Example sentences of "[pron] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effort began to sap his strength and his muscles quivered as at last he pulled himself over the icy edge . |
| 2 | His predecessor , Centwine , abdicated on his conversion to enter a monastery , but of the details of the process by which Caedwalla established himself over the western Saxons nothing is known . |
| 3 | He 's been lucky of course , in that respect , in that he has had something to occupy himself over the last few months as far as the Gulf war is concerned , and in that respect , of course , I think I do n't I think it would be very difficult to fault him . |
| 4 | He planned to take care of her himself over the next five days , he told her . |
| 5 | Our campaign soon led us to investigate the finances of the National Land Fund , which over the previous twenty years had been used to acquire a whole series of country houses for the nation . |
| 6 | Rodríguez had refused to attend the final session on June 18 of the National Constituent Assembly , which over the previous six months had drafted the Constitution , because of the Assembly 's approval of a " transitory clause " on June 15 which ensured that he was included in a general constitutional ban on presidents standing for re-election . |
| 7 | The ‘ ship ’ is therefore dwarfed by the size of the ocean which is post-school education and training ; moreover it is an ocean which over the last ten or so years has been in unprecedented turmoil culminating in the hurricane represented by the 1988 Education Reform Act . |
| 8 | Sport & Recreation is a very small part of a huge leisure industry which over the last 20 years has seen a massive increase in both the provision of Local Authority facilities and in participation levels . |
| 9 | It can see through clouds , which over the past week have stymied satellites using visible light , and even penetrate the soil . |
| 10 | The Strategic Defence Initative Organisation , which over the past decade has spent some $10 billion in answer to Ronald Reagan 's call for a defence that would make nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete , is no more . |
| 11 | By the mid-nineteen fifties many Orcadians had begun the task of modernizing their homes by building new ones a process which over the past three decades seems to have gone on with ever increasing frenzy . |
| 12 | Yet the young are living in an age which over the past year has become dramatically uncertain . |
| 13 | While the most prominent member of the VSC , Tariq Ali , was soon to become a member of a smaller , and less durable , International Marxist Group , it was the IS which did much of the groundwork , and which over the next five years was to reap most of the recruits . |
| 14 | Then he lived about half way and , and er , one or two more he lived at the top house on the right and somebody over the other side . |
| 15 | On Dec. 2 , as a result of the first all-German general election since November 1932 , Helmut Kohl of CDU , who over the preceding months had presided over the unification of Germany [ see pp. 37761-63 ] , was returned to office as Federal Chancellor . |
| 16 | It has particular significance for those churches who over the last decade , aided by the enthusiasm which stemmed from the Archbishop of Canterbury 's report ‘ Faith in the City ’ ( December , 1985 ) and the subsequently established Church Urban Fund , have tried to put their buildings , their membership and above all their local networks at the service of the wider community . |
| 17 | Over the years Reid 's has been host to many people , and its visitors , book reads like an international Who 's Who over the past century . |
| 18 | The municipal authorities of Barcelona , who over the past few years have acquired a great deal of experience and expertise in founding and running cultural centres , have recently signed an agreement with the Fundación Salvador Allende to collaborate in setting up a museum in Santiago , Chile , to be called the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende . |
| 19 | It has , however , been Eric Kandel , initially jointly with Tauc in Paris and later in New York , who over the past quarter century has made the study of Aplysia learning and memory so especially his own . |
| 20 | BT went a stage further in its experiment , just completed , involving ten staff from its directory enquiries centre at Inverness who over the past year have been operating from home . |
| 21 | My main opposition in the final was Phil Brown from Birmingham , already an established international and the man who over the next decade or so was to be a team-mate of mine and to be the British anchorman in some very fine 4 × 400 metres relay performances . |
| 22 | They included some senior generals who over the previous months had been criticized in the Belgrade media for poor leadership in the military campaigns in the former Yugoslavia . |
| 23 | Again , this is information which is useful to you over the long term . |
| 24 | Again , this is information which is useful to you over the long term . |
| 25 | Avoid the aliens , a super long jump will get you over the other two . |
| 26 | If I can get across this road and the bridge I 'll take you over the other side and you might be able see the big tree trunk better . |
| 27 | The two hour drive from Zurich to Hinterzarten takes you over the Swiss/German border at Koblenz/Waldshut and the scenery is truly spectacular . |
| 28 | I was just building up my first business then , and a thing like that is a bit like riding a roller-coaster — you need all the speed you can collect on the downhill runs to take you over the next hump . |
| 29 | I had it on my schedule to see quite a lot of you over the next few weeks , Folly . |
| 30 | The opportunity to serve you and to meet you over the next twelve months I look forward to enormously and while I 'm not conceited enough to think that I can move mountains in the year ahead , or naive enough to think that I can please everybody fully , fellow Tablers I promise you I will not let you down . |