Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arty was still asleep , one arm hanging loosely over the side . |
| 2 | We turned the light on The room was full of funny little animals whizzing all over the floor . |
| 3 | You just shot up , whizzing all over the place , erratic but really zooming , and that partly compensated for any lack of technique . |
| 4 | Black rain clouds were scudding in over the Thames . |
| 5 | We drank the tea squatting in the shade , gazing down over the desert and the river valley . |
| 6 | If he heard anything he would not dream of doing anything about it but would go on gazing indifferently over the heads of his sheep . |
| 7 | In London the Shahs ambassador , Parviz Radji , who had been inter alia , the lover of Princes Ashraf , has been agonizing daily over the turn that is country had taken , the corruption of the court of which he was apart , and the inglorious way in which it has now all collapsed . |
| 8 | And what 's more , everyone 's apologising all over the place except for one vile journalist who says it 's possible a misguided vigilante thought getting rid of Harry the only path to real justice , and I want Harry to sue him , it 's truly vicious . ’ |
| 9 | Nearly all rack effects have their connectors at the back and I find it looks very untidy having cables hanging all over the front of an amp . |
| 10 | At the end of the evening , an African headmaster commented , ‘ If we can multiply this kind of gathering all over the country , our political differences will vanish . ’ |
| 11 | Still in his underclothes , Ebenezer lay sprawled across the bed , his head hanging down over the side , his one hand clawing at his throat . |
| 12 | Suddenly Gazzer appeared , climbing wearily over the top of a sand dune . |
| 13 | And he 'd be walking all over the place seen anywhere , Tommy on the wall and they 'd shout Tommy on the wall |
| 14 | He was used to walking all over the city , as if searching , as if dedicated to the act of searching , every single day ; and now he came to The Bar every single night , and did his searching there . |
| 15 | Walking all over the grass that I have n't cut yet . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , that makes sense , but if it means takin' the engine out and havin' engineers crawlin' all over the place so we ca n't get on with the job of takin' on stores and equipment — ’ |
| 17 | Would you have her dragged up by a succession of au pairs and housekeepers while you went gallivanting all over the world ? |
| 18 | ( Do this by pencilling over the side of the paper , turning it over on to the icing and then pressing gently over the lines again . ) |
| 19 | Or you can simply sabotage the thing by coughing loudly and exploding all over the place and then of course they simply ca n't use it . |
| 20 | Caspar had gone mad , leaping all over the beet and sending it rolling . |
| 21 | There 's no way that a farrier can shoe a horse that is so angry or frightened that it is rearing and leaping all over the place . |
| 22 | And er the amount of money that 's in the appeal fund , whereas it shows a great feeling of warmth from the general public , I think I do n't I mean there 's people dying all over the world , even at home here in Orkney , there 's people that dying , they do n't receive any great compensation for that . |
| 23 | And most of us have a general sense that things are pretty gloomy for people in the Third World : we might remember that Sudanese women must walk hours in search of firewood , that Brazilian peasants are still going hungry , that children are dying all over the world of something as simple and easily treatable as diarrhoea . |
| 24 | Although Shaker has become fashionable and ‘ Shaker style ’ furniture is appearing all over the place , very little of it bears much relation to the real thing . |
| 25 | Her heart felt amazingly light , and she knew it was because of Tom and the way they were talking and laughing together over the morning 's task . |
| 26 | Each part of the company has been asked to look for ways of doing more , with less , and the performance improvements now happening all over the company are starting to feed through to the bottom line . |
| 27 | ‘ I hope that what is happening here is not happening all over the country . |
| 28 | Such things are happening all over the country . |
| 29 | That is happening all over the country and the tenants will be required to accept all the costs of repairs . |
| 30 | It 's happening all over the country — not just to me . |