Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | just off hanging over the welly boots when somebody puts their feet in the welly boots they get a bit of shock ! |
| 2 | Circumstantial evidence could take the form of showing the defendant wished to cover up an offence committed by himself , such as driving over the prescribed limit , being involved in an accident and then , as mentioned ( C ) 2 ante alleging that someone else was driving at the time of the accident . |
| 3 | After mulling over the idea for almost a year , Mr Chambers made the decision to leave Greenfield Human Resources — the agency he joined as a trainee in 1956 and left as a director — and set up on his own . |
| 4 | I apologize for using the semimetaphorical terms ‘ hard ’ and ‘ soft ’ in this essay , but after puzzling over the matter for some time I can see no other way of setting about it . |
| 5 | After grappling over the course of the novel with his essential nature and that of those around him , he finally renounces his quest for a fixed meaning , a completed story : |
| 6 | A US armed forces spokesman , Lt-Col Greg Smith , said many of the 527 migrants were ill and were being examined by doctors after disembarking over the weekend . |
| 7 | After wandering over the ‘ handsome ’ mouth and the ‘ bad-boy 's ’ ears and the hair ( ’ a masterpiece ’ ) , Danby concluded that North was a type of composite mythological figure , ready to step into a set constructed from ‘ 200 years of American archetypes and 50 years of the cinema ’ . |
| 8 | After passing over the top of Red Crag — an ill-defined top marked with a small cairn of stones to the left of the fence — bear to the left through the remains of a wooden gate towards a much lower peak intriguingly called Pikeawassa . |
| 9 | Already , after going over the encounter a few times , it was becoming , like the blue overhead , ambiguous . |
| 10 | If a house is bought this way all the surveys and investigations should be carried out first , and you must be ready to sign and exchange contracts on the day of the auction after paying over the 10 per cent deposit . |
| 11 | PAY settlements in manufacturing industry are now only slightly ahead of inflation , after halving over the last year , according to revised figures released yesterday by the Confederation of British Industry . |
| 12 | Under British pressure , the French eventually departed in humiliation , but only after presiding over a covenant that gave the Lebanese republic the system of power-sharing which is now disintegrating . |
| 13 | After presiding over a string of humiliating scandals and embarrassing policy failures , they feel on top once again . |
| 14 | A thief made off with £45 from a shop in Easington Village after leaning over the counter and snatching a cash bag . |
| 15 | Our agreement would propose a royalty of 2% of our receipts on each written component for the use of the syllabus of Project English and for looking over the Activity Book and Video Guide manuscripts . |
| 16 | Herons seem to be incapable of stepping over the deterrent . |
| 17 | Texas Instruments , Sun 's co-developer and fabricator , said that the ‘ business decision ’ to start ramping-up production of the smaller chips at the expense of fussing over the 50MHz part was made two months ago , because Sun could n't wait any longer . |
| 18 | The purpose of the research is to examine the factors which have influenced the rapid growth of subcontracting over the past decade in certain sectors . |
| 19 | He started by saying that after Montaine 's death Jean-Claude had survived in the dark — a dirty , torn piece of sacking over the window and newspaper plugging the broken panes , obscuring the merest ray of sunlight . |
| 20 | The Mason climbed the spokes of the cart wheel , grunted with the exertion of climbing over the rim of the stage , and rose to his feet where the golden pavilion hid him from Gabriel 's view . |
| 21 | Between them , the Waleses have established a way of operating over the last ten years that is unmistakably their own ; and quite unlike any other branch of the Royal Family . |
| 22 | Since the average rate at which the foreign debt was raised was probably about 25 dinars , its dinar value in early 1988 was about 50 times as great , approximately the same as the change in the cost of living over the same period . |
| 23 | Certainly , it seems reasonable to assume that individuals whose temperamental make-up is more ‘ psychotic ’ , and who therefore have a greater predisposition to psychosis , will be in greatest danger of passing over the threshold into overt illness , just as those of anxious temperament are more likely to develop an anxiety neurosis , and persons whose blood pressure is more labile will carry an enhanced risk of heart attack or stroke . |
| 24 | Some do , er the rise and fall type of fitting over a dining table where when you 're er , er having dinner you 'd have erm it down to about what not more than twelve inches above the table er so that it lit the table but did n't shine in your eyes , erm some people leave it like that all the time , other people having had a meal lift er it up , erm I think the main thing about the , er adjustable fly and fall is that erm , it 's there for , as you want it , if you 're trying to find a meal you 've lost on the floor well then you pull it down to floor level really . |
| 25 | Nowadays , too , the suggestion that a woman 's role consists entirely of slaving over the cooker , the kitchen sink and the washing is certain to irritate a significant number of people , though it is still a real enough situation for the majority of women . |
| 26 | And that 's why they 're sort of clambering over the bridge , in order to get onto the shortcut . |
| 27 | Within a couple of minutes of going over the destroyer 's port side , Donald Roy 's kilted Scotsmen were attacking the pumphouse 50 yards from the caisson ( 'H' on diagram p. 41 ) . |
| 28 | As he puffed the cigar to life , he shook his head , a man weary of going over the same ground again . |
| 29 | At ten fifty-five hours sharp Lance-Corporal Trumper stood trembling outside the colonel 's tent , almost as fearful of his commanding officer as of going over the top . |
| 30 | I find it almost amusing to listen to several of my contemporaries tell me about that ill-fated occasion and how they found a means of getting over the Alps . |