Example sentences of "over [coord] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The animated debate amongst students and intellectuals before the Seventh National People 's Congress in April indicated that the anti-bourgeois campaign of 1987 was over and that a renewed period of liberalisation was under way .
2 The Sergeant took us into the small canteen and told us quietly and forcefully that our holiday in Aubagne was over and that we were off to start four months of basic training designed to turn us into legionnaires .
3 The decline in inflation and the recovery of real incomes was read , quite naturally , as a sign that the emergency was over and that they could safely assert their ‘ rights ’ .
4 One is that he led a wretched existence since MacQuillan took over and that he lost his temper when he found his office taken over by someone else .
5 Now I realise , with growing apprehension , that my fertile years will soon be over and that the time has come to make another choice .
6 Solicitors acting for the Princess of Wales have demanded that secret photographs of her working out in a gym should be handed over and that she should be given details of how much money was made from them .
7 Speaking last week at a conference entitled ‘ New Directions in Technology Policy ’ , Commerce secretary Ron Brown said that ‘ a raging debate about the proper relationship between industry and the government ’ is over and that the government is ‘ ready to work hand-in-hand with industry to strengthen the US economy ’ .
8 brick inset was all the brick and then plastered over and that gave the black and white effect , but that was the original and the , the proper way to do it
9 The West Germans objected strongly but it was all smoothed over and so they will have a trio of Internazionale players — Matthaus , Klinsmann and Brehme — starting the World Cup on their home ground while Belgium , who at one stage were being threatened with Sicily , are at least promised the occasional cooling breeze in Verona .
10 The West Germans objected strongly but it was all smoothed over and so they will have a trio of Internazionale players — Matthaus , Klinsmann and Brehme — starting the World Cup on their home ground while Belgium , who at one stage were being threatened with Sicily , are at least promised the occasional cooling breeze in Verona .
11 Exercise tones you up all over and as well as making you feel fresher and fitter , it helps you to sleep better .
12 In the eyes of Scots fans everywhere , he needed a good doing over and if Tiger McKay was too old to give him , one then there was always Wild Bill Bremner .
13 Before the two teams take the stage at HQ , the league programme will be over and if Orrell keep up their current good form they will win the Championship .
14 Anyway , it was a lon , there 's a little restaurant in the road , and it was back of sort of erm Mar , if you wal , you crossed over and if you went through a little slip where it came , you came into this little arcade of shops where o , about in the road next to er
15 ‘ She kept repeating it over and and over again like a robot . ’
16 Well he might for instance let us come over and and play with CorelDraw for an hour in one evening or something like that .
17 Er it is then an opportunity of getting at five five individuals and giving them a a pretty thorough going over and and a lot of encouragement .
18 Yeah well I could n't so I had to come over and and buy them a flipping new one !
19 As soon as it is touch dry , it should be painted over and when the wash is almost dry , the fluid is removed .
20 And we drove round and she 's got a bungalow and all she 's got these curtains that all cross over and when you sit outside it do n't look as if there 's any lights on .
21 and old industrial buildings that they 've just taken over and when there 's a crisis in the housing , the state takes over the schools and uses them as refugee centres
22 Go on I tell you what why do n't you flip it over and start on the other side , even though it says this side done , this is an old tape from a seismograph and er we were afraid to use it in our work but I think the sound 's alright on it , you flip it over and where it says this side down , put that side up and use the other half of the tape and let me hear your comments back .
23 But I thought if that 's how they run a business So then when they , they moved house I realized they were using an ordinary saucepan to do their chips in and I had visions of fat boiling over and cos it 's gas so I bought them one a very nice deep fryer as a housewarming present .
24 Each of those four nations er really ought to test the software pretty thoroughly before they hand it over but because er we could n't afford four lots of test equipment we said right , ship your software out , in tested to only a modest level and it 'll all be tested centrally in the Deutsch Aerospace facility .
25 And then Helena , Joanne and me would be sleeping over but because they 've got a dog I 'm not going to sleep !
26 Put the carpets , put everything in and er and we paid for it and they still go ad now course the national union 's taken it over but when we joined the national union there were two things that er I stipulated before we 'd join .
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