Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do most of the damage , knocking on doors , daub writing all over the place . |
| 2 | The visible stars appear spread all over the night sky , but are particularly concentrated in one band , which we call the Milky Way . |
| 3 | Using a small palette knife , spread icing all over the cake . |
| 4 | You can imagine that some drivers er went the wrong way , and it was just that they , they just did n't concentrate on the run but nowadays they seem to run all over the town . |
| 5 | ‘ When I do go out somewhere special I like to go completely over the top in the glamour stakes — different hairdo , glittery accessories and high heels ’ |
| 6 | The effect on wading birds has been dramatic , with numbers of lapwing , curlew , redshank , godwit and snipe falling dramatically over the past 10 years alone . |
| 7 | Well we try to span right over the range of science . |
| 8 | Even this did not make Donald crane his neck forward and start retching all over the table . |
| 9 | Liz Clifton the gallery organiser says the work is very skilled and they 've looked all over the country to find things . |
| 10 | Thousands of Poles settled here after the last war , but they 've worked hard over the years to keep in touch with their cultural roots . |
| 11 | You 've conducted all over the world , including one place in India where you told the orchestra to play forte throughout in order to defeat the noise of the air-conditioning , the Vatican , and the great open-air theatre at Epidaurus in Greece . |
| 12 | And erm I think they 've been I think they 've changed really over the months I think all of us have as well and erm well that 's how it started anyway . |
| 13 | The great problem we face is that obviously the authorities in South Africa do n't want the picture to be made , and we 're shooting it in Zimbabwe , where we 've been made very welcome , and erm the difficulties is the creation of South Africa in Zimbabwe , which means you have to go all over the place . |
| 14 | When further broken down , the figures for public institutions are somewhat sobering , since educational libraries represent only 9% of publishers ' total sales , and public libraries a mere 5% — and these contributions as a percentage of the total have fallen steadily over the past five years , due to wide-ranging public spending cuts in this period . |
| 15 | Distinct approaches to data analysis in Britain and France have developed independently over the last 10 years . |
| 16 | And thousands have sped all over the world . |
| 17 | However trends in the activity rates of men and women have differed significantly over the last 15 years . |
| 18 | I have looked carefully over a period of weeks at those applications , and have reached the view that they deserve to be granted . |
| 19 | Now speaking to you , as chairman of the G M B parliamentary group I can tell you that we have met twice over the last few weeks on this issue of modernization and we are agreed on the need to avoid a damaging public row from which everybody yes including the unions , will lose . |
| 20 | Few have done more over the years to encourage and inspire the growth and development of tennis by putting it on as professional footing as possible . |
| 21 | Fewer than 1 in 5 of the men in our sample has confined his sexual experience to a single partner , though two-thirds of them have done so over the last 12 months . |
| 22 | Mr Deputy Speaker I 'm just about to come on the South Wales police but I will answer the point directly , er I and my honourable friend the parliamentary secretary are always willing to discuss with local government , matters relating to local government finance and we have done so over the months leading up to this settlement and my honourable and right honourable friends in the Home Office are always willing to discuss matters on the police er where they are important and warrant a ministerial meeting and that again has happened recently with the Home Office min minister discussing this very issue . |
| 23 | Then through the use of secondary picketing , frequently associated with intimidation and physical violence ( such as we have seen repeatedly over the past decade in connection with the miners ' strikes , the Shrewsbury incidents , Grunwick , the lorry drivers ' strike ) , unions become a threat to personal freedom . |
| 24 | I have seen frequently over the last year and I have been very grateful for her friendship , not to mention the clothes she has lent me which her daughter has outgrown . |
| 25 | According to Durex , whose condoms account for 80% of the British market , purchases made by women have risen steadily over the past 10 years . |
| 26 | This means that prices have risen considerably over the past few months — a very good reason for looking at alternatives to champagne . |
| 27 | Similarly , in the 1980 greater attention from both professionals in the field of child care and the media has increased our awareness of child sexual abuse , and the numbers of reported cases have grown considerably over the past decade . |
| 28 | Such courses which may relate to graphic design , fashion/textile design , interior design , and product design are usually of similar duration to those leading to CNAA degrees , that is three years full-time , and the numbers taking them have grown gradually over the years . |
| 29 | ‘ We have expanded rapidly over the past few years and have now outgrown our existing factory , ’ said David Gray , chairman and managing director of the Saltofix Group . |
| 30 | We have celebrated all over the world — in the Diaspora outside Palestine , and inside Palestine too , in the Yishuv itself . |