Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next section between Culver Street and Gigant Street and Guilder Lane and Pennyfarthing Street could have seen little change over a long period . |
| 2 | The memoirs of great inter-war players like Dixie Dean , Tommy Lawton , and Stanley Matthews politely skate over the issue , but a Manchester United player in the 1920s recalled a telling incident involving the club captain , Frank Barson . |
| 3 | The partnership was successfully liquidated over a period of years and it was left to John Baring to rebuild the business in the form of a limited company . |
| 4 | Put in pan and slowly melt over a low heat , but do not boil . |
| 5 | Place in a bowl with the milk and gently heat over a pan of simmering water , stirring occasionally until melted and almost smooth . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There 's no installation program ; instead you have to create a directory on your hard disk and manually copy over the files . |
| 8 | Since the acquisition of premises ( other than where the entrepreneur purchases the premises as a going concern and merely takes over an existing catering enterprise ) normally involves at least a change of use and often the development of the premises , planning permission is required . |
| 9 | No one is saying it is fair , but the system has more or less worked over the years . |
| 10 | I only took over the financial reins three weeks before the end of the financial year ! |
| 11 | She only took over the field 6 months ago and fears young hooligans are trying to drive her and her animals away . |
| 12 | He admitted that mistakes had been made in the five months since he personally took over the government , especially in the slow pace of privatisation . |
| 13 | Mr Yeltsin admitted that mistakes had been made in the five months since he personally took over the government , especially in the very slow pace of privatisation . |
| 14 | While the Camphill Development Project will naturally take up time and energy and demand much sacrifice over the next few years it must not become our only goal . |
| 15 | Partly because the species are not marketable , partly because trees are only taken over a certain size , erm and so on . |
| 16 | ( vi ) Make preparations by dropping suspension from a Pasteur pipette on clean pre-cooled slides and gently dry over a low gas flame . |
| 17 | Since the birth of their sons , Felix ( now aged four ) and Max ( one ) , the Roberts were lucky enough to take over the raised ground floor which not only gave them more space but also allowed them vital access to the garden . |
| 18 | She 's sixteen , old enough to take over the housekeeping . ’ |
| 19 | The other way to find out is to cover each eye in turn ; if there 's a squint , the bad eye will generally move outwards to take over the job of seeing . |
| 20 | Each truck has to carry 26 of them , together weighing over a ton . |
| 21 | The man slowly turned over the page of his magazine . |
| 22 | Dyson slowly turned over the empty pages of his diary . |
| 23 | Men who think with pride of themselves as gourmets , relish rare vintages and affectedly enthuse over a Romani Conti or other costly wine . |
| 24 | Receivership is anathema to corporate financiers , who hate to see their fat fees going to those who just pick over the bones . |
| 25 | Until the northern route was made the only road link between Applecross and the world outside lay over the notorious Bealach na Ba , a high and difficult pass attaining an elevation of 2000 feet ; a sore trial for a timid car driver . |
| 26 | The former Charlton youngster has had a harrowing time at Wednesday since his £250,000 move in January last year — but is aiming to finally win over the Hillsborough boo-boys . |
| 27 | They look like any other novel if you just flick over the pages and they are divided into chapters . |
| 28 | When she finally turned over a page and saw his name , it seemed oddly unreal . |
| 29 | The first time he sang the poem Bilbo had just handed over the Ring and was off to Rivendell ; the words accordingly express a sense of abdication , of having been left behind , along with determination to accept this and make a new life somewhere as yet unknown . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm training it to grow along the kitchen wall , and the flowers already hang over the kitchen 's picture window . |