Example sentences of "of the [noun] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | He grabbed it and held it before his face and in doing so spilled most of the powder all over the front of his fancy tweed jacket . |
| 2 | To most westerners it may appear as a mere decorative embellishment reflecting the ubiquitous presence of the Cobra all over India , or possessing some remote significance in terms of local superstition or religious belief . |
| 3 | Once the beer can had been invented , that is evolved , in one place , it was inevitable that it would eventually take the place of the bottle all over the world , though the process is still going on . |
| 4 | This month I 'd like to take the opportunity to look back at the current series of articles featuring the Pentatonic scale , taking stock of our command of the scale all over the fretboard . |
| 5 | Once you have made your guess place the template with the centre of the hole directly over the point you have guessed . |
| 6 | If I did n't think you 'd go blabbing your side of the story all over town , I 'd have you out of my house in two shakes . ’ |
| 7 | Without these provisions , the collapse of the structure perhaps over a much wider area must be anticipated . |
| 8 | I would now ask for very small helpings , eat perhaps a mouthful , and then smear the rest of the food all over the plate , hiding the residue underneath an upturned fork . |
| 9 | Unless we start pasting bits of the script all over the set . |
| 10 | social choice over a set of alternatives must depend on the orderings of the individuals only over these alternatives and not on ‘ irrelevant alternatives ’ ; |
| 11 | The cathedral of York Minster became the centre from which the rich and powerful Archbishops of York helped to control the lives of the people all over northern England . |
| 12 | erm , and a lot of them training , but unless you can actually erm , increase their confidence , and that is the attitude of the people all over the place . |
| 13 | The RAF and the Army vie with each other fairly closely with an average of 18.3 per cent and 17.0 per cent of the vote respectively over the 24-year period . |
| 14 | Like many of the gentry all over the country , he was convinced that the wound now bleeding Christendom might yet be healed , and the Church , the Body of Christ , made whole ; so when he gave sanctuary to young men on their way to train as priests in France , or secret agents from Spain or Ireland , he did so believing that he was acting in the best interests of his country , claiming that if anyone was a traitor it was the ardent puritans like Walsingham and Drake , who by their political manoeuvrings and piratical attacks on Spanish merchantmen were pushing the Queen remorselessly into a confrontation with King Philip of Spain . |
| 15 | She erm lived in a rented room in a settlement house in New York and she really provided the , the energy of the movement all over the country . |