Example sentences of "it [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I do n't know whether this will be acceptable to Policy and Resources Committee or the Council at the end of the day , but essentially what is showing there is something that , taken over the three years meets er , a figure equivalent to the annual but it does n't do it uniformly over the three years . |
2 | Perhaps it was her own pride reawakening after all these weeks which prompted her to defy Luke 's distaste , albeit only after she was sure he was asleep , moving up close to his back again , lifting an arm and curving it loosely over the side of his body . |
3 | He took up a cloth by the side of the cash register and started to move it slowly over the surface , looking up just once as I left the shop , saying , ‘ Goodbye , then . ’ |
4 | right , tie it off in a reef knot , if you 've got bits that are left dangling they 're too long and you ca n't go round again because it 's gon na make it too tight , you can either tuck them in or else you can fold them down , a nice clean plaster and put it right over the top , okay ? |
5 | yeah , I could n't believe it I mean you go back five years he 'd never done things like that , he erm , missed the most easiest reds and left it right over the pocket and then Stephen Hendry went on and cleared up the whole frame , got a break of over a hundred |
6 | He lifted the edge of the hood , and laid it gently over the shattered head , hiding the face . |
7 | Any sort of boat could have been used to ferry a body to midstream and to put it gently over the side in darkness . |
8 | Max said there 'd have been buckets of blood , and if someone 's going to get it all over a suit , or a dress … |
9 | Rush and Hughes have done it all over the years . |
10 | I hit it all over the place . |
11 | Lord Mountbatten had spent ten years tirelessly promoting the dream , talking about it all over the world , often in the highest places , inspiring everyone around him and shamelessly raising money to build more colleges . |
12 | They drop it all over the place . |
13 | That way , they will search for it all over the universe before discovering it . ’ |
14 | Some nosey guy from a yellow sheet would find out who the mysterious Mrs. X was in a blackmail case , and smear it all over the front . |
15 | I imagined what would happen if I should tear the sleeves out , or cut it up , or run to the kitchen for the tomato-ketchup and pour it all over the bodice ; if I should rip out the collar with my teeth . |
16 | You find it all over the tropics , especially in sandy places . |
17 | I mean in , in he did n't leave it all over the yard and all that you know . |
18 | Everybody could hear it all over the factory . |
19 | Rather than having the police putting their big feet in it all over the place . ’ |
20 | Having coined and rehearsed the right phrases he never saw any reason why he should not use them several times , so he concluded , ‘ We do n't , I take it , want the police putting their big feet in it all over the place . ’ |
21 | You know how a man can say nothing and you hear it all over the house for weeks ? |
22 | I ca n't walk around with a costume full of water and not spill it all over the carpeting … ’ |
23 | They went to Waldegrave 's chamber and smeared it all over the tunic of our comatose priest . |
24 | His name was Benjamin Bucknall and he was an enthusiast about stone and that was apparent by his use of it all over the building . |
25 | The distress caused by a horse being stolen , I 'd have it all over the its body if it stopped them being stolen . |
26 | He plans to release it all over the Far East as well as Britain , and said : ‘ It will sell like hot cakes . ’ |
27 | Thought we 'd dig it all up and move move it all over the place wo n't we ? |
28 | Now bring it all over the left hand side and we 'll get B to the plus sixteen B square , minus two , two , five equals what ? |
29 | Do n't do it in one , it does it all over the floor |
30 | boiled it all over the place . |