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 | His massive figures appear to explode out over the frames . |
| 4 | Here I sit looking out over the sea , on this little rag of an island , Uskair . |
| 5 | Using a small palette knife , spread icing all over the cake . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Well we try to span right over the range of science . |
| 10 | Our classroom is one floor up and we saw Julius Rottwinkle go sailing out over the garden like a Frisbee and landing with a thump in the middle of the lettuces . |
| 11 | Even this did not make Donald crane his neck forward and start retching all over the table . |
| 12 | Liz Clifton the gallery organiser says the work is very skilled and they 've looked all over the country to find things . |
| 13 | There are cert certain categories of business that we 've built up over the year . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You know this sort of thing and all British wildlife has got its own little characters , every species is different er and you know thousands of animals we 've taken in over the years we 've just learnt different things about different animals that suit different animals . |
| 16 | I 've put on over a stone |
| 17 | Here , for the nostalgic or merely curious among you , is the complete list of all the stuff we 've put out over the years . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We have to go up over the fell . " |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Distinct approaches to data analysis in Britain and France have developed independently over the last 10 years . |
| 24 | And thousands have sped all over the world . |
| 25 | However trends in the activity rates of men and women have differed significantly over the last 15 years . |
| 26 | The clouds have dropped down over the mountain so that the evangelicals and charismatics on the first contour above the town have vanished into the mist . |
| 27 | I have looked carefully over a period of weeks at those applications , and have reached the view that they deserve to be granted . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |