Example sentences of "[verb] over [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Two of us in a great mass of strangers , and various things to do that you 've got to get right , like follow signs and collect your luggage ; then you get looked over by the customs , and no-one particularly cares who you are or what you 're doing there so the two of you have to keep one another cheerful …
2 They aimed to pass over to the other side of the stockade through the gap between one section and the other , where the bridge spanned the stream .
3 He failed to release in time to prevent the towplane from being tipped over into the ground .
4 The canal 's over that-a-way , but if we head over towards the old brickworks- ’ She unlocked a huge padlock which fastened the gates .
5 I falled over on the living room .
6 The solid trapdoor lifted and crashed over onto the tiled floor , and his heart soared as the torch light revealed the wooden rungs of a ladder descending into the darkness below .
7 And Lyon settled the issue in the 72nd minute when he crashed over at the corner for the match-clinching try .
8 Pepper was in no mood for mercy , however , and in the 58th minute he broke free from a maul , went inside Graves and , with Moon hanging on , crashed over near the post for Gregory to convert .
9 First , because I have to slip over to the pub without her .
10 ‘ I had similar problems when I stopped over in the Brown Islands , ’ he said .
11 He will not , however , be liable for rent which accrues due after the expiry of the contractual term if an assignee holds over under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , unless there are clear contractual provisions to this effect ( City of London Corporation v Fell [ 1993 ] 04 EG 115 ) .
12 A person who holds over at the end of a lease is not a trespasser until demand is made , as only the person in possession can be trespassed against ( Hey v Moorhouse ( 1839 ) 6 Bing NC 52 ) .
13 No I nip over to the shop and get it from near .
14 Or you could live there , rig up your personal computer and play the Stock Exchange and the Bourse at the same time and then nip over to the West End for a show . ’
15 Some sociologists have researched ‘ counter school ’ youth cultures , and how they are naturally carried over onto the shopfloor .
16 Such attitudes were far removed from the world of the fictional Sir Joseph Bowlem in Dickens 's Chimes short story who boasted ‘ I allow nothing to be carried over into the New Year ; every description of account is settled in this house at the close of the old one ’ , and the real life employee of Manders the Wolverhampton paintmakers who scribbled on the flyleaf of a 1896 catalogue :
17 St Joseph 's church at Crofton is retained , and elements of the two churches which have been replaced are carried over into the new one .
18 The principle of counting to ensure pastoral care and effective deployment of manpower is carried over into the New Testament .
19 This policy was to be carried over into the post-independence period .
20 The grammar of English is carried over into the signing and presumably evaluation of the adequacy of BSL is based on the ease with which it can be fitted to this English format .
21 Now , thanks in no small measure to his own contribution to the Hampshire cause , he has one ; and the only disappointment is that the climax of the match was watched by only about 8000 people , as the weather caused it to be carried over into the second day .
22 The interest in the one form of expression can be carried over into the other .
23 Further , some at least of the influential individuals in a community may operate outside the field of industrial relations : drawing on the work of Blauner ( 1960 ) , Bulmer suggests that the strong occupational communities characteristic of mining settlements occur because the social relations forged in the workplace are carried over into the arenas of non-work activity , creating overlapping primary group affiliations in which
24 It was part of the Greek conception of reason , after all , that reason was not just a purely intellectual affair but carried over into the life-world , with considerable practical implications .
25 Given that the decision has now been taken by Parliament to extend the law to cover recordings , broadcasts and cable programmes , it may be wondered whether the exemption for these should have been automatically carried over into the new law .
26 This division of the sky was eventually carried over to the division of the circle and so led to our present habit of dividing the complete ( two-dimensional ) angle around a point into 360 degrees .
27 a widow is the first line of a paragraph left alone at the foot of a page and an orphan is the last line of a paragraph carried over to the top of a new page .
28 an over-ambitious agenda which takes too long to complete or has to be carried over to the next meeting .
29 It 's a pity this finish quality is n't carried over to the fingerboard , an area of a budget guitar which often lets it down .
30 The Government confirmed that the Bill would not proceed — it fell with the dissolution of Parliament on 16 March ( unfinished legislation can not be carried over to the new parliament ) .
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