Example sentences of "over and [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here is Tufnell coming up again , bowls over and outside the off stump , and that one goes to Robin Smith , and he 's hit somewhere on the boot and ricochets off down the pitch . |
| 2 | Erm your statement of purpose you , you er you , you gave over and at that point , you know , I 've had a policy for thirteen years or whatever it is why , why I have n't seen somebody before erm and again you , you gave an answer to that erm which , which actually satisfied there was n't any , any comeback on it erm you mentioned industry and so on and that was , that was , that was f that was okay . |
| 3 | A very gallant gentleman at the next table came over and for no particular reason , kissed my hand ! |
| 4 | Soon it would all be over and for the water sport enthusiasts , this was the final opportunity to ride the crest of the wave until the next bore in March . |
| 5 | This is when agape love takes over and with our will we continue to show forth acts of love , doing what is best for our partner whether they deserve or respond to it or not . |
| 6 | Azar called me over and with a flourish sat me down on a plastic deckchair at the front of the ring of spectators . |
| 7 | The additional exercises certainly led to a greater use of patterns made by the dancers rolling or posturing over and on the floor . |
| 8 | Hundreds of privately owned aircraft at Tamiami Airport were blown over and on top of each other , a parked DC–6 disappeared completely and was found over a mile away from its tie-down point on the Airport . |
| 9 | Well then , also at dusk , of course , the other thing that made us more tired than ever , the Air Raid siren used to go off at night , so then the oil rooms are checked , and you can hear it going over , and you know how the German planes used to go , but you could hear it going over and of course in that black-out then , they used to in the moon light bright along the river Severn , we used to hear them going over and we used to think ’ Are they going to Bristol tonight , or Birmingham or Buckingham ; whether you 'd want to know ’ . |
| 10 | He described One journey to the source of the James River in 1738 in a letter to Collinson , ‘ … over and between the mountains in many very crooked turnings and windings ; in which I travelled 1,100 miles in five weeks , having rested but one day in all that time … |
| 11 | This time the iridescence , when it came , was almost bright , and fixed in his head the magic of her crotch , his fingers sliding over and between her labia . |
| 12 | Lachlan heard rehearsed over and over his rages and violence . |
| 13 | Over and over the one phrase would go . |
| 14 | This sometimes takes the form of one or more anticipatory subordinate clauses before the verb of the main ( superordinate ) clause , as in this section of ( 2 ) : " and , at once pressing and gliding , repeated over and over The common occurrence of parenthetic structures can also be noted : " somewhat grimly " ( 6 ) ; " tapping her left side familiarly " ( 9 ) ; " then at Nice " ( 11 ) . |
| 15 | All the time I was attempting to identify by ear bird noises in the spinney : a jay screeched raucously ; ‘ My toe hurts Betty , ’ crooned a wood pigeon ; a tiny wren ticked its loud emphatic alarm notes ; and over and over a willow warbler trilled . |
| 16 | At first there was a lack of trust between us : I thought they were not trying hard enough as we went over and over the same issues ; they thought I was trying to take over . |
| 17 | Over and over the events of the day I go , vainly searching for where I went wrong … |
| 18 | I was sticky with mud , and my mind kept going over and over the extraordinary events of the afternoon and evening . |
| 19 | She went over and over the last time she had seen him . |
| 20 | He heard a pigeon going over and over its announcement with that bounce at the end which sent it always back to the beginning again — coo coooo cou-cou ; coo cooo cou-cou . |
| 21 | It was n't until later , when Robyn heard Anne 's key in the lock , that she realised just how long she had been staring into space , miserably going over and over the disastrous weekend , in a futile attempt to try and put it all back into some sort of perspective . |
| 22 | She could almost touch him now , but he was frowning , running his finger over and over the Paisley pattern on the corner of the duvet that overlapped the sill . |
| 23 | He had been wakeful all night , gnawing over and over the tangle of his doubts and fears , and unable to worry his way through them to any certain hope . |
| 24 | For Jay , many things in life had been easy , a walk-over , ; she had leapt over and through the academic hurdles and hoops of childhood and teenage with a lazy facility that she only realised later . |
| 25 | progress was occasionally slow but the big driver was coaxing the big wheels gently over and through the snow . |
| 26 | Boswell is the one who tells us the legend of the seahorse from the lakes who devoured a man 's daughter , and was eventually trapped by the lure of a sow on a spit ; from Boswell we learn that of the hundred-strong little army the Laird of Raasay mustered , eighty-six came back from Culloden ; Boswell chronicles the ash and plane trees , the limestone rocks , the caves and their stalactites , the black cattle , the plover , the pigeons and blackcock , the rainfall , nine months in a year , the juniper , the peat , the belief in the existence of a gold mine , and the women wawking or waulking the tweed , a tedious operation where the tweed is rubbed over and through water in order to shrink and thicken it ( in the outer Hebrides they add their own urine to the vat , although Bozzie missed that one ) , and the women sang a worksong to accompany the rhythmic labour , and did not succeed in drowning out Johnson 's deep voice as he asked them questions . |
| 27 | Repayment started in 1946 , initially only to men aged 65 or over and to women aged 60 or over , but the conditions for claiming varied over the years until 1972 when it was announced that there would be a ‘ general release ’ and that all credits were to be repaid without any further restrictions . |
| 28 | They had in fact been reported missing as early as 1952 , well before Lydie Huyghe took over and to everyone 's embarrassment were found in a cupboard in a corridor during the latest inventory . |
| 29 | If the D6 roll is more than the distance you have veered away then the Doom Diver has over compensated and the template is moved over and beyond the target the full distance roll . |
| 30 | but it is primary evidence and I think as primary evidence it has an extra value to the child 's records , and to the school 's records , over and beyond what |