Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ECJ has rather wavered over the issue in relation to the Transfers Directive . |
| 2 | Desperately unlucky at Crayford last month , the lightweight bitch has since won over the Leger course . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The scale of the disaster which has slowly emerged over the past four days has shaken those who are working to tackle the crisis . |
| 5 | really answer the first part of the Noble Lord 's question by saying that er er it is a question of future cost , er we are er we are already spending a great deal of money on the first part er of this er library and er we will have to examine the future cost very carefully and I put it to you to the Noble Lord that it would be a really sad reflection where the field of creative endeavour in which this country is m has most excelled over the centuries , in other words literature to have no single focus for celebration , preservation and active use , it really is er very important that this library continues , but may I remind Your Lordships also that we 're not talking about the s the library in this question , we 're talking about the u the site at present used by the builders . |
| 6 | It is a condition that has so worsened over the years that I no longer dare perform introductions I simply mumble ’ You two must know each other ’ and leave them to sort it out . |
| 7 | The site , near modern Kerma , has been known since the 1920s but the city underneath has only emerged over the last ten years . |
| 8 | This is not the result of patients being ‘ switched ’ into a different mental health category since the incidence of other types of illness has not increased over the same period . |
| 9 | The need for it has reduced but has not vanished over the past twenty years . |
| 10 | The terminal checks with the bank 's computer that the number corresponds with the card , and that the customer has not spent over the limit of £200 that day . |
| 11 | Man 's basic need has not changed over the five centuries that this book covers . |
| 12 | The litany of complaints , in particular the bureaucratic inertia of the various tiers of government , has not changed over the past quarter century ; yet much has been done , both by foreign and Italian committees . |
| 13 | Harry , who lives in Earlstone House , a residential home in Coniscliffe Road , believes cricket has not changed over the years . |
| 14 | Although there has been some shift in the 1980s to the political right in the United States and West Germany , the socialist share of the vote has hardly changed over the two decades in Austria , Scandinavia , West Germany , and Italy . |
| 15 | The proportion of old people living in cold homes has hardly changed over the last 20 years despite improvements in living conditions , a report shows . |
| 16 | The birth rate in many African countries has also fallen over the past decade . |
| 17 | Those waiting to see whether Edwards or Tony Myler gets the stand-off shirt must likewise wait a little longer , and Reilly has also prevaricated over the choice between Alan Tait and Steve Hampson at full-back , though neither player is injured . |
| 18 | And the rate of deaths , the number per one thousand live births , has also dropped over the same period , from 2.30 in 1988 to 1.44 in 1991 . |
| 19 | This was at a time when British opinion was becoming evenly divided over the pros and cons of seeking prominence on the global stage . |
| 20 | And things like writing leaflets in a way you know that comes up in meetings we 'd better write a leaflet and the response usually 's , Oh n gosh we ca n't do things like that you know , we ca n't speak in public , we ca n't write leaflets and in fact we do you know we find ourselves achieving these things and and I mean I think men really their attitude has really changed over the months . |
| 21 | All car production has now gone over the road to what was the Body plant . |
| 22 | A wall of silence has now descended over the key players . |
| 23 | This class has now moved over the Thames to Marlow BUCKINGHAMSHIRE — 80 year old Bar Thompson , one of the original members , still attends today . |
| 24 | Sybil still has n't got over the shock — and do n't you go insulting my family . |
| 25 | She sits stunned , as if she was dragged out the same water , half-drowned , an hour ago and has n't got over the cold . |
| 26 | He has n't got over the shock yet . |
| 27 | He has n't got over the shock yet . |
| 28 | On the face of it , it is hardly promising that the soft left has immediately split over the post of deputy . |
| 29 | Outside the state apparatuses public opinion was becoming increasingly polarized over the contentious issue of greater state powers . |
| 30 | There can be little doubt that , in terms of property development , the LDDC has indeed presided over a dramatic transformation in London 's Docklands . |