Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [vb pp] [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've put on over a stone |
| 2 | I have seen frequently over the last year and I have been very grateful for her friendship , not to mention the clothes she has lent me which her daughter has outgrown . |
| 3 | I have looked carefully over a period of weeks at those applications , and have reached the view that they deserve to be granted . |
| 4 | At the end of the day I had the satisfaction of presiding in the Lords debate on the Bill and noting the very last words in Barbara Castle 's account of the affair : ‘ Now , unexpectedly , I have received a letter of ‘ appreciation ’ from Harold for the ‘ hard work and long hours ’ I have put in over the consultants ' ‘ package ’ . |
| 5 | You 've conducted all over the world , including one place in India where you told the orchestra to play forte throughout in order to defeat the noise of the air-conditioning , the Vatican , and the great open-air theatre at Epidaurus in Greece . |
| 6 | The Sorrel Quartet , a young group of musicians who have played all over the world , were joined by violist Roger Bigley , a founder member of the Lindsay Quartet , to play two Mozart String Quintets , No 1 in B flat , K174 , and No 4 in G minor , K516 . |
| 7 | It is a wonderful feeling to be able to experience the strength , suppleness and stamina that you have built up over the last three weeks . |
| 8 | There are cert certain categories of business that we 've built up over the year . |
| 9 | You know this sort of thing and all British wildlife has got its own little characters , every species is different er and you know thousands of animals we 've taken in over the years we 've just learnt different things about different animals that suit different animals . |
| 10 | Here , for the nostalgic or merely curious among you , is the complete list of all the stuff we 've put out over the years . |
| 11 | The unpredictability remains even when we have read to the end of the couplet. even when we have processed both lines of the couplet , our understanding will not be complete until we have gone back over the lines from the viewpoint of their relationship . |
| 12 | Mr Deputy Speaker I 'm just about to come on the South Wales police but I will answer the point directly , er I and my honourable friend the parliamentary secretary are always willing to discuss with local government , matters relating to local government finance and we have done so over the months leading up to this settlement and my honourable and right honourable friends in the Home Office are always willing to discuss matters on the police er where they are important and warrant a ministerial meeting and that again has happened recently with the Home Office min minister discussing this very issue . |
| 13 | Then through the use of secondary picketing , frequently associated with intimidation and physical violence ( such as we have seen repeatedly over the past decade in connection with the miners ' strikes , the Shrewsbury incidents , Grunwick , the lorry drivers ' strike ) , unions become a threat to personal freedom . |
| 14 | Now speaking to you , as chairman of the G M B parliamentary group I can tell you that we have met twice over the last few weeks on this issue of modernization and we are agreed on the need to avoid a damaging public row from which everybody yes including the unions , will lose . |
| 15 | ‘ We have expanded rapidly over the past few years and have now outgrown our existing factory , ’ said David Gray , chairman and managing director of the Saltofix Group . |
| 16 | We have arrived exactly over the quarter-point from a position slightly south of our line 's origin ( i.e. , from the downwind leg at Gransden ) so must adjust our heading slightly for the next leg to the half-way mark . |
| 17 | We have celebrated all over the world — in the Diaspora outside Palestine , and inside Palestine too , in the Yishuv itself . |
| 18 | Liz Clifton the gallery organiser says the work is very skilled and they 've looked all over the country to find things . |
| 19 | Thousands of Poles settled here after the last war , but they 've worked hard over the years to keep in touch with their cultural roots . |
| 20 | And erm I think they 've been I think they 've changed really over the months I think all of us have as well and erm well that 's how it started anyway . |
| 21 | Agencies like this find that some people want a complete change from previous work , others like to continue using the skills they have built up over the years . |
| 22 | Something they have proved consistently over the last ten years . |
| 23 | Such courses which may relate to graphic design , fashion/textile design , interior design , and product design are usually of similar duration to those leading to CNAA degrees , that is three years full-time , and the numbers taking them have grown gradually over the years . |
| 24 | Fewer than 1 in 5 of the men in our sample has confined his sexual experience to a single partner , though two-thirds of them have done so over the last 12 months . |