Example sentences of "be over by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The danger of our treacherous spring unleashing a killing frost , has receded to some extent , and although recent Aprils have done much damage , the early flowers are over by then and the bad spells are , every day , likely to be shorter . |
| 2 | If only I 'd gone along with the doctor 's proposals , it would have been over by now — completely and painlessly over , and any feelings of guilt I might have had as a result I would surely have dealt with ages ago . |
| 3 | The game could really have been over by about 60 mins , if not half time . |
| 4 | And if the doctor wants the police the performance will be over by then and the house cleared before they can possibly get here . ’ |
| 5 | The Defence Minister barely flinched as the camera zoomed in for a close-up of his face as they ran the famous film clip from mid-December , 1987 , in which he promised that it would all be over by Christmas . |
| 6 | The Defence Minister barely flinched as the camera zoomed in for a close-up of his face as they ran the famous film clip from mid-December , 1987 , in which he promised that it would all be over by Christmas . |
| 7 | All the sex would be over by the time Gina came back . |
| 8 | It would all be over by the time he got there ! |
| 9 | Still , I thought as I waited in thick over-coated ranks for the Germans to come and count us , it 'll all be over by this time tomorrow . |
| 10 | That really was something to cheer about , and people started to go round saying it would all be over by Christmas . |
| 11 | ‘ Now that us three 's in the Navy it 'll be over by Christmas ! ’ |
| 12 | It was already clear by November 1914 that the war would not ‘ be over by Christmas ’ , as so many had optimistically supposed . |
| 13 | Although not a single document had yet been approved , he hoped all would be over by Christmas 1963 , the 400th anniversary of the Council of Trent . |
| 14 | The Shell Series will be over by then , and Crowe has devoted himself to Auckland 's cause . |
| 15 | Because when I was thinking about trying to talking to you today , I thought although we 've worked quite a lot with people along this group , you might be sitting here and thinking well you do n't seem to be doing any specific work for and with old people erm , well I think your quite independent and can work out your right that , but one of the things this front line review erm it erm , it 's considering Council front line services under various headings , one of which is Retired Services that the Council provide as a group , now the leader of the Council wants to erm , get public views on how we look at these services , so , and that 's , that 's individuals and groups and one of the things that you might like to think about and I 'm that we as a local government unit who are servicing this review can help you with , is to consider how you might want to fee in for that review , erm and , and consider this , that the re-services for retired people , that the Council provides that you use and basically whether you use that , or service , we want to hear that , the Council would need to know that cos were gon na be making decisions about whether or not they should continue in this front line review erm , and erm , you know , or what things you would , what , what are your questions on about those services , what other things you would like to see provided , things like that and I thing this group could quite easily make a collective representation , a collective submission to that process then you could do it as individual 's as well , so that , that exercise it , it should be over by the eleventh of October it starts on the sixth of September . |
| 16 | And hence the feeling in nineteen fourteen when the first world war broke out that it would er all be over by Christmas . |
| 17 | Most of her work would be over by now ; Dizzy was out of the way , and the party was running under its own momentum . |
| 18 | It was ten days ago that she 'd heard from Le Touquet , and that series of games must be over by now , she knew . |
| 19 | It might all be over by Christmas anyhow . ’ |
| 20 | This is going to be an interesting meeting , Alan says it will be over by two thirty because he 's organized for some training to happen then on er disciplinary issues . |
| 21 | Many of the meetings listed on that page will be over by the time this gets to you but the details are given as a way of providing a background of work in progress and ideas for future programmes for all the groups . |
| 22 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |
| 23 | This visit from the 416th Bomb Wing will be over by the end of the week . |
| 24 | ‘ If Pakistan bat first , it 'll be over by breakfast . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But today the situation took the pressure off me ; most people thought the game would be over by tonight . |
| 26 | Oh it must be over by Caulfield way is it ? |
| 27 | Well look at it this way it 'll all be over by Saturday anyway |
| 28 | That doll — that knitted gobshite — when that thing spat at you , you were n't anywhere near the window , you were over by the statues , on the other the of the room . |
| 29 | His great days were over by the middle of the 1830s , although he was still active , on a much reduced scale , until at least the middle of the next decade . |
| 30 | Keith and John were over by the time Paul met John . |