Example sentences of "of [noun] [adv] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the sultry haze of late August , the only noises were the cicadas , the splash of the children in the pool and the rumble of thunder away over the Gorges du Verdon . |
| 2 | What a growing part of agriculture all over the world had in common was subjection to the industrial world economy . |
| 3 | The station has broadcast a couple of times legally over the past year . |
| 4 | You must have had hundreds of mistresses all over the world — ’ |
| 5 | You keep meeting the same people in a sector of industry all over the world . ’ |
| 6 | Piles of books all over the floor : Agatha Christie , Dick Francis , P. D. James . |
| 7 | Perhaps you have shelves full of books all over the house . |
| 8 | After I had left her she had spilt her cup of tea all over the bedclothes , which had soon become not only wet but cold and wet . |
| 9 | Lyddy put the final touches to her hair and slipped two ropes of pearls carefully over the finished edifice . |
| 10 | If you ask me , it looks like a load of picture of heads all over the bloody place ! |
| 11 | It ploughed into the ground scattering debris and bits of aluminium all over the place . |
| 12 | the following morning I went out no numberplate and there were bits of car all over the street but |
| 13 | the surface of light just over the border . |
| 14 | Instead of hunting all over the sky , the pilots concentrated on one scatter of targets and spiralled down through them , turning tightly in order to cut down the risk of collision . |
| 15 | With friends , and sometimes with sister Dannii , Kylie , like millions of youngsters all over the world , acted out her fantasies of pop stardom in front of her bedroom mirror . |
| 16 | Paul took this message about life and the mystery of humanity all over the Mediterranean world . |
| 17 | the nationalists do n't have so much of hold now over the south . |
| 18 | The two Chelonians he had seen earlier were strapped into padded harnesses that suspended their front set of limbs conveniently over the main instrument panel . |
| 19 | To me there are prototypes of Alf all over the country : far too many of them in fact . |
| 20 | When the Prime Minister said in Blackpool recently that the trendy liberals in education ’ have had their say and had their day ’ hundreds of thousands of parents all over the country let out a huge sigh of relief . |
| 21 | Across the little Livre valley the vines grown on the east and south-east-facing slopes of Mont Écouvé , at a height of between 150 and 170 metres , are an extension to those of Bouzy just over the hill . |
| 22 | A tiny creature which cuts a tracery of lines all over the surface of floating foliage . |
| 23 | Suddenly , as we were about fifty yards from that lovely smell of coffee , there was an almighty roar as the barn blew up , scattering burning straw and all kinds of debris all over the farm area . |
| 24 | The worship of , or professed belief in , a god of some kind is to be found in varying degrees of sincerity all over the world . |
| 25 | But finally the itching was too much for him and we got up one morning to find plaster of Paris and remnants of bandage all over the carpet where he had irritably scissored it off at two in the morning . |
| 26 | The day had got off to a bad start as it was ( late for work , lost the shop key , spilt a load of fish-food all over the floor and then cracked my head on a shelf while clearing it up ) . |
| 27 | Does my hon. Friend agree that many leaders of local industry are giving their time and experience to ensure the great success of TECs all over the United Kingdom and that it is imperative that we , the Government , ensure that they are properly funded ? |
| 28 | Not only can we use the considerable buying power of Guinness to get the best prices , but we can use our knowledge of suppliers all over the world to ensure the highest quality product . |
| 29 | Much of the syllabus has become part of the training of dancers all over the world . |
| 30 | Our task today is to increase the international pressure on behalf of the thousands of prisoners of conscience all over the world , to make tomorrow the day their freedom is restored . |