Example sentences of "[verb] over [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so since that was going to be demolished and built over by a a housing estate anyway , we ripped it out and put it back down here . |
| 2 | Two of us in a great mass of strangers , and various things to do that you 've got to get right , like follow signs and collect your luggage ; then you get looked over by the customs , and no-one particularly cares who you are or what you 're doing there so the two of you have to keep one another cheerful … |
| 3 | They aimed to pass over to the other side of the stockade through the gap between one section and the other , where the bridge spanned the stream . |
| 4 | He failed to release in time to prevent the towplane from being tipped over into the ground . |
| 5 | His shot hit the upright but Swindon , encouraged , at last began to make an impression and Bolton survived a narrow squeak as Simpson 's powerful effort was tipped over by a leaping Felgate . |
| 6 | The canal 's over that-a-way , but if we head over towards the old brickworks- ’ She unlocked a huge padlock which fastened the gates . |
| 7 | I falled over on the living room . |
| 8 | The solid trapdoor lifted and crashed over onto the tiled floor , and his heart soared as the torch light revealed the wooden rungs of a ladder descending into the darkness below . |
| 9 | And Lyon settled the issue in the 72nd minute when he crashed over at the corner for the match-clinching try . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In the worst of three public falls , he ‘ crashed over like a tree ’ at the 1936 Democratic convention , but aides rushed to hide him and pick him up . |
| 12 | First , because I have to slip over to the pub without her . |
| 13 | It was barely three months after her arrival in the village when her life began to pitch over from an even keel , and it remained from then onwards at a pitched-over angle . |
| 14 | Poured on to the plane , alone , Burton was humped for thirteen hours across the Atlantic , assuaged by alcohol ; stopped over for a few drinks in New York and then taken on an eleven-hour trip to Los Angeles which was made tolerable by more alcohol . |
| 15 | ‘ I had similar problems when I stopped over in the Brown Islands , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Sometimes his eyes would glaze over for a second or two as if he were out of their world altogether . |
| 17 | He will not , however , be liable for rent which accrues due after the expiry of the contractual term if an assignee holds over under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , unless there are clear contractual provisions to this effect ( City of London Corporation v Fell [ 1993 ] 04 EG 115 ) . |
| 18 | A person who holds over at the end of a lease is not a trespasser until demand is made , as only the person in possession can be trespassed against ( Hey v Moorhouse ( 1839 ) 6 Bing NC 52 ) . |
| 19 | No I nip over to the shop and get it from near . |
| 20 | Or you could live there , rig up your personal computer and play the Stock Exchange and the Bourse at the same time and then nip over to the West End for a show . ’ |
| 21 | Some sociologists have researched ‘ counter school ’ youth cultures , and how they are naturally carried over onto the shopfloor . |
| 22 | But video installation calls the viewer into spatial relationship with the object , a relationship carried over into a sculptural understanding of even single monitor works . |
| 23 | Furthermore , this ‘ coolness ’ is carried over into a somewhat dull performance of the final movement Precipitato — I can certainly think of several lesser mortals who bring a greater degree of excitement to the music than does Gavrilov . |
| 24 | This instrumentalism would be carried over into a principle of differential rewards according to the hierarchy of office , in which prestige , privilege and power would be isomorphic with one another . |
| 25 | The competitive spirit that had the branches trying to out-do each other 's fancy dress outfits carried over into a Karaoke competition . |
| 26 | Preindustrial aristocratic attitudes were carried over into an industrial age . |
| 27 | Such attitudes were far removed from the world of the fictional Sir Joseph Bowlem in Dickens 's Chimes short story who boasted ‘ I allow nothing to be carried over into the New Year ; every description of account is settled in this house at the close of the old one ’ , and the real life employee of Manders the Wolverhampton paintmakers who scribbled on the flyleaf of a 1896 catalogue : |
| 28 | St Joseph 's church at Crofton is retained , and elements of the two churches which have been replaced are carried over into the new one . |
| 29 | The principle of counting to ensure pastoral care and effective deployment of manpower is carried over into the New Testament . |
| 30 | This policy was to be carried over into the post-independence period . |