Example sentences of "[adv prt] over [art] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , remote users can dial in over a modem and access a network 's drives — this is really useful if you have people on the road who need access to office files . |
| 2 | And I have spent all morning saying it can not possibly be true , that you devote all your time to your aunt , that you have scarcely left the house in over a month and all the time you were doing just what you were rumoured to be doing ! |
| 3 | Fog was creeping in over the island and in the distance the deep boom of a foghorn sounded , echoing her own sudden melancholy . |
| 4 | After about two hours flying over the sea , they swung in over the coast and were given a welcoming burst of anti-aircraft fire . |
| 5 | The inquiry has been scaled down over the year as leads have fizzled out . |
| 6 | A long , narrow band of cloud has been moving down over the country and will continue to do so throughout the night before it moves away eastwards tomorrow , being replaced by clear skies to the west . |
| 7 | After the glue has been applied to both edges of each segment and they are assembled , the banding clamp is dropped down over the assembly and tightened until the joints close up tightly . |
| 8 | We were in a car looking down over the Bay and I said I 've got to go out . |
| 9 | A little bit more , just a little bit , and surely she would be able to hang down over the edge and drop gently into the water below . |
| 10 | Drape over , press down over the top and sides , and smooth to fit over the corners before trimming away excess around the base . |
| 11 | We drank the tea squatting in the shade , gazing down over the desert and the river valley . |
| 12 | He reached up for the handle , grasped it , tried to turn it once , failed , tried again and this time dropped face down over the threshold as the door swung open . |
| 13 | Proceedings had been due to resume on Monday next week , but the commission was on standby to travel down over the weekend if necessary if there was an improvement in his client 's health . |
| 14 | my mailing system was down over the weekend and I did not receive any mail . |
| 15 | Turn the top 1.5cm ( ½in ) heading allowance down over the stiffening and tack in place . |
| 16 | ‘ So we 'll keep the long stuff down over the season and see what flowers come up . ’ |
| 17 | It was fastened tightly on to the right horn , so it dangled down over the cheek and eye . |
| 18 | Gunga drove off over the bridge as I looked around for a suitable spot to get some practice in . |
| 19 | Bluebeard 's castle , it was , or Mr Fox 's manor house with ‘ Be bold , be bold but not too bold ’ written up over every lintel and chopped up corpses neatly piled in all the wardrobes and airing cupboards , on top of the sheets and pillowslips . |
| 20 | The special school sector was built up over a century or more . |
| 21 | it is n't necessary , well it is the same as saying it is n't true , it is n't necessary er because this will be built up over a period and it will be for er the Government in all the normal ways in the public expenditure round to decide how much goes into the passenger franchises and through that therefore into the Briti the Rail Track investment . |
| 22 | I cut off the path proper and charged up over a dune and down its other side to where the service pipe carrying the water and electricity to the house appears out of the sand and crosses the creek . |
| 23 | On a wet winter 's day when the sea is at its roughest , the sight of the waves pounding against the bottom of the cliffs , throwing spray up over the top and into the fields , is breathtaking . |
| 24 | Jet up over the top and attach your safety line to the Bridge , then abseil across the top of the Lift when you 've matched spin . |
| 25 | I got up and walked quickly out of the coffee shop , up over the footbridge and on to the other platform — jumping on to the train just as it was about to go . |
| 26 | " Well , unless I 'm very much mistaken , " more help " has hove up over the horizon as you might say . |
| 27 | Police Court trials usually included a miscellaneous collection of well-known ne'er-do-wells picked up over the weekend and arraigned on Monday morning to face drunk and disorderly charges . |
| 28 | The Rosses remained tied up over the weekend until discovered by their daily on Monday . |
| 29 | The sun is well up over the water before they let each other sleep . |
| 30 | An elegant BMW drew up over the road and Fatimah Bankhead , the chain-smoking Islamic feminist , stepped out . |