Example sentences of "[vb pp] over [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He imagined gravel being sifted , all the particles , the minute stones , being picked over by some policeman whose job it was to do that , the tiny flints laid in one tray , the wood fragments in another , and then , in a third , the shot . |
| 2 | Maggie could n't help but be won over by this appeal on her mother 's behalf . |
| 3 | In 1991 the previous year 's ceiling of 23.65 million b/d was rolled over for another year , but no country quotas were set . |
| 4 | Fully one-third of the marketable federal debt is rolled over in any year ; half is rolled over every two years . |
| 5 | And I saw that the shed window had been boarded over with some plywood , and the board had a number beneath which was the signature ‘ Popova ’ . |
| 6 | It has spilled over into this tournament because the foreign players have won it . |
| 7 | Today , entire journals are given over to this work . |
| 8 | The last years of his life seem to have been largely given over to this task . |
| 9 | A whole set of disagreements on trade , notably over North American free trade and the GATT , could be smoothed over under that rubric : to be open and unbelligerent on trade is not weak-minded , but is in America 's interests . |
| 10 | But uncertainties are smoothed over by this idealization of a historically and socially specific , juridical concept of power ( Hussain 1981 ) . |
| 11 | Oh well we had no feelings about it because I really was n't an Old Harlow person , nor was my husband and all that we could think about it was that it would be very good for the area , it would erm , bring work and employment and everything like that , but of course Old Harlow people were very , you know , a lot of them were very against it and yet , in the end , the Harlow High Street shops was , made a fortune in those first few years , you know , when there was nothing else and the , the Old Harlow High Street was n't of course paved over in those days , anything like that and it , it was a narrow , narrow high street , it was almost like taking your life in your hands walking down there because there were crowds of people obviously with all this influx of community and they er the main Chelmsford road used to come up through there , so it was a , a hell , sort of a traffic hazard really . |
| 12 | The case was turned over to another policeman with a mean , bony face and narrow eyes . |
| 13 | Remember when cutting the stock material that it must be turned over after each cut to obtain the correct angles on each segment . |
| 14 | Note the Fab domain 1 is flipped over by some 90° with respect to CD2 domain 1 . |
| 15 | Local radio stations in the state capitals were handed over to these states in 1978 , but the same policy did not apply to television . |
| 16 | By the time of Napoleon 's war against Prussia and his defeat of Frederick William III 's armies at Jena and Auerstadt in 1806 , the people of Danzig were far from disloyal to the Prussian cause , far from willing to throw off Prussian rule , lest they be handed over to some form of Polish domination . |
| 17 | 10–17 Jesus violates the taboo against healing on the sabbath by healing a woman who has been bent over for many years , justifying this on the grounds that it is even more urgent to help a fellow human being , a woman , than to rescue an animal that has fallen into a ditch ( an exception allowed under the law ) . |
| 18 | Stone and marble fixtures weighing 400 tonnes from a garden in Boston have been shipped over for this sale . |
| 19 | They had been old German hulks you know ta brought over to this country after the First World War as part of the reparations and they had been finished off in Liverpool and Glasgow somewhere . |
| 20 | 2.27 There must also be a discount for the uncertainties of life : the fact that the deceased might have been run over by another bus on the following day or that he was involved in a particularly hazardous occupation . |
| 21 | But for farmer Charles Peers the amount of straw he can sell is just a fraction of what 's left over after each field is harvested . |
| 22 | I 've still got 300 sets left over from that job lot I got the other Christmas . |
| 23 | Left over from that encounter and resolved later in the session was the eventual agreement by the CNAA to the Course being offered on a mixed mode and part-time basis . |
| 24 | The pulp , or bagasses , left over from this process is then burnt to produce electricity which at present fuels only the distilleries themselves . |
| 25 | Compasses capable of drawing arcs of this size are rare , so I used a thin strip of 7x1mm mahogany I had left over from some modelling , it 's available at most model shops and is excellent stuff , if a trifle expensive . |
| 26 | ‘ No doubt — and we have our old solitary Father Christmas left over from several years ago . ’ |
| 27 | Outside the party the syndicalists had formed a " Left " of the unions and this had been taken over to some extent by the Communist Party of Great Britain , founded in 1920 . |
| 28 | Budapest , Andrassy ut 60 , taken over without any qualms by the AVO from its fascist secret police predecessors . |
| 29 | The major bus undertakings and the UndergrounD railways ( including the Metropolitan ) were also taken over on that day , and the minor bus operators were drawn in one at a time later , but the main line railway companies ( including their suburban services ) were excluded . |
| 30 | It was surely only people of diminished responsibility who found their lives being taken over in this way . |