Example sentences of "[be] over [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , when the forty days of mourning a death are over and the women in the family who have foregone food or combing their hair can start a normal life again , it is their female friends and sisters who cook for them and comb and oil their hair . |
| 2 | Normally , financial troubles and scandals around money visit players late in their lives , when their playing days are over and they are rehabilitating themselves back into the real world . |
| 3 | My brave days are over and I now ride for relaxation rather than a fall . |
| 4 | the rains are over and gone . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ My Olympics are over and now I intend to clear my name . |
| 6 | It 's a warm May evening , the exams are over and everybody 's partying . |
| 7 | The ‘ let it rip ’ days of Nicholas Ridley are over and a new package of environmentally-sensitive planning policies ( 2 ) has been put in its place , thanks to campaigning groups like CPRW . ’ |
| 8 | It possesses no clear Coda , no signal that the events of the narrative are over and the narrator is , so to speak , giving up the floor . |
| 9 | The long summer holidays are over and MPs returned to the Commons to take stock of developments while they were at the seaside . |
| 10 | The modelling of the subjects is very natural , and the lighting-spread is such that performers can move about in reasonable freedom without running into areas which are over or underlit . |
| 11 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 12 | Lyn and I have been over and over it to see if there was anything we could have done but that kind of abuse gives very few signs . |
| 13 | ‘ And since it 's been over and finished with for a long time , there does n't seem any point in discussing it , especially right now . |
| 14 | I 've been over and she did n't give me one . |
| 15 | They 're over and done with . |
| 16 | It would never be over but Rose 's place in the house could never be attacked or threatened again . |
| 17 | Your student days at Nottingham may be over but your links with the University are just beginning . |
| 18 | Please , God , I want it to be over but I do n't want the ending . |
| 19 | She was always eager for her turn on the catwalk to be over but tonight she breathed an audible sigh of relief as the show ended . |
| 20 | The recession may not yet be over but , with repossessions stable , house sales may take off again . |
| 21 | But a case which is of enormous embarrassment to sport may not yet be over and the International Amateur Athletic Federation might not regard the matter as closed . |
| 22 | DEAN JONES fears his Test career may be over and he may quit Australian cricket . |
| 23 | One part of Joe was telling him he had already gone off his head , but another section kept repeating , ‘ It 'll soon be over and then you can tell her . |
| 24 | Before the two teams take the stage at HQ , the league programme will be over and if Orrell keep up their current good form they will win the Championship . |
| 25 | The cold war may be over and dead , but spooks still rule OK — the US Central Intelligence Agency has warned more than 70 US defence , aerospace and financial companies that their industrial secrets are targets of French intelligence agents and diplomats , Defense Week reports , adding that the warning has caused Hughes Aircraft Co to drop plans to exhibit aerospace equipment at the Paris Air Show in June ; a 21-page French government document from about 1990 outlines US aerospace and defence corporate secrets in which French companies are interested , US officials say ; according to the Washington Post , Hughes officials said they were told one item the French memo lists is Hughes ' HS601 communications satellite ; French firms recently outbid Hughes to provide $258m in communications birds to Arab lands . |
| 26 | Heavy rain had prevented an ; y play on the first day at Old Trafford , and though high scores were not expected when play got under way on the second day , few people could reasonably have expected that the contest would be over and done with in one day . |
| 27 | Once inside he left her in a dim , dingy room where she sat with her bundle and the firm belief that the cruel joke would soon be over and she 'd be taken back to her ward . |
| 28 | Time consuming and costly negotiations on pay settlements can be over and done with in hours instead of weeks , as each proposal is fed into the model and the implications displayed immediately for further discussion . |
| 29 | Soon her ordeal would be over and she vowed it was the first and last time she would act as model . |
| 30 | ‘ Never mind , boy , it 'll soon all be over and you can be comfortable again . ’ |