Example sentences of "of [noun] [adv] over " 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 | And the worst thing you can do is to screw it all up by putting a lot of technique all over it ! ' |
| 4 | ‘ During the spring Cry hopes to gather many thousands of signatures all over real Yorkshire in order to convince the Local Government Commission that Yorkshire people wish to see their county made whole again , ’ he said . |
| 5 | The station has broadcast a couple of times legally over the past year . |
| 6 | Now this situation is multiplied thousands of times all over Scotland ! |
| 7 | You must have had hundreds of mistresses all over the world — ’ |
| 8 | You keep meeting the same people in a sector of industry all over the world . ’ |
| 9 | Piles of books all over the floor : Agatha Christie , Dick Francis , P. D. James . |
| 10 | Perhaps you have shelves full of books all over the house . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Lyddy put the final touches to her hair and slipped two ropes of pearls carefully over the finished edifice . |
| 13 | If you ask me , it looks like a load of picture of heads all over the bloody place ! |
| 14 | It ploughed into the ground scattering debris and bits of aluminium all over the place . |
| 15 | the following morning I went out no numberplate and there were bits of car all over the street but |
| 16 | the surface of light just over the border . |
| 17 | A beautiful silver starfish , with points of light all over its body , sapphire and rose-pink and silver . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Paul took this message about life and the mystery of humanity all over the Mediterranean world . |
| 21 | the nationalists do n't have so much of hold now over the south . |
| 22 | LEADING Tory John Gummer quit the Church of England yesterday over its move to bring in women priests . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | To me there are prototypes of Alf all over the country : far too many of them in fact . |
| 25 | ‘ Maybe he 's a real-estate developer who 's planning a row of condos right over there where the volleyball net is , ’ Charity suggested uncharitably . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Now four English teenagers are dead following a canoeing accident off the Dorset coast , intensifying the concerns of parents all over Britain as they watch their children set off with their mates , while wondering what the chances are that something might go horribly wrong . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | A The use of sand directly over a sub gravel filter is not recommended . |
| 30 | A tiny creature which cuts a tracery of lines all over the surface of floating foliage . |