Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had gone up to Magdalen College , asked at the Porters ' Lodge , discovered the grounds were closed ; then just carried on walking over the bridge , around the Plain , and back again down the High . |
| 2 | Desperately unlucky at Crayford last month , the lightweight bitch has since won over the Leger course . |
| 3 | We all agree to the need for more rational use of insecticides than hitherto , especially in agriculture ; yet insecticides to control mosquitoes are normally applied to the inside walls and roofs of buildings so that , unlike agricultural pesticides , they are not widely dispersed over the landscape but confined within houses . |
| 4 | Er where you 've got a note that obviously goes over a beat as in that one there |
| 5 | She went over to help lift the beams , and then hand new turfs and heather up to Luch , who was light enough to clamber over the roof to mend it without breaking it . |
| 6 | Much modified over the war years , in 1944 a much refined and altered version emerged as the Yak–18 which continued the successful line for many more years . |
| 7 | Having gingerly discarded over a hedge bits of rotted fruit and suspect cheese , I lunched on olives and mineral water in the shade of a great oak wood . |
| 8 | Wayne 's going-out stuff , all hung over the back of his one upright chair , had the definite air of being from another world altogether . |
| 9 | Seven years later , however , Christien has not only got over the pain but has used the experience to make him a better actor . |
| 10 | His mother was in , seated at her kitchen desk and gloomily going over the month 's bills — her Persian lamb coat made the Hudson 's Bay bill look enormous , and , at the rate she was paying it off , it would take until next Easter to clear it . |
| 11 | ‘ The risk of drinkers inadvertently going over the limit is tragically high , ’ the report says . |
| 12 | Wage differentials notwithstanding , the nominal wages of London 's skilled men did not much move over the century until the last decade . |
| 13 | The commander himself is not eligible as a target — he usually keeps his head down and only appears over the rim of his armoured command turret to shoot his weapon . |
| 14 | He could n't understand why they were suddenly running over the sand . |
| 15 | O. segesta Lyman from off Bermuda was thought to differ from O. smitti in having longer , thinner spinelets and rods sparsely distributed over the surface of the disk and the arm spines , particularly the ventral ones , were more rugose . |
| 16 | After lunch , Faye had her nap , which had stretched to two hours now , as she was sleeping poorly at night , and after she woke she usually liked to have Belinda in to chat over the mid-afternoon snack . |
| 17 | I mean this is basically she 's she already books some flats and house a house because self-catering accommodation 's in such short supply because of long lets over the winter . |
| 18 | It was possible to think , as she herself points out , that she had merely tripped over a plug or something ; in fact Ann has an artificial leg . |
| 19 | ‘ You have only to hop over the wall to reach them , supposing their dogs do n't get you . ’ |
| 20 | They 'd all gone over the side , singing Johnny Lydon 's hit ‘ Who Do You Think You Are Kidding , Mr Galtieri , ’ and 98% of them had n't made it to the beaches . |
| 21 | From there to the Watling Street where the Grove pit used to be , straight the way along go over the railway bridge , you know , it 's the turn , well Grove pit was right in there . |
| 22 | As the hacks speculated about the cloud of black smoke that suddenly appeared over the palace roof — it did not mean that no decision had been taken , only that a chimney had caught fire — the President was browsing in his favourite bookshop , Les Arcades , just below The Sunday Telegraph 's Paris office . |
| 23 | He had languidly stretched one arm out and in doing so knocked over the wine bottle . |
| 24 | If we do , and win , will he not merely flee over the Border , and come back with more English ? |
| 25 | Lady Grubb suddenly wept over the magazine on her lap and the finished plate of junket . |
| 26 | I 'd better get over the road |
| 27 | With lights and sounds , the aroma of malt , hops and barley is gently wafted over the audience . |
| 28 | I gather that the match was played at the new centre — little more than a new clay court being put down in an old car park and towering scaffolding stands then being erected around it , rising almost vertically so that it gave the impression of the fans literally hovering over the court . |
| 29 | This can be done by tipping the leading edge up , so that water only flows over the lip when a reasonable quantity is being pumped . |
| 30 | Yet , in the longer term , there can be no doubt that within nuclear expansion , increased coal use and the resurrection of the synfuels programme resides the US 's only chance of reducing imported oil dependence , which will inexorably increase over the rest of the century . |