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

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1 Landing over the first fence he crashed into the prostrate form of the faller Meon Valley and was brought down .
2 He presided over the first of a series of discussions on how the Council could further the cause of integration .
3 The VAS were averaged over the first 3 days of admission ( any patient with data missing was omitted from the analysis ) and these means compared by Mann-Whitney U tests .
4 After that coat of paint has dried , a clear flat coat will be applied over the first that will produce a matt surface which will not fingerprint or stain .
5 Twiceover Micky will be there , for I know he likes it , leaving it until tomorrow night to preside over the first night of The Hamburg Ballet , one of the great ballet companies of the world , which he has sold his soul and what else only his God knows to cajole to Belfast , its first-ever visit to these islands .
6 Urine was collected over the first 6 hours after PEG deposition .
7 To refresh her memory she picked up the telephone , closed her eyes , and recalled how his gloved finger had moved over the first four raised knobs of plastic .
8 In early February 1991 Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland had all begun negotiations on association agreements with the EC , which was offering a 10-year transition period to mutual free trade in two stages with asymmetrically large EC tariff cuts over the first five years in all sectors except agriculture , steel and textiles — the very areas where the three countries most desired access .
9 Erm the actual percentage of the ingredients used over the first year erm is about five percent for water , twenty three point six percent for the bottle , I 'll explain that later that 's quite high , the cap is four percent , one percent for the gassing , erm one percent for the case , two point seven percent for labour , four percent for transport , a general overhead would be about seventeen point one percent .
10 When Gloria had got over the first shock of Saul 's horrifying death , she put the warehouse up for sale , together with the contents of the ship-chandlers shop on the ground floor , confident that she would soon find a purchaser .
11 You have n't even got over the first hurdle yet and you 're ready to quit !
12 Once they had got over the first shock , neither Bridget nor Tracey seemed able to take her story entirely seriously .
13 There were five barges moored abreast here , and we climbed over the first four , greeting the startled crews as we went .
14 It is believed the platform of the hoist toppled over the first floor balcony sending them crashing to the ground floor .
15 Is this a *true* reflection of the quality of football we 've played over the first couple of months … and are we likely to break Cov 's unbeaten run ?
16 Dismounted , the leaders crossed over the first and second drawbridges on foot , leaving their men to take the horses down a long ramp to barracks-quarters and stabling at harbour level .
17 We , on the other hand , are just getting over the first one .
18 Areas of bright stucco work have been found over the first layer of tempera .
19 For example , for 2 × 2 weaving , the weaving yarn is laid over the first two needles , under the next two needles , over the next two needles and so on .
20 To this end , you have the option of selecting a Midland Life Low Start Endowment Policy , under which your repayments are reduced over the first five years of the mortgage .
21 TONY Greener , who took over as chairman of Guinness last year , has presided over the first fall in its annual profits for more than a decade , reflecting the effects of the recession on sales and margins and the high marketing spending necessary to support the group 's premium brands .
22 Judging from comments it seemed that after Leeds got over the first 15 mins .
23 All manner of Masters records were broken over the first 36 holes .
24 The orchestra swarms over the first movement like killer bees , and the fierceness of the finale redeems it from suspicions of empty triumphalism .
25 Again she went over the first few days of their itinerary in her mind .
26 The thought had no sooner entered her mind when she tripped over the first slat of the drawbridge and fell to her knees before she could save herself .
27 ‘ How were Dionne and Piggy-wig ? ’ said Francis , yawning over the first coffee of the day .
28 Right so if you go er into squared and estimate the equation , right , it has actually estimated over the full sample period has it , no it has n't no alright it has n't estimated so that 's an equation estimated over the first sum , first sub sample , right , if you press the return key again right right , at the bottom in the table of diagnostic tests you 'll see Chow 's predictive failure test , right and also erm the Chow test .
29 The whole secret is to get over the first round and then improve your display for the next game . ’
30 What emerged over the first half of the century was a financial system which , if limited by comparison with what was to develop over the next two centuries , was capable of mobilising substantial funds and of providing most of the essential services needed by a diversifying economy growing both in output and in sophistication .
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