Example sentences of "[conj] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the ball is short of the service line or over the baseline , then the rally ceases . |
| 2 | We had a good field of fire all round in case the enemy came out of the sunken road or over the hedge . |
| 3 | She had been continually up the spout , or over the moon , about someone or something . |
| 4 | The greenery-yallery mush makes a terrific flavour to smear under or over the skin of poultry , in which to steam or microwave fish or to marinate prawns before grilling . |
| 5 | Perhaps it is this very ‘ emptiness ’ which appeals to many clients , for they can strip their advertisements over the aquamarine seas , or over the azure of skies , so that our subliminal minds will equate the goods they offer with the freshness of unspoiled paradise . |
| 6 | Ash liked his characters at or over the edge of madness , constructing systems of belief and survival from the fragments of experience available to them . |
| 7 | This raises public awareness and the press is always interested in hard statistics ; so if you can say several hundred people signed the petition in an afternoon or over the course of a few days it will undoubtedly earn you publicity . |
| 8 | There will be a range of thermal beard extensions which will simply clip on to or over the existing facial fur , providing the customer with that little bit of extra insulation . |
| 9 | The cost is very reasonable starting at around £30 , and the course can be completed in a day , either during the week or over the weekend , in safe flat water conditions . |
| 10 | The M4 motorway and A34 trunk road make Didcot easily accessible by car and coach or you can choose a scenic drive down the Thames Valley or over the Berkshire Downs . |
| 11 | This did happen frequently for a variety of reasons , but it was usually because of a worsening of weather conditions either at home base or over the target area . |
| 12 | Conversely , any child whose weight is on or over the ninety-seventh centile is seriously overweight . |
| 13 | I tend to have a fairly light touch , often only skimming across the surface of the paper , or over the top of previously applied colours . |
| 14 | A more likely explanation is that , seeing that the Germans had vanished overnight from the field of Gumbinnen he judged his outnumbered foe to be in full retreat , either to the fortress city of Konigsberg or over the Vistula . |
| 15 | Future Perfect aims to help people approaching or over the age of 50 deal with the transition from their main career by pointing them in the direction of new opportunities . |
| 16 | Not by letter or over the phone . ’ |
| 17 | In probing the sources of undeserved distress they generally look outwards to the people across the valley , or over the hill . |
| 18 | After weeks of discussion , the sides failed to agree terms , either over the crown of France or over the lands to be held by the English , and under what conditions . |
| 19 | Many talks fail because speakers talk down or over the heads of their audience . |
| 20 | I have already mentioned two ways by which it is possible to travel eastwards out of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port and into the Mauléon valley , both of them remote and somewhat tortuous : the mountain roads through Ahusquy or over the Col Bagargui a little further south . |
| 21 | But now you have to begin at the other end and tell the story in a straight run through the eyes , or over the shoulder , of the " detective " figure . |
| 22 | But can you think of anybody for yourself who you could think of who over the recently or over the in the past few centuries or closer to home have shown the gifts of the Holy Spirit in their lives ? |
| 23 | I did n't want to say that to you in a letter or over the phone . ’ |
| 24 | Possibly the test is , ‘ Can it be inferred from the facts of the particular case that the occupier had such control over the licensee or over the circumstances which made his act possible that he ought to have prevented it ? |
| 25 | Text comes in either from our own word processing systems , on disk from various sources or over the Telecom Gold Email service . |
| 26 | They continued along the walkway , the members of the delegation peering towards the cells or over the rails every so often . |
| 27 | Constance frequently reiterated that she would never buy anything that had belonged to somebody else , that meant something to them , that had been warm against their skin or over the fireplace : only brand-new articles , the stuff of commerce in transit between factory and store , the owners of which already had more money than was good for them and were themselves no better than they should be . |
| 28 | I might even be able to think of a n interesting way to make a larger profit that I would by tamely handing or over the Fraxillians . |
| 29 | He used to go He came up when he would go from Blair and he would come up our glen and he would maybe walk over the hill to Braemar , or over the hill to Clover I suppose . |
| 30 | They came from the big houses down the loch or over the pass towards Loch Lomond , or the castle at Inverary , from miles and miles , little girls in furred and caped coats and dresses gathered into heavy bows behind the cascades of ringlets . |