Example sentences of "[vb pp] over [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | M. Dupont had not once looked over in Mr Lewis 's direction during the course of this speech , and indeed , once the company had toasted his lordship and were seated again , all those present seemed to be studiously avoiding looking towards the American gentleman . |
| 2 | Paul Shipton is doing the initial writing , and his manuscript will be looked over by Tom Hutchinson before being finalized . |
| 3 | Two of us in a great mass of strangers , and various things to do that you 've got to get right , like follow signs and collect your luggage ; then you get looked over by the customs , and no-one particularly cares who you are or what you 're doing there so the two of you have to keep one another cheerful … |
| 4 | She tried telling herself that he was just another idle aristocratic adventurer ; she had been looked over by several of the type and others of lesser breeding during her ten years in the public eye at the Fish . |
| 5 | Yes thank you , a few things from our point of view is er three point eight , I 'm sure the policy will be well looked over by our friend , comments by members have to make please . |
| 6 | That car could not have tipped over of itself . |
| 7 | He failed to release in time to prevent the towplane from being tipped over into the ground . |
| 8 | Iraq , a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty , appears to have managed to divert nuclear materials to bomb-making despite regular safeguard inspections , but the treaty has been a success on the whole — as indeed has been the complex structure of hot-line , surveillance and negotiation which has ensured that the East-West ‘ balance of terror ’ never tipped over into nuclear war : |
| 9 | His shot hit the upright but Swindon , encouraged , at last began to make an impression and Bolton survived a narrow squeak as Simpson 's powerful effort was tipped over by a leaping Felgate . |
| 10 | Clive Allen missed one great chance six minutes before half-time when his snap shot from inside the box , following a superb pass by Julian Dicks , was brilliantly tipped over by Bees ' keeper Graham Benstead . |
| 11 | Leaburn rose above the blue shirts but his header was tipped over by Leicester keeper Carl Muggleton . |
| 12 | And they almost went in front on eight minutes , Michael Surgeon beating the Comrades ' off-side trap only to see his well struck 20-yard drive brilliantly tipped over by 'keeper George Cathcart . |
| 13 | Some sociologists have researched ‘ counter school ’ youth cultures , and how they are naturally carried over onto the shopfloor . |
| 14 | Fierce local loyalties and rivalries were the life-blood of the amateur football leagues just as they had been in parish recreations a century before , and this carried over into commercial spectator sport , which offered a new kind of community life and identity . |
| 15 | All that is learnt must be carried over into real-life situations , so training of parents is very important ( see section on ‘ Groups in the Institute ’ ) . |
| 16 | But video installation calls the viewer into spatial relationship with the object , a relationship carried over into a sculptural understanding of even single monitor works . |
| 17 | Such attitudes were far removed from the world of the fictional Sir Joseph Bowlem in Dickens 's Chimes short story who boasted ‘ I allow nothing to be carried over into the New Year ; every description of account is settled in this house at the close of the old one ’ , and the real life employee of Manders the Wolverhampton paintmakers who scribbled on the flyleaf of a 1896 catalogue : |
| 18 | St Joseph 's church at Crofton is retained , and elements of the two churches which have been replaced are carried over into the new one . |
| 19 | The principle of counting to ensure pastoral care and effective deployment of manpower is carried over into the New Testament . |
| 20 | This policy was to be carried over into the post-independence period . |
| 21 | As Bellamy says , ‘ East St. Louis , Belleville , the chip on the shoulder , the bond with mother and grandmother that carried over into his career , the move to the West Coast … what emerged was a great player and one of the toughest , roughest competitors the game has ever known ’ . |
| 22 | Differences in lifetime economic and employment status are carried over into retirement through private asset ownership , and these differences have possibly not diminished significantly . |
| 23 | The grammar of English is carried over into the signing and presumably evaluation of the adequacy of BSL is based on the ease with which it can be fitted to this English format . |
| 24 | The war had required a high degree of economic planning , much of which was carried over into peacetime . |
| 25 | Whatever claims for the English language he may wish to make from a supposedly technical , linguistic perspective , he can not assume that attributing ‘ objectivity ’ to it is unproblematic , or that the meaning attributed to it within that sub-culture can safely be carried over into cross-cultural correlations with the features of certain languages and grammars . |
| 26 | Now , thanks in no small measure to his own contribution to the Hampshire cause , he has one ; and the only disappointment is that the climax of the match was watched by only about 8000 people , as the weather caused it to be carried over into the second day . |
| 27 | These features profoundly affected the shape and priorities of the new scheme , although not all were carried over into it . |
| 28 | Furthermore , this ‘ coolness ’ is carried over into a somewhat dull performance of the final movement Precipitato — I can certainly think of several lesser mortals who bring a greater degree of excitement to the music than does Gavrilov . |
| 29 | A " feeling of knowing " sometimes accompanies an aspect of the dream which is carried over into wakefulness ( for instance the certainty that I could fly when I had my flying dream ) . |
| 30 | The interest in the one form of expression can be carried over into the other . |