Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Such things are happening all over the country . |
| 3 | It is hardly possible to drive through the village and people have been climbing all over the wreck . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Product differentiation and improvement has been occurring steadily over the years and now includes metal and wooden window frames , doors , storage tanks , household furniture , beds , as well as a much improved range of braziers , and tin trunks . |
| 6 | The stolen cars have been occurring now over the last year . |
| 7 | What had been happening financially over the last five or six years is unclear but in 1932 the situation was regarded as ‘ serious ’ and it was to continue so ( as with other Clubs in the Depression ) until the late 1930's . |
| 8 | It 's been happening all over the world for quite some time . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But what has been happening in Darlington has been happening all over the country , this has been a national problem . ’ |
| 10 | In parenthesis I should say that I am passing quickly over the significance of these four levels of understanding . |
| 11 | ( Because they are stumbling backwards over a precipitation of hasty , inside-out clothes , say . ) |
| 12 | One ca n't actually separate them , although you will try to , from all the other rules and regulations we are passing all over the place . |
| 13 | He 's making sofas which he calls driving seats … and they 're selling all over the world . |
| 14 | A car enthusiast has found a new way of making money out of Minis … he 's turning them into furniture.He 's making sofas which he calls driving seats … and they 're selling all over the world.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 15 | There 's no point in estimating a model if in reality those coefficients are not fixed , they 're jumping all over the place . |
| 16 | At the same time levels of public expenditure on the railways have been declining steadily over the past few years in the run-up to an expected privatisation and are now well below those of Britain 's Continental neighbours . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm 21 years old , here I am going all over the world , and people actually give a shit what I think about things . |
| 18 | At the same time I think some people are going well over the top in slagging off Wilko . |
| 19 | ‘ And we are going all over the place . |
| 20 | Levels of nitrates in tap water had been rising slowly over the past decade , most of it leaching into groundwater from farmers fields , where it 's used as a fertilizer . |
| 21 | Both the assets and the liabilities of the personal sector have been rising rapidly over the past ten years . |
| 22 | Wellcome shares have been performing strongly over the past year and the value of the company has almost doubled . |
| 23 | Louise had hardly been out of his thoughts for a moment during the past six weeks while the relieving force , under the command of General Sinclair , had been advancing circumspectly over the plains . |
| 24 | I 'm not suggesting the U.K. has been doing marvellously over the past 40 years ( compared to many other nations it has n't ) but compared to the U.S. it 's done very well indeed . |
| 25 | Anyway , pretty soon half the law in town are crawling all over the street . |
| 26 | He is one of the less famous victims among the tens of thousands of small businessmen who are suffering all over the land as a Tory dream turns into a nightmare . |
| 27 | Any more raids and you 'll be stepping well over the line . |
| 28 | Miss Clinton had taken it away with the wheel still loose and would soon be driving northward over a narrow moorland road that a few miles beyond the road-bridge over the river wound along the shelf of a mountain with a sheer , dizzy drop on one side . |
| 29 | And he 'd be walking all over the place seen anywhere , Tommy on the wall and they 'd shout Tommy on the wall |
| 30 | People must be hunting all over the country for him . |