Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , remote users can dial in over a modem and access a network 's drives — this is really useful if you have people on the road who need access to office files . |
| 2 | But I 'll think better over a pastis . |
| 3 | ‘ Four of them got together over a couple of decanters of port and I listened to what I could . |
| 4 | Fibrous tissue replaces this , the capillaries heal and contract down over a period of months to leave a linear scar . |
| 5 | Today certain people will not go on the station after dark , so the past tragedy lingers on over an entire railway complex . |
| 6 | A 12 volt battery is really essential for the mechanical action of the trimmer to work effectively over a long period . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She remembered Donna Fratelli 's raucous laugh , the number of times the two of them had sat together over a glass of wine or a plate of pasta , discussing the things which really matter : men , or life , or the latest movie . |
| 9 | There was Duncan McCrea , behind both of them , on his knees , head down over a ditch , hands deep in the water supporting his weight , retching up his guts . |
| 10 | An A4 page scanned at 300dpi needs just over a megabyte of storage , the same page scanned at 16 levels of grey would need 4 megabytes . |
| 11 | After his death his empire could barely be sustained by the new rulers ( including Charles the Bald and Charles the Fat — is it possible to hold an empire together when the populace is taking the mickey out of you to that extent ? ) and crumbled away over a period of two centuries . |
| 12 | The latter has just over a length in hand on the watch and one could not fault her smart performance last time from the trap three she occupies once again . |
| 13 | I cut off the path proper and charged up over a dune and down its other side to where the service pipe carrying the water and electricity to the house appears out of the sand and crosses the creek . |
| 14 | I have looked carefully over a period of weeks at those applications , and have reached the view that they deserve to be granted . |
| 15 | To succeed , they have to be able to draw on their full resources , built up over a lifetime . |
| 16 | From the platform he looks out over a sea of clowns of all shapes and sizes filling the incongruously named Place St Maur des Fosses on the seafront at Bognor Regis . |
| 17 | Surrounded by coconut groves , it looks out over a large , open-air swimming pool onto an excellent sandy beach and the sea beyond . |
| 18 | My room looks out over a croquet lawn , at the end of which is a pond thickly planted with papyrus — the eponymous plant always mentioned by school teachers in any history of written language — in which , I know with certainty , all hell will break loose as dusk falls . |
| 19 | It looks out over a peaceful rural landscape . |
| 20 | This was carried out over a three-week period using a mixture of interviews and questionnaires covering a representative sample of persons from the CSSU and the departments . |
| 21 | Let us take the example of a debt owed to Swannson-on-Wheels for haulage carried out over a four-week period ( throughout the United Kingdom ) on behalf of a computer manufacturer called Computex Ltd . |
| 22 | A single one-off move may be disruptive to overall business activities but at least the process is carried out over a short time . |
| 23 | Formulation of the plan seems to be the result of a complex but highly structured process of consultations and meetings carried out over a six month period , and culminating in the ratification of the plan by the full Politburo . |
| 24 | Bargaining is often carried out over a period of days , so it 's fortunate that a four- night B&B break at a three-star hotel near the market , is £219 in February and March . |
| 25 | Since it was carried out over a four-month summer period ( May-August ) , the practices of these industries with summer peaks will have been better captured than the practices of those with peaks at other times of the year . |
| 26 | Investigations into the activities of this particular gang had been carried out over a very long period and they had been kept under constant surveillance by our officers who were thus able to feed us all the necessary information towards a successful interception . |
| 27 | Other advantages proposed for speech are that the hands are free to perform other tasks and that communication may be carried out over a standard telephone line without the requirement for additional hardware . |
| 28 | For maximum usefulness , these measurements must be carried out over a wide range of temperature . |
| 29 | An adult of 472 gastric emptying tests carried out over a 10 year period was performed to discover the reasons for requests from consultant clinicians , their anticipation of the results of tests , and the influence of the results upon the subsequent management of their patients . |
| 30 | If such doubts exist then an investigation is carried out over a maximum of four months to determine whether the merger should be prohibited or not . |