |
| 16 | Clouds of little-crested parrots and rose-breasted cockatoos swarmed upon the woods that were dotted here and there over the grasslands . |
| 17 | Edberg moves gracefully and speedily over the grass in a way that would surely be the envy of a Torville and Dean . |
| 18 | Everywhere and all over the vault of heaven is a marvellous blue , and the sun sheds a radiance of pale sulphur , and it is soft and lovely as the combination of heavenly blues and yellows in a Van der Meer of Delft [ sic ] . |
| 19 | Another feat of walking was undertaken by Harry Baker , who having a brother in Hastings would , at the turn of the century , visit his brother walking there and back over a weekend . |
| 20 | ‘ That basic shape — the squarish shoulders and narrow hips — is one that I discovered , when I went through the files , keeps turning up again and again over the years . |
| 21 | In these circumstances , it is convenient for corporate officials to pull the cloak of honest ignorance over their heads and proceed under its darkness to stumble blindly and unwittingly over the thin line between what is condoned and what is condemned . |