Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] over a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ( Because they are stumbling backwards over a precipitation of hasty , inside-out clothes , say . ) |
| 32 | Stamping their hopelessly outsize boots , they trudged in single file out of the gutted , white-stone church and slogged off over a ditch away from the barricade . |
| 33 | Er and it 's a force commitment it is n't I mean short of saving up over a period of years which we are not allowed to do |
| 34 | The special school sector was built up over a century or more . |
| 35 | Another proof is taken and so the print is built up over a period of time . |
| 36 | Strong and sometimes quite intense relationships with individuals are built up over a period of even a few weeks . |
| 37 | Clearly memories are not formed instantaneously , as if by throwing a switch , but are built up over a period of hours after the event to be memorized has occurred ; during this build-up the form in which any memory is stored changes . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | In fact there was a , I think some of the recent erm concerns about schools have come from an image that 's been built up over a period of time that the schools spend very little time on the , on the three Rs for example . |
| 40 | It contains the practical experience of the members of MAS built up over a number of years of carrying out a wide variety of MAS assignments . |
| 41 | So we realize we 're not gon na be here to change the habits that have built up over a lifetime . |
| 42 | Martin Gilfellan had taken the car just a few minutes before the accident and was being followed by the police when he drove straight over a junction . |
| 43 | The cyke came up over a dune , and Mostyn and Cheadle caught it in a crossfire . |
| 44 | Spread out over a lot more acreage and split into two widely separated pavilions , attendance looked sparse and the aisles empty despite show management 's claims of a 10% increase in traffic . |
| 45 | Just finally looking back over a career that spans now five decades , is there anything you 'd have done differently over the years ? |
| 46 | They wash out over a number of shampoos . |
| 47 | But , with a research department reduced by over a half and with the strategic use of a cash cow , the nylon business produced innovation after innovation . |
| 48 | There are still a quarter of a million unemployed people in Scotland who are testimony to the dreadful human misery caused by over a decade of Tory rule and the terminal decline of the UK economy , ’ he said . |
| 49 | The flow meter measurements tell the engineer how much water has moved where over a period of time . |
| 50 | It is thrust northwards over a zone including metasediments with K-Ar dates of 365–345 Ma ( Late Devonian or Early Carboniferous ) . |
| 51 | Twenty , 50 or 100 mg were infused intravenously over a period of 90 minutes . |
| 52 | Values of ΔH vary slowly over a range from 20 to 120 kJ mol -1 . |
| 53 | He said : My impression is that what has been going on over a period of years has come from , or been led by , a small mafia group of MI5 who have contacts outside in one or two sections of the press , and a few self-appointed private enterprise security agents . |
| 54 | After all , mass-produced will always be mass-produced , but the whole point of mass-produced electrics is that you can walk into a store , pick the very best example from a row of several , spend a little money on a great setup , and maybe some pickups , and still save enough over a custom guitar to buy yourself an extremely nice amplifier . |
| 55 | He was clearly not content to sink into idle retirement but was soon full of schemes to open up Hannafore , then reachable only by a path that climbed steeply over a down that fell sharply to the Looe river in a precipitous cliff . |
| 56 | The efficiency of these ingredients wears off over a period of time , and swimming , towel- drying and perspiration can speed up this process . |
| 57 | Even relatively small preferences made year by year by the same committee add up over a decade to a major strategic shift in budget priorities . |
| 58 | The lips were drawn back over a row of small pointed teeth in a ghastly grimace , a shriek of pain or terror . |
| 59 | With David Dimbleby and Peter Sissons occupying curvy command modules jutting out over a sea of computer screens and flashing lights , it seemed rather like a cross between the deck of the Starship Enterprise and an Italian disco . |
| 60 | Hong Kong 's Victoria Harbour is used by over a quarter of a million ships a year . |