Example sentences of "be over [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The days of lavish entertainment are over for the Harcourt Family .
2 Now that exhibitions are over for the season , all they need is seed and water .
3 Patrick , so he told Franca , had been over to the flat at Victoria and had had a ‘ talk ’ with Marcus .
4 Secondly , a while ago I mentioned that a guy called Alan Byrne had been over for a trial , in Elland Road , from Shamrock Rovers in Dublin .
5 At the first , a middle-aged woman with an enormous bosom was digging a fork into a plate of salad with the precision of an accountant jabbing at his calculator , before transferring the accumulated forkful up to her rapidly masticating jaws ; and Morse knew that if he had married her , it would all have been over within the week .
6 They almost , almost be over to the window , saying , look at those minus three cars
7 Ragged children wearing a semblance of black and white uniform skip along the pavements on their way to school ; by midday their schooling will be over for the day and they will start work alongside their parents , or engage in various enterprises from shoe shining to the selling of postcards .
8 Then he had added , ‘ I 'll be over at the factory if you need me before then .
9 I 'll be over at the Gloucester Docks to do my bit …
10 I would pen them in a corner and the job would be over in no time .
11 not , which , one which would not be over in a year and a half .
12 Stand up yeah be over in a minute I 'll do it I 'll
13 Some very optimistic people thought that the war would be over in a couple of weeks and these hopes were reinforced when news came of the invasion of Normandy .
14 just chatting with some of my mates , you know , oh it 'll be over in a couple of weeks .
15 He was confident that the war would be over in a week or two .
16 A grateful stock market was apparently convinced that the war would be over in a matter of hours , and so the Dow Jones roared to a 114-point gain .
17 Everyone thought the war would be over in a matter of months .
18 It will all be over in a matter of hours ; an unimaginably horrible episode , but hardly a war .
19 I am convinced it will be over in a matter of months .
20 When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 , Mussolini thought the war would be over in a matter of weeks , and so that he could claim a share of the spoils for Italy he offered to send troops to the Russian front .
21 ‘ Stay here , ’ she told Nina , letting her hand go , ‘ this will be over in a moment . ’
22 The change has been a major exercise , and while the civil war may not be over in the eyes of the excise collectors , the next issue of Guinness Today will carry the story of the people behind the massive change to End Product Duty .
23 He told them we knew all about it , and said we 'd be over in the morning .
24 This visit from the 416th Bomb Wing will be over by the end of the week .
25 All the sex would be over by the time Gina came back .
26 It would all be over by the time he got there !
27 Many of the meetings listed on that page will be over by the time this gets to you but the details are given as a way of providing a background of work in progress and ideas for future programmes for all the groups .
28 So when people gather round the manger with wonder and puzzlement , I 'm over in the corner looking at the cows .
29 Some locomotives such as the three Class 55's , one example only worked on one day , with the importance being over to the BR hired fleet .
30 ‘ But I saw your husband come into the tent while you were over at the tombola , ’ Mrs Doran said to Mrs Yardley .
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