Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] [noun] over [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll have the larger piece of that cake over there , with extra cream and a large plateful of your extra special greasy chips , ’ said the girl . |
| 2 | Very nice light on these cliffs over here . |
| 3 | There 's a bit of open space over there , let's whack in a colourful what-not ’ . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Amon. aromat. and a wheelchair for that dresser over there . |
| 5 | Europeans tend to favour the entrepreneur who is self-funding ; there is not the same confidence in new ventures over here . ’ |
| 6 | If this request appeals to any club over here , please write to Christine Judd at the above address . |
| 7 | Erm and the I can never remember the name of that road over there . |
| 8 | For example , in the web of agencies which surround the US presidency and make key foreign and defence policy decisions , Domhoff ( 1970 , 1978b ) claims to detect clear evidence of capitalist control over both popular and elite opinion-making agencies , which set the agenda for policy-making . |
| 9 | But delegates ran into difficulties in informal haggling over how to share the cuts . |
| 10 | He also held mining rights in the Hawkshead , and Egton-cum-Newland region , but probably wasted money in fruitless searches over there . |
| 11 | One importer suggested to me that there was a reluctance to start up commercial breeding of these species over here and the reason for this was largely political . |
| 12 | ‘ Can you read the names on those packets over there ? ’ |
| 13 | Frankly , he 's a pain in the arse , but Martinez pays me a handsome amount of money and provides me with a very flashy car , which impresses the likes of young Lindy over there , so who am I to argue ? ’ |
| 14 | The expression I is not of course the only such troublesome feature of English ; the following examples all present us with the same sort of problems ( with the relevant deictic expression italicized , a convention followed throughout this Chapter ) : ( 6 ) You are the mother of Napoleon ( 7 ) This is an eighteenth-century man-trap ( 8 ) Mary is in love with that fellow over there ( 9 ) It is now 12.15 The sentences are true , respectively , just in case the addressee is indeed the mother of Napoleon , the object currently being indicated by the speaker is indeed an eighteenth-century man-trap , Mary is indeed in love with the fellow in the location indicated by the speaker , and at the time of speaking it is indeed 12.15 . |
| 15 | " I 'd like to go for a walk in that park over there , " she said quietly . |
| 16 | But there 's a couple of guys in another division over there that they were quite keen on er aircraft and they spent weeks building these bloody things and then er , and experienced flyer he 'd taken over to the other , other side of the estate when he had a bit of runway over there |
| 17 | I think it has got to stop because apart from anything else it has knock-on consequences for other paediatricians over how strong they are going to feel in dealing with this problem . |
| 18 | ‘ We know Bill 's got a couple of fast boats over there , ’ concedes Conner , a six-time cup veteran . |
| 19 | What do you say to the fathers , and I have had dozens from up and down the country contacting me , what do you say to the fathers like that chap over there in th in the front row , who has handed over sometimes tens of thousands of pounds , he 's done his bit , he 's had it rubber stamped by the court , he 's gone ahead in good faith and made his his his future , and then the Child Support Agency comes along and just without so much as a by your leave pulls the rug . |
| 20 | I am familiar with the components of your personality , true , as I am familiar with the liquors in that cabinet over there , but throwing all the different liquors together at random wo n't make a cocktail , not one that 's palatable to me at least . |
| 21 | But while a majority of informed public opinion , the target of persistent lobbying over so long a period , moved decisively towards outright abolition , fortified by the anomalous decisions resulting from the 1957 Homicide Act , the views of the general public continued to be hostile and mostly out of sympathy with the prevailing climate at Westminster and Whitehall . |
| 22 | ‘ He and another man were putting some barrels into that wagon over there . |
| 23 | See how there are shells exploding almost on the same spot in that field over there . ’ |