Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | Partly because the species are not marketable , partly because trees are only taken over a certain size , erm and so on . |
| 4 | The man slowly turned over the page of his magazine . |
| 5 | Dyson slowly turned over the empty pages of his diary . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Infanticide by males which have just taken over a harem is probably common in nature in many species : it has been observed several times in the Hanuman langur ( Presbytis entellus , a species of primate ) and has been anecdotally recorded in many other mammals . |
| 8 | Jacques Poos , the foreign minister of Luxembourg ( which has just taken over the Community 's rotating presidency ) , expressed the hope that he would be authorised to visit Baghdad on its behalf . |
| 9 | At Festival time 1983 , Fania Williams , who had just taken over the Tron in Glasgow , asked me if I was interested in fairy tales . |
| 10 | I had just taken over the Chair and I thought that he was making an intervention . |
| 11 | I know your local authority craftsmen and I have as you 're aware , just taken over the responsibilities and that is the first meeting that I had , that was why also there 's nothing in the report , because I thought I had a conference of people I had not spoken to the shop stewards I did n't have a f a feedback prior to the closing date of the report being concluded for print so I do and I have |
| 12 | ‘ Robert had just taken over the Seconds , but was called back to play in the first team . |
| 13 | They argued that a new racism based on arguments about cultural difference had largely taken over the arenas of public debate . |
| 14 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 15 | By January , the navy had already taken over the oil fields from striking oil workers and was producing just under a third of normal output , . |
| 16 | They have even been known to raid the picnic basket if I am overly engrossed over a little ‘ hot spot ’ I have found . |
| 17 | However , so long as we remain in the Community , Parliament has effectively handed over a number of functions that it has traditionally fulfilled . |
| 18 | Sudirman promptly handed over a vast cache to the city pemuda . |
| 19 | During the ceremony the main contractors and the architect formally handed over the building to him . |
| 20 | Roger Flemington FCIB , took the chair and , at the conclusion of the meeting , formally handed over the Presidency to Sir Jeremy Morse KCMG , FCIB . |
| 21 | On 5 July 1966 that Congress , which had made him president For Life , revoked this decision and also handed over the authority to appoint Cabinets to General Suharto . |
| 22 | They , Castle Houses , had put up the prize for a steeplechase and had also taken over a prestigious handicap hurdle race already in the programme for Saturday . |
| 23 | He has now moved over a mile away from Youngs ' home . |
| 24 | The Papingo Trophy was traced to The Royal Company and on 7th June , 1951 , a contingent of Royal Archers paraded through Kilwinning and ceremoniously handed over the trophy to the joint care of the town council and the Ancient Society of Archers . |
| 25 | The chief executives of the three firms have been discussing the plan for five months and have now handed over the task of implementing the grand design to their operating systems managers . |
| 26 | The chief executives of the three firms have been discussing the plan for five months and have now handed over the task of implementing the grand design to their operating systems managers . |
| 27 | He may have told you we 've now handed over the Nissan Sunny to John and replaced it with a new bright-red Micra ( the one with the cuddly toy-car image ) . |
| 28 | Second , the scope of what New Historicism involves is continuously changing , and the conflicts between contending views are often localised over a few issues . |
| 29 | Princesse Mathilde , when she and Frederick had originally taken over the château , had been similarly inspired by its location . |
| 30 | He had now knocked over a bottle of gentian violet . |