Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb past] over [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Two penalties by Derek McAleese put them 6-0 up in as many minutes and five minutes later after a huge McAleese kick had taken play to the corner Davie Tweed won the line out and Johnny Caskey nipped over for the try which McAleese converted .
2 Miss Easterbrook moved over to the open notebook .
3 In January Mauritania handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross 23 Senegalese fishermen detained since July 1989 .
4 As Robert was trying to remember whether that was the college he had said he had attended , Mr Malik went over to the far wall and began to pin up the league table of exam results .
5 President Bush took over from the 78-year-old Ronald Reagan at the age of 64 but within 11 days the rigours of office had taken their toll .
6 This was confirmed on 17 October 1940 , when Serrano replaced Beigbeder as Foreign Minister and the Falangist Demetrio Carceller took over from the anglophile Luis Alarcón de la Lastra at the Ministry of Industry and Commerce .
7 Mrs Varden turned over to the next page ; then went back again to the bottom line over leaf to be quite sure of the last words ; and then went on reading with an appearance of the deepest interest and study .
8 Daniel Eberhardt walked over to the piano .
9 As will be seen in the next chapter , when the republican wing under de Valera took over as the Fianna Fáil party in the 1930s , constitutional law was restructured , according to both a reformed republican ideology and current Roman social teaching , and in those areas where the high clergy thought it necessary .
10 Oxford United 's new manager Denis Smith and his assistant Malcolm Crosby took over at the Manor Ground today ( WES NEXT )
11 ‘ He 's hungry , sir , I think , ’ she said as Dr. Briant walked over to the crib .
12 It stood outside in the garden for years until John and Vera Brittain took over from the Thwaites at High Birk Hatt .
13 Then Murray Wallace surged over for the third try , making the score at half-time 20-0 .
14 St-Germain-des Pres took over from the previous Parisian art centres in Montmartre and Montparnasse , and brought much of the old guard to the new cafes .
15 Middlesbrough substitute Jon Gittens took over from the injured Jamie Pollock with 12 minutes to go .
16 England wobbled , loused up their own throw on their line and Tiaan Strauss drove over behind the lineout , Botha converting .
17 The Bush Administration has put a bounty of $1 million on General Noriega 's head and offered $150 for every PDF weapon handed over to the authorities .
18 The match had a thrilling finale when , with Kendal leading 13–7 and only seconds to go , Greg Young went over in the corner and Andy Craggs kicked the conversion to share the honours .
19 Iwan Tukalo shot over for the first .
20 Hubert Molland pulled over towards the wall and stopped across the entrance of a drive .
21 His vice president Gerald Ford took over for the remainder of his term but lost the 1976 election to Jimmy Carter .
22 In August 1953 Sir John Nott-Bower took over as the new Commissioner at Scotland Yard and was reported as saying that he would ‘ rip the covers off all London 's filth spots ’ .
23 Julie Craig rolled over on the large double bed .
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