Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [verb] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe what we should say at the end of the day is erm just is n't talking about that , he 's on about a completely different subject and we really should n't erm we should n't beat over the head for having a bad theory of the self . |
| 2 | Miss H. K. Todd , of Ramsgate , Kent said : ‘ We should be careful to keep sex in check ’ — clearly suggesting I should n't go over the top with this topic . |
| 3 | You may not knock over the wine , but the person sitting next to you and other members of the audience wo n't listen to your words . |
| 4 | Down at Lucifer 's feet , in front of the stage , a girl with long , black hair stood on tip-toe but still could not see over the heads of the crowd . |
| 5 | When Lord John Russell declared that ‘ the whisper of a faction could not prevail over the voice of a nation ’ , he was appealing to moral principle ; and if , when that appeal was made , it chimed in with political expediency it was only because factious and sometimes unprincipled Tory opposition had made it to do so . |
| 6 | Moreover , in relations between member states , rights and obligations arising from the Convention of 1958 could not prevail over the obligations of member states under the E.E.C . |
| 7 | But , for all the toughness of Knobelsdorf , one may well ask why the Crown Prince , with his unique access to the ear of the All-highest , could not prevail over the views of his Chief-of-Staff ? |
| 8 | I could not get over the kindness of it , his attention . |
| 9 | He could not get over the fact that the only woman who had come through the near-impossible screening , then training , had not been some six foot Amazon with a face like Atilla the Hun — but a petite , feminine five foot three in her stockinged feet , who turned all the men 's head when she passed . |
| 10 | I could not get over the fact that people were giving me the responsibility of telling them how to get me up , and that I could choose what time I went to bed ! |
| 11 | Now on that twenty feet long , now I 'm up about say , you can say anything like about fifteen feet up in the in the air , might be less than that and then you got twenty feet up like that , well then there used to be wire and used to have a big wheel in top , which you could n't go over the top and with a wire , then I used to have a sling chain , my main hook and that was thirteen foot long and you take th that and on , on working on top of the lorry , see you got to be so careful and there 's men working on that lorry as well , course I broke the wheel . |
| 12 | It was jealousy , I suppose ; the fact that I had spotted a chance they had not , although I could n't get over the suspicion that their reaction to me had something to do with how Liza had told the story . |
| 13 | I could n't get over the fact that it was so good . |
| 14 | But my Edna could n't get over the fact that sh she 'd gone through all that |
| 15 | When you beat your olive trees , you shall not go over the boughs again ; it shall be for the sojourner , the fatherless and the widow . |
| 16 | But still the council would n't move over the issue of hiring rooms to us . |
| 17 | ‘ I ca n't explain over the phone . |
| 18 | Can I just say then that I think either it 's got to be blocked completely so they ca n't jump over the bridge , or it 's got to be unblocked . |
| 19 | I ca n't see your house ; I ca n't see who 's having chips in Mario 's ; I ca n't see over the hill to Westlands . |
| 20 | A TRIBE of pygmies has been banned from driving after 37 accidents in Zaire — as they ca n't see over the dashboard . |
| 21 | Now she ca n't see over the weeds . |
| 22 | Mollie ca n't believe her new shape and tells me that her colleagues ca n't get over the transformation either . |
| 23 | I was talking to a friend of mine actually on Monday who is erm parti partially Indian and come from India and from Calcutta and she is high caste but she 's a Catholic as well so she 's her attitude 's different she 's lived in England most of her life but she ca n't get over the attitude of some of her relatives in India to the poor because they 're lower caste . |
| 24 | She ca n't get over the peace . |
| 25 | I still ca n't get over the fact they cancelled my , my booking for last night . |
| 26 | Ca n't get over the size of this though . |
| 27 | I ca n't get over the fact that , that all |
| 28 | I mean , for me personally I think there 's actually a decision that if I ca n't get over the full unbiased impression that I want to make about the whole story , I 've got to make a decision whether I 'm going to talk to you at all . |
| 29 | They just will not go over the bridge . ’ |
| 30 | We will not linger over the fiction of popular representation … let us rather see what is the substance beneath the various forms of power in the governing class . |