Example sentences of "[pn reflx] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effort began to sap his strength and his muscles quivered as at last he pulled himself over the icy edge . |
| 2 | His predecessor , Centwine , abdicated on his conversion to enter a monastery , but of the details of the process by which Caedwalla established himself over the western Saxons nothing is known . |
| 3 | He 's been lucky of course , in that respect , in that he has had something to occupy himself over the last few months as far as the Gulf war is concerned , and in that respect , of course , I think I do n't I think it would be very difficult to fault him . |
| 4 | He planned to take care of her himself over the next five days , he told her . |
| 5 | On a crowded traffic way he 'd have been dead in under a minute but the barren landscape of this world offered little in the way of obstacles and the vehicle seemed able to right itself over the irregular peaks that occasionally reared unexpectedly out of the mists . |
| 6 | If , however , they were unlucky enough to meet wet weather and the harvest extended itself over the stated month , then they might well find themselves working in the fifth week without drawing any extra money . |
| 7 | He welcomed a recent Government announcement that an extra £25 million would be made available to help his organisation to restructure itself over the next three years . |
| 8 | In the town itself over the next few years Class meetings were formed in West Street , Corcrain , Edenderry , Levaghery , Lisniskey and Kernan . |
| 9 | The extent to which the company has transformed itself over the past dozen years should not be underestimated . |
| 10 | The back to nursing movement has established itself over the past five years , partly in response to a national shortage of qualified staff , and partly as a result of the UKCC 's stated commitment to introduce mandatory updating programmes for nurses and health visitors returning to practice after a specified minimum break in service . |
| 11 | That matter is high on their agenda , and the hon. Gentleman may recall that the Labour party has distinguished itself over the past 40 years by being wrong about practically every foreign policy and defence issue that has come before it . |
| 12 | Heads of department from the Soviet trade union centre , the AUCCTU , are expected to visit Congress House in the New Year on a fact-finding mission , and there have been requests for training links to be built between the TUC and the Hungarian trade union body , SZOT , which has been attempting to restructure itself over the last two years . |
| 13 | In between these two new efforts sits Filip 's Advanced Workstations & Systems which has , he notes , taken unto itself over the last year all the ingredients needed to be a stand-alone company bar a dedicated sales force . |
| 14 | Hyacinth nervously straddled the pot again and , supported by her mother , was lowering herself over the steaming brew when the door crashed open . |
| 15 | When Defries pulled herself over the projecting fragments of glass and into the cockpit , Daak was still half out of the pilot 's seat , staring at Ace 's back and her wind-whipped hair . |
| 16 | But there was nothing , and with a quick twist of her body she hoisted herself over the wooden rail to slither down on to the deserted deck . |
| 17 | Er in the alternative of course er the local communities have available er the High Court action which I 've referred to during several discussions with yourselves over the last week or two . |
| 18 | The success rate of lawyers was consistently better than that of trades union representatives and of individuals representing themselves over the four years from 1979 to 1982 covered ( DoE , 1984 ) . |
| 19 | She could view with contempt those of her fellow tourists who , after the Aegean , could excite themselves over the meretricious charms of Venice . |
| 20 | It would be misleading to corrall all the donated works into feminist questioning of gendered identity ; one of the freedoms women have won for themselves over the last 20 years has been precisely those freedoms from conventional definition by gender . |
| 21 | The weekend saw the official BAFTA awards to all those luminous darlings who managed to outshine themselves over the past year on TV or film , and the release of the England averages for their Indian tour , along with the Coopers&Lybrand ratings of Test cricketers . |
| 22 | Fourth , and finally , the rejection of the Athenians by the Spartans makes more sense if the Ephialtic reforms are seen as part of a process rather than as an event , that is , if the qualities which the Spartans feared were gradually manifesting themselves over the whole thirty-year period , 487–457 . |
| 23 | Hmm well you 've been giving a few answers yourself over the last few weeks . |
| 24 | When you have finished , go back over the whole list and circle those four or five things that you would like to work on for yourself over the next week or so . |
| 25 | Anyway , I did some radio interviews and I was quite taken aback when I found myself over the front page of the Evening Standard . |