Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It 's pretty good here — they got photos of food all lit up over the counter so you can just point .
2 People become vulnerable : they feel very thin-skinned ; over-sensitive and self-pitying ; moody and unpredictable , with a cheerfulness that is transparent and brittle ; they may become tearful , perhaps breaking down over an item of television news or for no apparent reason at all .
3 Just finally looking back over a career that spans now five decades , is there anything you 'd have done differently over the years ?
4 Luke laughed deeply , turning away to stare out over the garden again .
5 Do you build a picture in your head before you play anything or do you just jam around over the backing track and wait for something good to happen ?
6 The blackouts were already pulled down over the hall windows .
7 On my perch , arms wrapped tightly round the shrouds , I was alternately laid back over the deck and thrust out over the water .
8 A feeling she had not known in over a decade slipped through her body .
9 The seasons , if they are important enough , can grab people 's attention in the way that you would n't if the programmes just went out over a period of 16 or 20 weeks .
10 Very quickly jump back over the fire and go to the top of the screen .
11 The company expects 300 Alpha applications to be available by September , with more rolling out over the course of the year .
12 As a result , the Ragusans adopted him as their patron saint and his effigy still gazes out over the Stradun .
13 So what he does now he always comes in over the top , so every time you see John shake hands with anybody he 'll always do that and come in over the top actually I 'm in charge and he sort of er sort of stamps his authority on the individual .
14 Those of you who jet off to foreign parts for your hols and fly from Chamden airport , may be interested to know that your flight path probably heads out over The Welfare Field .
15 The Purple Airway is temporarily set up over the route covered by a Royal Flight .
16 Bargaining is often carried out over a period of days , so it 's fortunate that a four- night B&B break at a three-star hotel near the market , is £219 in February and March .
17 Every so often he slipped back to look out over the field and make sure that all was safe .
18 " As for going underground , I 'd rather go back over the heather .
19 In the past , samples of children 's language have been collected using a diary approach where examples of children 's utterances , together with a description of the surrounding context , were simply written down over a period of weeks or months ( Miller 1981a ) .
20 So what I 'm saying to you is , do n't go in over the top , you know , five , just a normal but a firm handshake because a man would expect it because a weak ha ha handshake can be irritating and the same thing if she is a woman
21 You ca n't come in over the top , you must come underneath to get children 's attention . ’
22 They were checked again then carried on over the drawbridge and through the gate .
23 There was a seat against a sunny back wall , and I would come upon the couple sitting there looking out over the garden and their handiwork , planning in quiet voices what should be done next , the next moves .
24 And then came back over the bridge ?
25 The Kates actually drop their torpedoes and then climb up over the ship superstructures as the torpedoes hit home .
26 Walk from the Malá Strana end of the bridge past the first six pairs of statues listed below , then look down over the edge to your right over Kampa Island .
27 A hundred yards beyond Woil a pair of white seagulls wheeled round in the sky , dived over Three Island Pond , and then soared up over the Zoo , free against the summer sky .
28 Gaston I quarrelled with his mother , Margaret of Béarn ( d. 1319 ) and despite a reconciliation in September 1312 , a dispute then broke out over the custody and tutelage of his heir .
29 FOOTBALL-MAD Mike Grimsley gets a pal to tune in to match commentaries on the radio — then listens in over the phone .
30 He broke the gun down and stowed it in the rucksack , slipped the spent cartridge case into his pocket , then jumped back over the fence .
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