Example sentences of "[prep] over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woodwork can be clearly seen and the turned balusters have been looked after over the years . |
| 2 | Yeah , well he does get a bit of over the top |
| 3 | Leonard argued the case through the columns of Over the Hills for Spring 1930 , in reforming ignorance of the emerging Nazi appropriation of the Germanic pastoral dream : |
| 4 | Anyway , talking of over the road , where is she ? |
| 5 | Think it was to all of Over the Rainbow . |
| 6 | By using Green 's theorem the integral of over the rectangle PNML indicated in Figure 14.1 can be related to its line integral around the boundary . |
| 7 | The Oldham-based firm , which manufactures a wide range of healthcare products , from swabs to saline solution and a variety of over the counter medicines and treatments , recently spent more than £1m on extending its Bootle pharmaceutical manufacturing facility , which trades under the name Seton Prebbles . |
| 8 | but then , on the other hand , I 'm not the sort of person who , I mean , if it 's something like that I can ask people , but I 've got friends who are quite cheeky , who will ask things , I mean , like if somebody does something for me , I 'm like , are you sure , are you sure , you do n't mind , and like , I 'm like over the top the other way . |
| 9 | ‘ Did he tell you what the road was like over the pass ? ’ |
| 10 | Cars in Arran Walk and Gleneagles Road were broken into over the weekend . |
| 11 | Was this a habit he had grown into over the years or had he always been like this , turning his wife into an invalid before there was any real need , a man who could only see himself in a solicitous relationship with other people ? |
| 12 | I do n't mean lying lying , the real heavy-duty , professional stuff , like politics or selling timeshares , I mean those little , easy lies that we slip into over the years . |
| 13 | Chairman , on , on the front of page , under over the border calls , I do n't know whether people saw the erm , local news last night , about the cuts in Herefordshire and Worcestershire , and apparently there 's just one appliance will be in Kidderminster , erm , will that mean we 'll have more over the border calls , because they wo n't be able to get appliances ? |
| 14 | I enjoy shocking people by describing how goods were introduced into households under the guise of gifts for children : the fridge in the house of the children we played with over the road was given to the youngest as a birthday present — the last thing an eight-year old wants . |
| 15 | But whether reprocessing took place or not there would still be thousands of cubic metres of other wastes to deal with over the lifetime of the power station . |
| 16 | We were particularly tempting targets and , bombarded with jeers and gallons of water , we finally fled the hamlet clutching our sopping equipment to our bosoms like hysterical mothers — little comforted by the thought that these were the spiritual mediators of the people we intended to sail with over the months ahead … |
| 17 | And he 'd got lots of famous mates that want to play on his records , and he picks up a Grammy and releases records on scrupulous labels , instead of the 30 or more indie horsefixers he 's had the misfortune to deal with over the years . |
| 18 | We have to change the definition of the word that we 've grown up with over the years , otherwise we really ca n't manage the concept . |
| 19 | But what we have to do is completely junk the definition of the word quality that we 've grown up with over the years . |
| 20 | I will because Mr Mayor I think that councillor started off his response to this by talking about ghettos and a lot of differences between the better off and the worst off and I , the feeling I got from his speech was that what he was actually driving at was he was attempting to perpetuate the class distinction that the Labour party have been so bound up with over the years . |
| 21 | V. GENT enlightens us on a few of the problems he 's had to deal with over the counter . |
| 22 | I 've been watching you from over the wall . |
| 23 | And others she did n't recognize : a young woman from over the sea , sometimes dressed in a nun 's habit , sometimes holding a clear-handled gun ; a foreign man , dark-complexioned and dangerous , his hands red with blood ; a beautiful young-old man with generous lips , picking up a guitar and smiling ; and a man in a tropical suit , with a deathshead skull behind his smile . |
| 24 | USAN I ZUN BI Living for love ; a tropical hurricane arriving from over the sea , generally at dawn |
| 25 | Until that moment Evelyn had not realized exactly what had taken place when she had been let down from over the machine . |
| 26 | He rolls up his sleeves and sets in on the dishes that I have eaten from over the course of the day . |
| 27 | ‘ Come on , Angus , ’ Donald persisted , ‘ let us hear a song from over the mountains . |
| 28 | No sooner had Derek Bevan blown the final whistle at Twickenham , than faint noises could be heard from over the horizon . |
| 29 | Timothy West saw some of those dark Williams depressions descend from over the horizon . |
| 30 | yeah , well let me just read you two or three verses from Exodus , chapter forty , this is what it says then the cloud covered the tent of meeting and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle and Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle and throughout all their journeys whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle the sons of Israel would set out , but if the cloud was not taken up then they did not set out until the day that it was taken up , for throughout all their journeys the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day and there was fire in it by night , in the sight of all the house in Israel and if you were to turn over to kings you 've got a , you 've got a similar thing there with the dedication of the temple and as Be Ben was saying the power really it 's the it 's the presence of God , the shine , the glory , that cloud of , and so what , what , what catches the Lord Jesus up is really the glory of God here he is , the , the riseness , the glorified Christ being called up into heaven in the , in the glory , what he 's been glorified , so he withdraws his physical , physical presence from one place here on earth to present there on the throne and yet by the holy spirit to be every where now Jesus then , he did n't cease to be truly man at either his resurrection or at his ascension , he stays man , God , the God man all the way through and it 's still true today he is the God man today and that 's important for you and me , think of the very worse experience that you have ever had in your life , think of the very worse experience that could happen to you , with the exception of you know that of , of say total failure of some awful sin , the worse thing , maybe a loss of someone dear to you , someone very close to you , er , er , a bereavement , the most awful experience you have had well he has gone through , he has known that experience , he has , has tempted in all points like as we are he knows our frame , he remembers were dust and he has been there and it is a man who has experienced those same experiences that you and I experience day by day , year after year , it is a man who has gone that , who has walked that path , who is in heaven interceding and praying for us , we 'll stop there cos time has gone erm we 'll stop there , we wo n't go on otherwise I 'll get into trouble During this past month some of the questions in the New Testament , the first one we looked at you remember was that question that Jesus asked of his disciples , do you believe that I am able to do this , then we looked at a question which the disciples asked of Jesus , why could we not cast it out last week we looked at another question , are only a few people going to be saved and this morning I 'd like us it 's the final one of these questions not that there are n't other questions in the New Testament and scores , scores of others but were just looking at four er throughout this month , I 'd like us to look this morning for one at , for a few minutes , at one that Jesus asked of a man who confronted him , I 'd like to read a few verses from Luke chapter eighteen , Luke chapter eighteen I 'm gon na read from verse thirty five , it 's the well known account of blind Bartimaeus , Luke chapter eighteen and verse thirty five and he came about that as Jesus was approaching Jericho a certain blind man was sitting by the road begging , now hearing a multitude going by he began to inquire |