Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Some stars can be seen that way if the conditions happen to be appropriate , but children will not get very far as astronomers unless their own resources are supplemented by those accumulated by the tradition of astronomy built up over the centuries . |
| 32 | Even though you have checked things over thoroughly , there is always the distinct possibility that something electrical will pack up over the Christmas period . |
| 33 | Bardul uses this chamber to store an amazing range of things which he has picked up over the years in the hope that one day they might be useful . |
| 34 | Although the provision of public housing had been established as a principle in rural areas by 1939 — by itself no mean achievement when one looks back over the history of rural housing — the results of twenty years of legislation were a disappointment . |
| 35 | Nick Clark looks back over the Maxwell era . ) |
| 36 | Mounting a size 8 Green Highlander , John cast out over the stream . |
| 37 | Most trout fishing tackle accessories are available from the well-appointed lodge which is stilted out over the lake beside the car park and rearing ponds . |
| 38 | Those of you who jet off to foreign parts for your hols and fly from Chamden airport , may be interested to know that your flight path probably heads out over The Welfare Field . |
| 39 | Helen had scrambled back over the wall . |
| 40 | When he did , shouting and screaming , they tried to grab hold of him but only succeeded in ripping off his jacket sleeve as he bounced back over the wall . |
| 41 | I mean he 's come out over the top of his own defenders and i over big Ormanroyd and he can do little else but push it back down into the pack . |
| 42 | Beneath the shady colonnades built out over the pavements , fat Chinese stripped to the waist like living Buddhas sat flicking their abaci behind high mounds of fruits , foodstuffs , silks , porcelains , hardware and a dozen other commodities . |
| 43 | There 's also a lounge and TV area and spacious sun terrace , built out over the lake . |
| 44 | These are piers built out over the harbour , and indicate old merchants ' houses , where ships could unload directly into the premises . |
| 45 | Two discias , D. cordata , ‘ Ruby field ’ and D. stachyoïdes sprawl out over the gravel . |
| 46 | Set in the hillside just below the resort 's town centre , the Hotel Miramare looks out over the sea and the lovely bay of Mazzaro Beach . |
| 47 | He stands and looks out over the lights of London . |
| 48 | The hotel Santon looks out over the lake which is this area 's main attraction . |
| 49 | Most of the places he saw were uninhabitable , or required a permit from the Office of Works to make them less so , but a friend of John Hayward told him of some rooms in Carlyle Mansions , a Victorian apartment building along the Chelsea Embankment which looks out over the Thames . |
| 50 | Bill looks out over the pond . |
| 51 | ROS : ( Looks out over the audience ) Rings a bell . |
| 52 | erm This rainforest festival is actually being carried out over the country . |
| 53 | THE first practical testing of a sonar device to help submarines detect the presence of fishing boats in the Firth of Clyde is expected to be carried out over the weekend of 3 April . |
| 54 | The assessment will be carried out over the Christmas and New Year period as a consultancy , reporting to me . |
| 55 | While the course organisers were able to operate in this way in a majority of cases , for a small number of courses which either finished early in the year , or employer.based project work was being carried out over the summer months , organisers posted on the questionnaire on behalf of [ MS . |
| 56 | Mr Paterson said the formal consultation process on permanent closure of Heiton would be carried out over the summer . |
| 57 | More repairs have been carried out over the years — the most recent and probably most rewarding is the cleaning , repointing and replacing of stonework — all done by one of the parishioners . |
| 58 | Mobilisations , deployments and manoeuvres have been carried out over the years to discourage resistance to Communist takeover ( Czechoslovakia 1948 ) , to block undesired contacts with West Berlin ( 19 separate occasions , including two seizures of West Berlin territory ) , to apply pressure in negotiations ( Norway and the Barents Sea ) , and to mask intentions in crisis ( Czechoslovakia 1968 and Poland 1981 ) . |
| 59 | As fast as FAX and having user groups for just about every computer and software product around , it is becoming one of the main channels for passing information around the scientific community for example , much of the debate on Cold Fusion was carried out over the Internet . |
| 60 | Shep , apparently well satisfied , wandered back over the grass and collapsed in a cool patch where an apple tree threw its shade over the grass ; head on paws he waited in comfort for his next victim , |