Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] be over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She played those games — anything to keep the girls children as long as possible and not face up to the fact that she was over the hill . |
| 2 | Whatever the complications may have been , and whatever those theatre nurses may have thought , the fact was that Kirsty had suffered no physical ill-effects once she was over the post-operative period . |
| 3 | Contrary to what some people believe , you do not need to be very rich ; nor for that matter is it too late to start thinking about investing once you are over the age of 55 . |
| 4 | We 've been together eight years now — so we 're over the seven year itch , not that I had one . |
| 5 | Drivers will simply blow into a cigarette-sized tube and if chemical crystals inside turn blue it shows that they are over the limit . |
| 6 | We recruit new customers once they 're over the age of 16 . |
| 7 | Once they were over the shock she was accepted as being a decorative new addition to the team . |
| 8 | He would leave his position once they were over the target and would ‘ talk ’ the pilot over the target before releasing the bombs . |
| 9 | Once they were over the channel , Biggins spoke into the intercom , |
| 10 | While Crawford and Ware were in the cradle , it stayed upright ; once they were over the side , it started tilting . |
| 11 | Warm things are said in the flush of the campaign but now that it 's over the first question the Tories should ask is how it would look to the country if a victorious party launched into a frontal assault on the BBC in the wake of its victory . |
| 12 | Once he was over the edge of extreme fatigue his brain drank up the language by the pint . |
| 13 | The answer is a raspberry , so it 's over the shed , drop down the back , breath held , pulse racing . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll crash in the back of the van for a couple of hours before hitting the road , I 'm too easy a target for the cops in that thing and I 'm over the limit . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been second five times in the last three years and I 'm over the moon to have got home first at last . ’ |
| 16 | Samson yowled , let go , and she was over the back of the counter crouching down , pushing and wriggling through stinking legs and skirts that reeked of an unwashed lifetime . |
| 17 | When Corkill , of Darlington , Co Durham , was stopped by police , the boy was in her car and she was over the drink-drive limit , Teesside magistrates heard . |
| 18 | So if you are dismissed before the agreed age , you might have a claim for breach of contract , but not for unfair dismissal if you are over the normal retiring age for colleagues in your class of work . |
| 19 | If you are over the limit and have goods to declare , keep them at the top of your luggage or in a separate parcel . |
| 20 | I mean you 've got to be careful at the end of the tax year that you 're actually okay on that ground , er but , and you can make a declaration to the revenue if you 're over the limit , it 's just that I mentioned that because some people like a joint account for it to be received into so that they can both spend it basically . |
| 21 | A total of six and a half hours and we were over the small , dying town of Wyndham . |
| 22 | Moreover , older workers lose the right to be protected from unfair dismissal if they are over the ‘ upper age limit ’ ( this may be 65 or it may be whatever is the ‘ normal retiring age ’ for the job the individual holds ) . |
| 23 | A DIY breathalyser will soon be able to tell drivers if they are over the limit — but police say it ca n't be trusted . |
| 24 | It would be better to make the discharge below the level of the grating of the gully even if it was over the gully before , to prevent leaves and garden debris blocking the gully . |
| 25 | ‘ But he 's over the limit . ’ |
| 26 | And he gets about , he did n't say what he got but it 's over the twenty three thousand drawings that er they 're worried about the level of er tax , you know , for the next |
| 27 | But it was over the husband of her closest friend that she grieved most deeply . |
| 28 | And the local authorities also we have government policy again we have the situation that Wage Councils which have agreed increases for our members within the prison service , do n't know whether they 'll be allowed to implement them because they are over the one and a half percent . |
| 29 | He had gone out later that evening not intending to drive but took the wheel when his friend refused to drive because he was over the limit . |
| 30 | It is really not too difficult to wave the reader at a reasonably constant speed while it is over the bar code . |