Example sentences of "[vb base] over [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The canal 's over that-a-way , but if we head over towards the old brickworks- ’ She unlocked a huge padlock which fastened the gates . |
| 2 | Change over to the main bed sinker plate . |
| 3 | Recently various writers have drawn attention to the domesticated image of women put over in the mass media , in textbooks and reading books for children , and in school curricula . |
| 4 | In front of the railway station , a second police car ( summoned by a confident Morse as Lewis had driven him from North Oxford ) was now waiting , and the Chief Inspector nodded a perfunctory greeting to the two detective-constables who sat side by side in the front seats as they watched , and awaited , developments ; watched the three men walk over to the twenty-minute waiting-area set aside for those meeting passengers from British Rail journeys — an area where parking cost nothing at all ; watched them as they passed through that area and walked into the main car-park , with the bold notice affording innocent trespassers the clearest warning : |
| 5 | By pushing the sail over to the left-hand side of the board the CE is also moved , causing the board to steer to the right . |
| 6 | The first time I get on , it is often after spending a few hours with them , and I kinda transfer over from the stable door to their backs . ’ |
| 7 | The higher , reasoning brain has handed control over to the instinctive brain . |
| 8 | ( b ) Pay over to the Inland Revenue each month all amounts that should have been deducted from uncertified sub-contractors ' payments . |
| 9 | I go over to the long mirror and have a look . |
| 10 | Ranulf watched his master and the friar go over to the far side of the room . |
| 11 | ‘ You need to hit the ball hard to get out but if you hit it too well , you go over to the other side of the green … |
| 12 | A lot of the tourists go over to the other side of the island , but I 'm afraid we 'll have to save that for another trip when we have more time . ’ |
| 13 | Many of the summary techniques used to describe mortality carry over into the other components of change . |
| 14 | One suspects that it is to demonstrate what the attractions of the famous Museum Island will be when the plan favoured by the Berlin museums supremo Dube but hotly contested by many museum professionals comes to fruition , for Dube has decided that the island is to be dedicated entirely to these archaeological collections , while the fine arts all move over to the western side of the city to more modern museums . |
| 15 | I told you move over to the other side a little bit , you 've got plenty of room at the bottom , start again what 's the , what letter are you doing ? |
| 16 | Sequent could start by offering Pentium upgrades to its current 486 machines and then move over to the new line . |
| 17 | From there , some fibres continue to the superior olivary body on the same side of the brain stem as the stimulated ear but the majority cross over to the olivary body on the opposite side of the brain stem . |
| 18 | The ants initially walk between the two but cross over to the bottom one at the point predicted if the ants are balancing the concentrations measured on either side . |
| 19 | At what point did the Labour Party take over from the Liberal Party as the second party of government ? |
| 20 | There are changes in technology : electronic systems take over from the electromechanical mode typical of ‘ mass culture ’ ( just as that had taken over from the purely mechanical production and distribution methods of the earlier bourgeois period , epitomized by music printing ) . |
| 21 | So I had to drive out past him , pull over to the other side of the road as much as possible to let him come through and the other cars come through , then I could come . |
| 22 | Although these broader issues spill over into the whole question of extending the notion of the sociolinguistic variable into the domain of syntactic analysis , they are relevant to data collection because they often entail difficulties in obtaining sufficient quantities of a specific type of data . |
| 23 | Stretch over to the right — hold for 10 counts . |
| 24 | Stretch over to the left — hold for 5 counts . |
| 25 | Stretch over to the left — hold for 5 counts . |
| 26 | Stretch over to the left — hold for 5 counts . |
| 27 | Stretch over to the left — hold for 5 counts . |
| 28 | Stretch over to the left — hold for 10 counts . |
| 29 | Stretch over to the left — hold for 10 counts . |
| 30 | Stretch over to the left — hold for 10 counts . |