Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [verb] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kenneth Baker , the party chairman , said yesterday that Cabinet ministers would play a stronger role in government than they had done over the last decade , and there would have to be public spending increases in the 1990s to pay for an improved quality of life . |
| 2 | But I am determined to fight back , and where I think that they 've gone over the top , I 'll take them to court . |
| 3 | An essential part of all eel tanks is sliding glass covers , so these were duly closed and the eels left to themselves for the night while I hoped that they were strong enough to survive the constant stress that they had endured over the past thirty-six hours . |
| 4 | They make their own glazes from finely ground rocks to recipes that they have developed over the years . |
| 5 | Arthur Pearcy 's book US Coast Guard Aircraft Since 1916 is a history of the Guard comprising detailed descriptions of over 90 different types of aircraft that they have operated over the years , coupled with information on the designation systems and the colours and markings used by this fifth military air arm of the United States . |
| 6 | ‘ This report surely demands a rethink by both the Government and the senior management of BR of the policies that they have adopted over the last 10 years . ’ |
| 7 | Once they had got over the first shock , neither Bridget nor Tracey seemed able to take her story entirely seriously . |
| 8 | If they do drive over the legal limit , it is usually because they are left with no other way to get home and they worry about parental reaction if they are late getting home . |
| 9 | Snakes , locusts , bacteria and viruses are welcome to occupy their valuable niches in our world but they do go over the top on occasions . |
| 10 | Probably because they had n't re-used they got there by two or three or four years time when they came on to the next level of management the junior management erm we did this with them again and you would begin to find certain skills had evolved and certain certain team strengths had arisen because they do change over the years . |
| 11 | For most people though there is a curiosity about the past , about how people lived and behaved , about whether they have changed over the centuries , and this can in part be answered by archaeology . |
| 12 | That 's if the lawyers left her anything after they 'd picked over the bones . |
| 13 | When they 've got over the shock , most are mainly concerned for their daughters ' welfare , and give them a lot of support , as illustrated many times in the accounts that follow . |
| 14 | O&Y 's liquidity crisis meant it could not repay the holders when they refused to roll over the commercial paper . |
| 15 | Taff was with the 3″ mortar team as they continued to send over the occasional mortar bomb , their target a crossroads at the other end of the village . |
| 16 | Some of the sepoys were shot or cut down as they struggled to get over the possessions ' which stuck out jaggedly here and there ; a sowar pitched headless from his horse on to a silted-up velvet chaise longue ; a warrior from Oudh dived head first in a glittering shower through a case of tropical birds while a comrade at his elbow died spreadeagled on the mud-frozen wheels of the gorse bruiser . |
| 17 | They lied at least four times last week as they tried to gloss over the seriousness of a plutonium spillage at the heart of their reprocessing operation . |
| 18 | There was a little group of men gathered outside what looked like a café , Indians some of them , their faces dark and sombre as they stood arguing over the ruins of their village . |
| 19 | But , as they have discovered over the past year , tied agents can be expensive and difficult groups of people to do business with . |