Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] over the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As to the type of employment the interesting feature that I experienced over the last two to three years as shown is that the inquiry level the type of inquiries has tended to focus on manufacturing and the attraction has been the quality of the work force , that is both in skill and its healthiness you know the liability and there are other issues in there too about where Britain is at these days in terms of immunisation wage levels , but it is the people that are themselves the major attractors so the potential work force in the locality that is the major attractor . |
| 2 | She hopped over the next puddle , then the next . |
| 3 | That was her style in the Falklands and it remained her style in a number of the confrontations that she faced over the next years . |
| 4 | I have not forgotten that strange and distant glimmer on your face after you tipped over the last glass . ’ |
| 5 | The thought had no sooner entered her mind when she tripped over the first slat of the drawbridge and fell to her knees before she could save herself . |
| 6 | Again she went over the first few days of their itinerary in her mind . |
| 7 | There were five barges moored abreast here , and we climbed over the first four , greeting the startled crews as we went . |
| 8 | I reflected that I was sitting there letting her do so on the assumption that those notes would be our reference point for what we did over the next few weeks . |
| 9 | Desert Orchid had often won from worse positions , but he seemed unable to quicken , and was half a length down on his two younger rivals as they landed over the last obstacle . |
| 10 | He bounded over the thirteenth and fourteenth and set off for the Chair , that huge open ditch which forms the biggest obstacle on the course . |
| 11 | He presided over the first of a series of discussions on how the Council could further the cause of integration . |
| 12 | Before the move he had already been planting exotics in the sheltered garden with a slope to the south-west ; an ideal situation for the rare trees he collected over the next twenty years . |
| 13 | These , combined with a particular interest in curative education for children with mental and physical handicaps , he developed over the next eleven years in the course of attachments to children 's hospitals and homes in Austria , Switzerland , and Silesia ( in Germany at that time ) , and , by 1936 , in private practice in Vienna . |
| 14 | And so it continued over the next two years ; more and more presents , each one more costly than the last . |
| 15 | Love , the second round leader , could not maintain the pace he set over the first two rounds and had to settle for a third round 71 . |