Example sentences of "went [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Mellor , as junior Home Office Minister , who was left by Mrs Thatcher to pick up the pieces when the last government went badly over the top in its determination to reshape television by deregulation , irrespective of quality . |
| 2 | Secret talks with the government , which went on over a period of more than a year , were also broken off . |
| 3 | They went on over a long period and affected many children who had been entrusted to the defendants for care and help . |
| 4 | The arrival of Islam and the Arabic language was to mark another of the great turning points in the history of Egypt , and their absorption by Egyptian society went on over a long period , being generally a peaceful and incremental process . |
| 5 | Work went on over the Summer Holiday of 1980 to ensure that the Convent buildings would be ready for the new term , when there would be girls in both the Sixth Form and the First Form . |
| 6 | I think this is one of the essentials in Harlow and something that people should not forget , that is that , although there is a great deal of criticism possibly of the standard of building that went on over the years of the Development Corporation , compared with what most people came from , there was a very great elevation both in quality and in ideas . |
| 7 | My job essentially was to introduce general management , and therefore I er , I was able to use many of the skills which I had acquired in I B M , but of course , I was also part of the Griffiths debate , here I 'm talking about Griffiths Two , not Griffiths One , I was implementing Griffiths One , which was general management , Griffiths Two was a community , the community debate , so I saw something , which I 'm certainly not allowed to quote , of the great debates that went on over the period of eighteen months before the eventual decision was made about community care . |
| 8 | Oh yes they did for , for the increase in traffic I mean that er that er went on over the years gradually creep , creep , creep on until the whole atmosphere of the place was er I do n't know improved should you say or not I do n't know whether it 's er well it certainly has n't improved but erm it changed , it was such a lovely little place really , and of course you could run across the road whenever you liked I mean we used to play in Street of picking out in a sweet shop window er a name be Cadbury 's or chocolate or something you 'd be standing across the road and you 'd be running backwards and forwards backwards and forwards , there was no sign of anyone getting run over cos there was nothing about , and when I was a kid going to the Bluecoat School I 'd run across that bridge every morning without looking right or left , because if anything had hit me , well nothing used to be coming you could see a tram coming but oh there was nothing else at that time in the morning oh no it was , would n't like to run across today . |
| 9 | ‘ They went right over the top . |
| 10 | ‘ They went right over the top . |
| 11 | The only poor shot I hit was at the 14th , when a little wedge went right over the green . ’ |
| 12 | To the delight of husband Billy ‘ Big Yin ’ Connolly , she squeezed into a tight red mini-dress and went right over the top . |
| 13 | But having h done that and having gone off his toe , he the wardrobe was n't in front of him so much as it was down there by now , and he 'd still got hold of it you see , so because of the momentum , of going that way down two steps and one further one he shot forward and went right over the edge of the wardrobe . |
| 14 | As the sun went down over the trees , everyone in the squadron had enjoyed a hard day 's military training and , after a good dinner and some well-deserved beers , they were very happy and were looking forward to the challenges of the next day . |
| 15 | As the coal went down over the winter months , these boards would be taken away to lower the height . |
| 16 | ‘ Things are obviously becoming very busy and I went in over the weekend to do a bit of work . |
| 17 | The brown paper bag tied with white string hit the pavement , split and corn went all over the place . |
| 18 | Later on they went all over the house , assessing what they might be able to sell , finding out just what Adam 's inheritance amounted to . |
| 19 | and , and it went , cos it was quite a bit more worth petrol that went all over the place . |
| 20 | I lived in the Department of Sonsonate but we went all over the place looking for work . |
| 21 | At first she went all over the place , this way and that , and then into a spin . |
| 22 | ‘ Young Jim just lost the front end of the bike and went all over the road . |
| 23 | The play began its provincial tour in Cambridge ( it went all over the country , but when it came to including the play in Ken 's career notes for Who 's Who in the Theatre , he only mentions Cambridge , as though referring to the West End theatre of that name ) . |
| 24 | He went all over the place looking , but he could n't get hold of it I mean it was obviously it was something that he made himself but it was beautiful ! |
| 25 | oh he went all over the place with that |
| 26 | selection of them went all over the world collecting trees . |
| 27 | The spider affair as it was called went all over the school before the day was out , it caused a great deal of laughter . |
| 28 | Good morning ladies and gentlemen pshoow and they , they went all over the place . |
| 29 | Yeah , and it went all over the table ! |
| 30 | So we went all over the place . |