Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some reason quite beyond Harry 's comprehension , somebody had been thrown from a window in Prague in the year of grace 1618 and this had provoked thirty years of bloody conflict all over Europe . |
| 2 | It is the day when Rainbows , Brownies , Guides and Rangers think of each other all over the world . |
| 3 | Cos I see him know with this big pallets of that stuff all over the place and |
| 4 | Dr P was asked what effect the growth of English literature all over the world , and the advent of modern literary criticism , had had on English teaching in universities : |
| 5 | I saw lots of British people all over the stadium , waving huge Union Jacks . |
| 6 | There was a glorious sunset rush of pure-blooded warmth all over her back and right down to her fingertips . |
| 7 | The result was that all one could see was dozens and dozens of blinking lights all over the sky . |
| 8 | I also kept in touch with the Navy by accepting , every October , invitations from a variety of naval establishments all over the country to propose the toast of the Immortal Memory of Lord Nelson at their Trafalgar Night dinners . |
| 9 | Ever since I can remember there have been little stickers of white paper all over the house with neat black-biro writing on them . |
| 10 | But there must be hundreds of little firms all over the country who still use it for special jobs . " |
| 11 | make them like swimming hats with lots of little flowers all over them |
| 12 | This is because the UK would have to contribute £39 000 a year to a fund to help protect natural and cultural sites of international importance all over the world . |
| 13 | well he likes marshal art do n't he ? we wo n't tell daddy that you knocked a full on the table of black currant all over the carpet will we ? |
| 14 | So too does his sometime-sidekick on this journey : a ‘ Soverican ’ jazz drummer-cum-taxidriver named Sasha Zim who is besotted with the unhinged madness of New York and proclaims from the outset that ‘ Broadway is mother of all Broadways all over the world , mother of lights of Picadilly Circus and of Place Pigalle and Teatralny Ploschtchad . |
| 15 | In exactly the same way , too many people are looking into the mind of the homosexual rather than considering the repugnance that is caused to millions of decent people all over the country … . |
| 16 | It 's positioned under the usual plates , ( with flat plate uppermost ) and the outflow from the tank hits the rotating bar , sending a spray of oxygenated water all over the media . |
| 17 | Untold damage was done , alas , to the look of older streets all over the country by the removal of iron railings . |
| 18 | At this time there was evidence of increasing irritation locally over what was seen as interference by central government . |
| 19 | Bring back the express so , it does n't sort of highlight it , because they do n't have tiers of borrowed storage all over the place . |
| 20 | His target was ‘ the spate of mean building all over the country that is shrivelling up the Old England — mean and perky little houses that surely none but mean and perky little souls should inhabit with satisfaction ’ ( p. 15 ) . |
| 21 | Money was moved out of small banks all over the world . |
| 22 | A great deal of expertise has been built up over the years in the shipment of petrochemical cargoes all over the world , often in custom-built vessels . |
| 23 | His other interest , ethnographical collections , grew through his support of Czech travellers all over the world . |
| 24 | I 'm not sure about that but I am sure that the relative strength of a South African side is the subject of heated debate all over the rugby world and , depending on who you speak to , the ‘ Boks are either the true World Champions or a collection of dinosaurs , hopelessly out of touch with the modern game and in for a rude awakening . |
| 25 | When the shift of emphasis from moral to liturgical kingship came , it must be seen in the changing political context of ninth- and tenth-century Europe , and the emergence of new dynasties all over the once-unified empire of Charlemagne ; one of their principal qualifications to rule was their capacity to defeat external enemies . |
| 26 | I emphaasise that those figures are all random , and they show that hundreds of young people all over the country are denied a job or a YT place . |
| 27 | His death was supposed to have been messy , and there was a lot of realistic blood all over his costume . |