Example sentences of "[vb pp] over in the " in BNC.
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1 | The doctor was too young to have come over in the last war . |
2 | Each month 's results are picked over in the business 's board meeting , with a head-office manager present in a non-executive role . |
3 | Ponds were frozen over in the London parks and a thin but icy fog concealed the raw branches of the winter trees . |
4 | A production assistant hot-footed it round to Camera 3 's position and came through with : ‘ Jeez , boss , three 's crook — he 's fell over in the heat . ’ |
5 | She says he 's er he 's fell over in the , you know , and er , he he 's al , he were always running , he gets on left side onto us runs to this corner , calls out to the missus |
6 | Adam had fallen over in the playground , hit his head on a bench , been taken to hospital . |
7 | When the Suez crisis boiled over in the autumn , the strain on ministers was immense . |
8 | Racial tension boiled over in the inner city riots which spread across the nation in the " long hot summers " of 1965–7 . |
9 | It was discarded when shelving had to be cleared away from a wall on which a mural had been discovered after being painted over in the Stalinist era when the artist who created it had fallen out of favour . |
10 | The second CD is given over in the main to what I think of as Mark Goodier bands ( not a breath of criticism implicit in that , by the way ) . |
11 | erm we have developed over in the university , in the arts area especially , for arts undergraduates who do n't have mathematical or scientific training , ways of giving them erm training in computer programming , and they come out really both full of fun about it and with a lot more confidence than they could possibly have imagined they would have when they began . |
12 | Air pumps and the aeration features on many pumps/powerheads ensure plenty of oxygen in the water ( as does the fact that it is regularly turned over in the tank ) . |
13 | Before the surrounding land was built over in the last century and subsequently , you could have seen it from miles away in every direction . |
14 | If , for instance , you are pushed over in the playground , would it be all right to push the aggressor in return ? |
15 | Instead the orbs had sunk back and there was a darkness to the face , a suppressed despair , even an agitation that spoke of tedious things , so unlike those experiences we had laughed over in the past . |
16 | Cooper was not in court to hear the judgement , but the effect on McMahon was explosive : ‘ One moment I was sitting bent over in the dock in utter despair , the next I was on my feet with arms outstretched , screaming at the judges . |
17 | A third defendant , Keith Bunting , 23 , of Ashley Road , Dovercourt , denies using threatening or insulting behaviour and resisting arrest while a fourth , Damon Wait , 17 , of Victoria Road , Dovercourt , agreed to be bound over in the sum of £50 to keep the peace for 12 months . |
18 | Brothers Ernest and Michael Robinson of Thompson Grove , Hartlepool , were bound over in the sum of £100 to keep the peace for six months after a fight with another man in York Road . |
19 | Knives and forks clattered down and forms were kicked over in the uproar which followed . |
20 | Voices were suddenly raised over in the crowd and people began scattering to the edges of the area , clearing the centre and falling silent . |
21 | There are over 50,000 Vietnamese in what used to be the GDR brought over in the Eighties as Gastarbeiter ( guest workers ) to do menial factory jobs . |
22 | The consignment was brought over in the same way and after it was left in a lay-by in Lymm , Cheshire , Customs officers pounced when Scott arrived to collect it . |
23 | There was enough left over in the 5lb bag to give most of the plot another top dressing last month . |
24 | There 's one in the garage I 'm sure there was one left over in the garage . |
25 | Commercial farmers ( increasingly Africans who have taken over in the wake of the slow European exodus since Independence ) are still relied upon to provide the bulk of the urban demand for foodstuffs , particularly luxury items such as beef , milk , and cheese . |
26 | The Romanesque was taken over in the last two decades of the nineteenth century , when American railway-station building reached its apogee in masterpieces of creative eclecticism . |
27 | The unnatural has taken over in the shape of the chain-saw and the bulldozer . |
28 | The general effect is taken over in the first red-figure ( fig. 87 ) ; but the black line which replaces incision is drawn with a brush , so by nature more malleable and fluid . |
29 | The more recent story of Tom Watt has taken over in the forefront of my mind . |
30 | And newcomer Lesley Ottery , formerly with PowerGen , has taken over in the newly-created post of Director of Information Systems . |