Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you work out how much you would have spent in the bar , clubbing or eating out over the weekend and subtract it from the cost of the trip it all seems cheaper than ever . |
| 2 | If you start to choke on something , put your fist into the soft spot under the middle of the ribcage and keeping ‘ punching ’ yourself , or bend forwards over the back of a chair and bounce your abdomen off it . |
| 3 | Now it 's not immediately obvious from that time series that there 's a structural break , right , textile consumption has n't fallen dramatically , right , or risen dramatically over the post war period , oh sorry du during the er the war period . |
| 4 | For instance , in a group of patients with rheumatoid and osteoarthritis who were treated with an elimination diet followed by a wheat-free diet , cervical reintegration and the green-lipped mussel preparation , Seatone , significant and often dramatic improvements were obtained in a fortnight of an order similar to , or better than , those obtained by either homoeopathy or Seatone alone over a period of three to six months . |
| 5 | He owed his life to Corbett who had saved him from a choking death at Tyburn , yet Corbett was still mysterious ; working constantly , his only pleasure being the flute , some manuscript or sitting quietly over a cup of wine brooding about life . |
| 6 | Even with all the other general fund-raising that goes on over the year , it is pleasing that you still run or participate in events that are specifically for the Society ; we have again benefited from Raffles , Cake Sales , Bring and Buys , Good as New , Cheese-and-Wines , Coffee Mornings — AND — Sponsored Slims ! |
| 7 | We sent Martin over to operate our North American office because we produce a magazine that goes all over the world , and based in Canada he ran the office for us there and was doing a very good job . |
| 8 | Werner was in his late forties with a short , stocky physique , thinning brown hair and a neatly trimmed russet moustache that tapered down over the corners of his mouth . |
| 9 | A handy moulded plastic bottle that fits easily over the hand . |
| 10 | These kindly present-buying people will be set upon immediately by the old cake-shop lady , who will convince them that what all ‘ the young people ’ are going for are these lovely olive green PVC capes that fit nicely over a rucksack . |
| 11 | The foreskin develops early in intrauterine life as a protuberance of penile epidermis that grows forwards over the glans and adheres to it . |
| 12 | He was clearly not content to sink into idle retirement but was soon full of schemes to open up Hannafore , then reachable only by a path that climbed steeply over a down that fell sharply to the Looe river in a precipitous cliff . |
| 13 | He went out and took the path that leads up over the ridge to the ferry . |
| 14 | But it is a damn sight better than going straight over the cliff , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Lawton covered as Delaney raised himself , wriggling forward into the nearest pocket of shadow , as Forster and Silk came up like weird , black sea creatures that slithered silently over the rail and into the nearest cover of darkness . |
| 16 | He was thirty-eight years old with a youthfully handsome face , tousled auburn hair that hung untidily over the collar of his open-necked white shirt and a sturdy , muscular physique which he kept in shape with a daily five-kilometre run followed by a punishing workout in his own private gymnasium . |
| 17 | He thought how poisonous these mists must be that rolled in over the east coast : all the local inhabitants were as aggressive as fighting cocks . |
| 18 | Nearly a century and a half later , John Taylor and Company are still at work making bells that go all over the world , not only to churches and cathedrals , but to town halls , universities and other secular buildings . |
| 19 | My job essentially was to introduce general management , and therefore I er , I was able to use many of the skills which I had acquired in I B M , but of course , I was also part of the Griffiths debate , here I 'm talking about Griffiths Two , not Griffiths One , I was implementing Griffiths One , which was general management , Griffiths Two was a community , the community debate , so I saw something , which I 'm certainly not allowed to quote , of the great debates that went on over the period of eighteen months before the eventual decision was made about community care . |
| 20 | I think this is one of the essentials in Harlow and something that people should not forget , that is that , although there is a great deal of criticism possibly of the standard of building that went on over the years of the Development Corporation , compared with what most people came from , there was a very great elevation both in quality and in ideas . |
| 21 | I was a little confused at one point — after one of Leeds smooth silky passing movements in the first half , which ended in a shot that went just over the bar I think , most of the ground broke into applause . |
| 22 | and , and it went , cos it was quite a bit more worth petrol that went all over the place . |
| 23 | I come to a bend where the outside is undercut and deep and the bank is riddled with a conglomeration of sinewy roots from a huge old tree that leans threateningly over the water , its leafless branches almost touching the smooth surface . |
| 24 | The new oceanic crust welds to the edges of two plates ( huge pieces of crust that move slowly over the mantle beneath ) . |
| 25 | She was dressed in a cream shirt and navy-blue slacks that fitted snugly over the hips ; the only jewellery she wore was a platinum wedding ring . |
| 26 | I suppose we 're typical of so many families that split up over the changes . |
| 27 | In a syndicated article that ran all over the country , The Washington Post summarised Strickland 's disclosures : ‘ Prof. Rick Heber 's group at the University of Wisconsin may have settled once and for all the question of whether the disproportionate mental retardation of slum children is the result of heredity or environment . ’ |
| 28 | The Bay had a square , two pubs , a promenade walk overlooked by three medium-sized Victorian hotels , and a restaurant with a terrace that stood out over the water . |
| 29 | He straightened up and gazed anxiously over the end of the bed at her . |
| 30 | Turning her head , Polly sipped her coffee and gazed out over the expanse of water . |