Example sentences of "[prep] be over " in BNC.
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| 1 | after being over here about a year . |
| 2 | Someone who trails in on his own faces the possibility of being over the time limit that eliminates him from the race as a whole . |
| 3 | Besides the materialist assertion of the determinacy of being over consciousness this piece equates ‘ social being ’ with the ‘ mode of production ’ . |
| 4 | For the other side of the ‘ protection ’ coin to be wary of is over -protection . |
| 5 | I know they have n't , so that 's the only thing I can think of is over there on er that |
| 6 | Moorish Spain came into being over a period of several hundred years — from the period of the first Moslem conquest in the eighth century , to the eventual re-conquest by Christians from the north of the peninsula in the later part of the thirteenth century . |
| 7 | They have come into being over thousands of years . |
| 8 | The coming into being over the last 30 years of the political communities of Scotland , Wales , women , Afro-Caribbeans , Asians , Muslims , — each of these is premised on a freshly ‘ discovered ’ history of violence . |
| 9 | What we have dreams of , what we have hardly dared to hope , but towards which we were straining all our will and all our strength , was coming into being over there . " |
| 10 | Another area of this Act which I disagree with is over the definition of need . |
| 11 | its got ta be over there somewhere Geoff |
| 12 | I mean eight hours a day , it 's got ta be over the hundred |
| 13 | Got ta be over there |
| 14 | Though she was learning to cope , she was a long way from being over Guido yet . |
| 15 | Typically , the first action he describes was a mistake : the bombing of Freiburg at the beginning of the war by a squadron of the Luftwaffe believing itself to be over Dijon . |
| 16 | The first type tend to be over more mundane matters , with the third being the more serious . |
| 17 | But God is supposed to be over our heads — that is the whole point , he said . |
| 18 | But God is supposed to be over our heads — that is the whole point , he said . |
| 19 | Now that the very first crops are out of the way , most crops would appear to be over the 6.25/ha ( 2.5t/acre ) mark . |
| 20 | It is always best to be over generous with foundations since any cracking which occurs here will immediately cause cracking in the wall itself . |
| 21 | But perhaps I 'm going to be proved to be over innocent in thinking that is a viable approach . |
| 22 | I was entrenched on the top of Eagle 's Piece , with a huge stone under my wheel and the only way out seemed to be over the edge , most humiliating . |
| 23 | An obvious possibility was forsc = frog , but the combination with ‘ enclosure ’ appeared not to be over logical . |
| 24 | Even my most basic pre-set question ( ’ How many people are talking ? ' ) proved to be over their heads , so I rewound the tape and tried again . |
| 25 | As a result of her in fidelity and disloyalty to her country , the child was cursed from birth , rapidly growing to be over six-foot long with a snake 's tail and bat wings , and the head and mane of a black stallion . |
| 26 | Arrange for the centre cable to be over the four centre needles . |
| 27 | In tests by Gloucester trading standards officers , more than 70 per cent of caravans were found to be over the weight limit . |
| 28 | Rendezvous point was to be over the island of Euboea . |
| 29 | Even if one were to concede to McDowell that there could be traffic in simple message types before the Gricean hump , I wish to maintain that one would have to be over the hump ( or at least capable of being in such states as are involved in the hump ) before one 's language could evolve syntactic structure of the kind yielding infinite generative capacity . |
| 30 | Arguments are more likely to be over domestic chores and money , than children or sex ( which caused very few rows indeed — only 11% ) . |