Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb pp] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dyson slowly turned over the empty pages of his diary . |
| 2 | The Prince carelessly handed over the sealed paper , then sent one of his Dutch aides to enquire about the identity of the girl in the diaphanous gold dress . |
| 3 | One part-time farmer was killed when struck by a falling tree during a storm while a forestry worker died after a section of a felled tree trunk apparently rolled over as he attempted to handle it . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , however , its independence would be instrumental in addressing another aspect of independence which some felt the study quickly passed over — that of audit from other services provided by the same accounting firm . |
| 5 | In 1952 the Studio Club officially handed over its funds , amounting to a grand total of £40 ( quite a good sum in those days ) and all its records to the new Medau Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland with Hila Hyam as Treasurer , myself as Secretary and , of course , Molly as President ’ . |
| 6 | This assistance inevitably spilled over as an increase in general prosperity for the ordinary Milanese city dweller . |
| 7 | His indignation frequently boiled over to a point where he thought and demanded that a libel writ should be issued . |
| 8 | Arfur spoke for everybody when he said , a wondering expression on his face : ‘ My Daddy just felled over and died ! ’ |
| 9 | Firebrand David Batty was twice surrounded by finger-jabbing Sampdoria players as the pre-season showpiece frequently boiled over . |
| 10 | Alex first witnessed the perils of pop stardom a decade ago when , having done Killing Joke 's laundry , he saw the band almost split over who owned which pair of newly washed socks . |
| 11 | His place of birth , Montona near Trieste , was one day just handed over to the Communists and became a part of Yugoslavia . |
| 12 | During the ceremony the main contractors and the architect formally handed over the building to him . |
| 13 | As it reached each tree in turn , the tree gracefully bent over , curving its trunk so that both roots and branches touched the ground . |
| 14 | But the woman merely rolled over and sat up , easing the jacket from her , calm now , the fit — if that was what it had been — gone from her . |
| 15 | Joss-stick and Asian artefact merchants added to the atmosphere of the Indian countryside suddenly taken over by the children of the long boom . |
| 16 | Sudirman promptly handed over a vast cache to the city pemuda . |
| 17 | But the game really boiled over with Gorman 's dismissal on 18 minutes . |
| 18 | The man slowly turned over the page of his magazine . |
| 19 | And they almost went in front on eight minutes , Michael Surgeon beating the Comrades ' off-side trap only to see his well struck 20-yard drive brilliantly tipped over by 'keeper George Cathcart . |
| 20 | Karajan 's return to music-making and recording in 1946–7 was brought about with the help of Legge and , at much the same time , the great Italian conductor Victor de Sabata , another man totally given over to music but whom the whirligig of public opinion had rightly exonerated despite extensive war work in both Italy and Germany in front of audiences of all manner of political persuasions . |
| 21 | The Norwich civil servant thought the trip would be a complete waste of time after arriving to find the lake completely frozen over but the pike fed furiously for three hours . |
| 22 | So little time had he to spare , indeed , that he declined Jardine 's invitation to shoot with him in Scotland , an opportunity he had in the past seldom passed over . |
| 23 | Picketline disorder eventually spilled over into mining communities , which became the sites of major disturbances . |
| 24 | ‘ I was staring at it and wishing it to tip and then my eyes went all hot and funny and some sort of power came out of them and the glass just toppled over . ’ |
| 25 | The East Somerset line later taken over by the Great Western Railway could never have made a profit . |
| 26 | & Despite some well-publicized takeover battles , most of the mergers were ‘ agreed ’ , and were indeed often initiated by the company eventually taken over . |
| 27 | The amalgamation between two companies may take the form of merger proper ( when both companies cease to exist ) and the new company becomes the general successor in title of the two companies so merged , or it may take the form of a take-over when only the company so taken over ceases to exist . |
| 28 | The company only turned over about three million pounds last year , and made profits of just over a hundred thousand . |
| 29 | As I was putting the thermometer back in its case the calf suddenly toppled over and went into a frothing convulsion . |
| 30 | Erm , I think I will give up being Chair this time , I 've done it too long , too long , and I 've had it John as Co-Chair during the year and I hope that he 'll be able to carry on as , as Chair Person , I think really I 've done it , done it for long enough erm , and we 'll have to ask , we hope , we hope the Treasurer just taken over will carry on |