Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am puzzling over the dot matrix display board that 's trying to tell me what trains are coming my way . |
| 2 | Erm I 'm ranging over a lot of what for you perhaps is historical material , given your age , but er you 're probably not very familiar erm if you want to ask questions about er detail or whatever please feel free to do so . |
| 3 | We were nearly on the beach and I was looking over the side of the ship . |
| 4 | ‘ I was hit over the head . ’ |
| 5 | I was born over the road . |
| 6 | I can usually pick up a ball with one hand , but as I was laying over the ball , I had to use both hands to pick it up , and already a Cardiff forward was rushing down on me . |
| 7 | One Christmas I was flying over the city of Boston in America it night and I saw the Christmas lights like networks of jewellery flickering through the freezing air ; and hardly ever in my life had I seen anything more dazzling or beautiful . |
| 8 | ‘ Then I was contacted over the phone by a company in Rufford who agreed to sell the car for £50 . |
| 9 | And while I was leaning over the side , Sogono tapped me on the shoulder and said , ‘ How many soldier you kill , Chinaman ? |
| 10 | I was getting over the feeling of rejection instilled into me at St Aubyn 's , which by making me aggressive had deprived me of so much that Eton had to offer . |
| 11 | Eagerly I was bending over the vacuum cleaner . |
| 12 | I 'm not an expert fighter and I did n't know I was going over the top . |
| 13 | It is often argued that survey data give a very limited analysis of managerial policies which are developed over a period to deal with specific problems and this study should help to test such methodological criticisms . |
| 14 | Body shape , when viewed from above , is oval and elliptical for the female , and slim and pencil-like for the male , the male being further enhanced by the white , pimple-like nuptial tubercles which are sprinkled over the gill covers and top of the head . |
| 15 | The outer layer of the skin ( epidermis ) is made up of cells which are shed over a cycle of 28 days . |
| 16 | Any benefit obtained from the issue costs is reflected in the interest expense and hence issue costs are appropriately accounted for as an adjustment to the amount of the liability , which effectively results in their being charged over the life of the instrument . |
| 17 | These references , which were given over the period continually to 1984 , undoubtedly had an effect on the ability of Berg to engage in large scale bill discounting transactions with other banks . ’ |
| 18 | The most popular events were the cycle races which were raced over a mile , 2 miles and 3 miles including handicaps and novice events and finishing with a 3 mile handicap race open to all comers " . |
| 19 | It is not only a question of there being a number of versions for popular plays , such as Doctor Faustus , which were revived over a forty- or fifty-year period resulting in corrupted , revised , or differing texts . |
| 20 | ‘ Then she flew high over the site of Callanish above the men and the fallen bodies of her kind which were scattered over the site . |
| 21 | The second round of the ‘ adidas ’ Challenge tournaments , which were held over the Christmas period , gave a strong indication of the interest and popularity that they have with young players throughout the country . |
| 22 | A retaining wall of loose bricks or stones separate the bog garden from the pool proper and retains the peaty mixture which is placed over a layer of gravel . |
| 23 | We may extend this metaphor further by suggesting that our everyday experience of stress is rather like a tap which is placed over the glass and into which it drips drops of stress . |
| 24 | The Spanish phrygian is also used for the tune 's main theme , as well as the solo section , which is played over the riff shown in fig 1 . |
| 25 | that early intervention is the best way of coping with it , and certainly it demands that parents and friends and teachers , and people concerned are aware of any change which is sustained over a period because by early intervention then you 're probably coping with the problem rather than the eating disorder , because the problem is there before the eating disorder . |
| 26 | The members of the School Boards were more secular in their thinking than the builders of the earlier parish schools , and although some designers used the Gothic style , it was argued that ‘ … a continuation of the semi-ecclesiastical style … would appear to be inappropriate and lacking in anything to mark the great change which is coming over the education of the country ’ . |
| 27 | The second example comes from the growth of EPoSS ( Electronic Point of Sale Scanning ) in retailing , in other words the increasingly common barcode which is passed over a scanning device linked to the cash register . |
| 28 | Each microchip carries a unique code , which can be read using a special scanner which is passed over the area where the chip is implanted . |
| 29 | Right , April , April the tenth to the twelfth , is the , is the National Amnesty A G M which is held over a weekend and this year is in Exeter . |
| 30 | The Party 's policy on Spain had also been radically altered amid the great enthusiasm which was felt over the resistance of the Republican Government . |