Example sentences of "over [prep] [art] [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( This plan was abandoned when rumours began to circulate that the castle was about to be taken over as a headquarters for Field Marshal Kesselring ; rumours which subsequently proved to have no basis in fact . ) |
| 2 | Their park was given over as a whole for building development , and laid out on the gridiron pattern in the middle decades of the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | Finding decent practice facilities was a constant headache , leading to some crazy situations ; in St Vincent , for example , Ken Barrington , the assistant manager , hunted all over for a place for Boycott to practise , and eventually found a piece of flat ground near the airport which had ducks waddling around and a donkey at long leg . |
| 4 | There are indications that the mill was turned over for a time for saw milling , and possibly even cider production . |
| 5 | Pepper was in no mood for mercy , however , and in the 58th minute he broke free from a maul , went inside Graves and , with Moon hanging on , crashed over near the post for Gregory to convert . |
| 6 | Penry parked the Range Rover in the open space behind the arches of the ancient market hall , then reached over into the back for Leonora 's bag . |
| 7 | Some members of the Committee did raise the problem of the ‘ long-term costs to the community ’ likely to be brought about by the closure of Village school , but this objection was apparently passed over with no request for clarification , consultation , or serious study of the problem . |
| 8 | The commission considered that ‘ no producer should be entitled to rid himself of all responsibility for the waste simply by handing it over to a contractor for disposal ’ , and it recommended that the duty should be enshrined in legislation . |
| 9 | But they refused to hand him over to the US for trial and the coup crumbled when American troops stationed in Panama retaliated by ignoring their pleas for help against loyal troops . |
| 10 | Reagan took Congress very seriously and was always coming over to the Capitol for meetings . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ She had to take some things over to the hospital for Adam . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I need to take some things over to the hospital for Emma , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Gradually Congress was won over to the need for tax increases and cuts in public expenditure . |
| 14 | " I 'm going over to the Drovers for lunch . " |
| 15 | They all went over to the fire for plates of meat and bread . |
| 16 | Some of these covers were actually odd pieces of common land , old cow-pastures that had been allowed to get out of hand , taken over by the fox-hunters for fencing and preservation , in return for a money payment to the holders of the common rights . |