Example sentences of "[verb] over [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clive Allen missed one great chance six minutes before half-time when his snap shot from inside the box , following a superb pass by Julian Dicks , was brilliantly tipped over by Bees ' keeper Graham Benstead . |
| 2 | Sometimes it clouded over with rays of darkness . |
| 3 | On either side of the porch are herbaceous borders which in summer , are a riot of colour , brimming over with flowers which threaten to engulf the ground floor window . |
| 4 | Water features , such as a bubble fountain , large pots brimming over with flowers and areas of rocks , gravel or pebbles , can also be included in the layout . |
| 5 | Pots and containers brimming over with flowers or foliage are an indispensable garden feature particularly for adding that finishing touch to patios . |
| 6 | ‘ No , I do n't think you knock over post offices . |
| 7 | The local rubbish-tip near the roadside is constantly picked over by gulls , starlings , crows and ravens . |
| 8 | Dignity right now seemed a bit optimistic , when she could feel her eyes blurring over with tears , but anything was better than standing here at the foot of the stairs , rooted to the spot and subjected mercilessly to his naked inspection of her . |
| 9 | With Ingres Corp and Informix Software Inc already won over to CAFS Content-Addressable File Store-based database Search Accelerator hardware , ICL says that Oracle Systems Corp has now signed to implement a version of its database for the system , while Sybase Inc is waiting in the wings to follow suit . |
| 10 | The prestige audience would be won over by movies that could take their place alongside the middle-class novel and play . |
| 11 | Steve Astington says he was a rock climber and then moved over to marathons … this is his thirteenth … you have to put a lot of training in … he does them for the enjoyment it takes him away from life and all the stresses |
| 12 | As I said before , people do fall over during fights . |
| 13 | It had been bad enough lying to Piers , leaving him because she knew that she had to , however much she disliked it , but to while away her time here , doing nothing but mulling over past events , was a recipe for misery . |
| 14 | Anger welled up in Juliet , and boiled over into words she never meant to say . |
| 15 | Extreme care is needed not to space the tracks so closely together that any high voltages flash over between tracks can occur . |
| 16 | She could certainly bubble over on Occasions but it was never a one-woman show . |
| 17 | His whole soul had been so given over to dreams of leaving Loxford recently that he was startled to think his father might share them . |
| 18 | Large portions of the Education Bill are given over to procedures for the creation and financing of grant maintained schools , a cornerstone of government policy . |
| 19 | He also remembered with a sense of humiliation and disgust that the pages of the Informer were now given over to articles on gay rights , the ‘ politics of feminism ’ and peer pressure towards glue-sniffing in the inner cities . |
| 20 | The rest of the time was devoted to history or geography , but always there would be two afternoons given over to handicrafts , particularly knitting and sewing . |
| 21 | Many settlements withered during the late Middle Ages but did not die until the Elizabethan or Stuart era when a local lord decided that corn production was no longer economical and that the arable land must be given over to cattle and sheep pastures . |
| 22 | Some of the programme on Saturday , November 28th has been given over to residents of several old people 's homes and approximately £500 worth of tickets for the 2.00pm service have been donated to the residents . |
| 23 | In the towns , markets contain whole sections given over to stalls with a vast variety of herbs and roots for every conceivable ailment from toothache to tuberculosis . |
| 24 | According to the Chinese Ministry of Forestry , there has been an increase in the land given over to trees in recent years . |
| 25 | East of the Fosse in Townsend Close , the buildings apparently also went out of use , with their associated plots given over to burials , which again followed the earlier layouts and rarely contained any grave goods ; observation of roadworks between Townsend Close and Heave Acre revealed yet more similar burials . |
| 26 | The old city was abandoned a second time , given over to romantics , theorists , transients and dogs . |
| 27 | When a national newspaper first published Mrs Travers ' views , the response was so great that a whole page had to be given over to readers ' letters . |
| 28 | In winter it is given over to turnstones , purple sandpiper , oystercatchers and other shellfish-eating birds . |
| 29 | Hearthwares argued over past skirmishes and hunts , the lords over family history and precedence , the arguments becoming more fantastic as they put away more ale . |
| 30 | For a moment or two , the men hauled on Gabriel like a soul on the Day of Judgement fought over by angels and devils . |