Example sentences of "[verb] over for " in BNC.

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1 The third came soon after when flanker Chris Clapcott crashed over for another converted try .
2 Poured on to the plane , alone , Burton was humped for thirteen hours across the Atlantic , assuaged by alcohol ; stopped over for a few drinks in New York and then taken on an eleven-hour trip to Los Angeles which was made tolerable by more alcohol .
3 TELL your friends that you are going to the Cape Verde Islands and , in all probability , their eyes will glaze over for several seconds while they frantically try to recall their long-forgotten school geography .
4 Sometimes his eyes would glaze over for a second or two as if he were out of their world altogether .
5 His eyes clouded over for a moment , and his voice became gruff .
6 Lucy , um , I wondered if you 'd like to come over for dinner sometime , like tonight .
7 ‘ Do you want to come over for dinner sometime ? ’ said Jay , as if it had just occurred to her .
8 Lucy could n't find time to come over for an evening ; the globally significant exhibition was floating on some remote iceberg ; Jeremy had an agent , an opening ; Lucy 's sister was ill and needed her ( Jay recalled Lucy 's exasperated indifference to her sister ) ; the painters were coming .
9 Before returning to England he was asked to persuade Gladstone to come over for the 1878 Yale ‘ commencement ’ but he would plead in vain .
10 They used to come over for the spud-picking and go to Ormskirk and live in a bothy and would come to Scotland Place because there were so many wakes .
11 " Now , I asked you to come over for several reasons .
12 Sixty miles they used to come over for a good evening at those and maybe two principles
13 ‘ I 'm always on the lookout for players who will benefit Derry City and Ian has agreed to come over for a month initially , ’ said Coyle .
14 ‘ I 'm always on the lookout for players who will benefit Derry City and Ian has agreed to come over for a month initially , ’ said Coyle .
15 let's ask him if he wants to come over for dinner cos we do n't have dinner until half four anyway
16 Trinity hit back with a 34th-minute try from David Jones and substitute Paul Round charged over for another touchdown on the hour .
17 Ten points in five crucial second-half minutes changed the complexion , Rod McCall driving over for his first international try , Roebuck converting then adding a penalty .
18 We were delighted to have a distinguished group from Bulawayo fly over for the opening , and some who stayed through the week .
19 Under the high side there was a grey Buick that I had seen Harvey driving and a long black Lincoln Continental that looked like the President of the United States had come over for pizza and beer .
20 Even when Liz had come over for Mr Harding 's funeral , which had taken place just over a year ago , Laura had n't felt able to explain all of the difficulties she had faced .
21 And they must of come over for Christmas dinner .
22 Botha dropped an early goal , Ian Hunter thundered over for an unforgettable try , and Drikus Hattingh scored one for the tourists just before the break .
23 The Thames at Abingdon was barely fishable for the Mick 's Tackle Open with the bottom areas of the March length frozen over for the full 50 yard width .
24 One of the worst winters we had was at the start of the war , in 1940 , when the river was frozen over for six weeks right to the end of March and there was two feet of snow .
25 It would have taken 25 years to complete and required the Thames to be frozen over for about seventeen years , to prevent the river flooding the deep foundations .
26 In 1991 the previous year 's ceiling of 23.65 million b/d was rolled over for another year , but no country quotas were set .
27 When he came back shortly last year he was fast enough to get back to Ruel Fox and let Fox fall over for a penalty .
28 The goalkeeper was well beaten , but as the ball cannoned over for a goal kick and the chance went .
29 He skips over for the bloody
30 I raised with David Ingram at my JAR a matter which I 've been mulling over for a while , arising from my role as Welfare Officer .
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