Example sentences of "[vb pp] over [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of us in a great mass of strangers , and various things to do that you 've got to get right , like follow signs and collect your luggage ; then you get looked over by the customs , and no-one particularly cares who you are or what you 're doing there so the two of you have to keep one another cheerful … |
| 2 | He failed to release in time to prevent the towplane from being tipped over into the ground . |
| 3 | Some sociologists have researched ‘ counter school ’ youth cultures , and how they are naturally carried over onto the shopfloor . |
| 4 | The grammar of English is carried over into the signing and presumably evaluation of the adequacy of BSL is based on the ease with which it can be fitted to this English format . |
| 5 | The interest in the one form of expression can be carried over into the other . |
| 6 | It was part of the Greek conception of reason , after all , that reason was not just a purely intellectual affair but carried over into the life-world , with considerable practical implications . |
| 7 | Further , some at least of the influential individuals in a community may operate outside the field of industrial relations : drawing on the work of Blauner ( 1960 ) , Bulmer suggests that the strong occupational communities characteristic of mining settlements occur because the social relations forged in the workplace are carried over into the arenas of non-work activity , creating overlapping primary group affiliations in which |
| 8 | When night fell we were appalled to find that the same principle had been carried over to the highway . |
| 9 | a widow is the first line of a paragraph left alone at the foot of a page and an orphan is the last line of a paragraph carried over to the top of a new page . |
| 10 | So too his message of the coming kingdom can not be lifted out and carried over to the present : that message was refuted when Jesus himself attempted to provoke the intervention of God and bring about the end of history by challenging the powers and authorities of his own day . |
| 11 | This division of the sky was eventually carried over to the division of the circle and so led to our present habit of dividing the complete ( two-dimensional ) angle around a point into 360 degrees . |
| 12 | The battle for political supremacy was thus carried over to the Congress itself . |
| 13 | It 's a pity this finish quality is n't carried over to the fingerboard , an area of a budget guitar which often lets it down . |
| 14 | Any tasks not completed by the due date on the ‘ to do list ’ can be automatically carried over to the reminders list , a facility I found to be very useful . |
| 15 | Any tasks not completed by the due date on the ‘ to do list ’ can be automatically carried over to the reminders list , a facility I found to be very useful . |
| 16 | They are sometimes acidic to neutralise any alkaline residues carried over from the washing process and sometimes include disinfectants . |
| 17 | Curiously , he was not deported , a sentence which in the two years immediately after the war was handed down to at least fifty young people who had come over on the Kindertransporte . |
| 18 | Five or six young boys had come over to the fire with some scraps of meat and sections of cleaned intestine that they skewered with s ticks and laid on the embers to roast . |
| 19 | He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post . |
| 20 | She had come over from the east with her Arab mother , who , once in Britain , had married a stranger in order to stay — rather like buying a spare part to save one 's life . |
| 21 | That 's why I 've come over from the States , ’ Howard said . |
| 22 | Each month 's results are picked over in the business 's board meeting , with a head-office manager present in a non-executive role . |
| 23 | Nothing that the Minister has said today convinces me that his heart and his mind have been won over to the case for a funding council . |
| 24 | Gradually Congress was won over to the need for tax increases and cuts in public expenditure . |
| 25 | If the assault proved successful , Egypt would no longer be vulnerable to attack ( the Turks had already sent a force to attempt to seize the Suez Canal ) and Turkey 's traditional enemies in the Balkans might be won over to the Allies . |
| 26 | The Government needed control over the media , or to have that control in reserve , not only in order to prevent such support of minority interests but also to ensure that the vitally important class of entrepreneurs and middle-level professional executive people — whose loyalty was vital to the success of any government policy — should be won over to the cause or , at the very least , not be encouraged to oppose government policies . |
| 27 | Preston 's playing is so vivacious , his enthusiasm for the music so stimulating and his obvious enjoyment in playing this marvellous instrument ( which the DG engineers have recorded with something well into the demonstration category ) so infectious that I doubt even the most dyed-in-the-wool hater of organ music could fail to be won over to the cause . |
| 28 | Dexter found the effect comforting rather than disconcerting : he had been won over by the man 's charm . |
| 29 | Even those of us in the office who had their doubts at first were soon won over by the instrument 's simplicity and friendliness . |
| 30 | And the chairman was won over by the manager 's charm , powerful persuasiveness and dynamism . |