Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terry McLaughlin , the deputy editor of the Irish News , said some of the material shown to him was marked ‘ top secret ’ , the highest security classification , and went beyond the type of photo-montage material that has been widely leaked over the past month . |
| 2 | They all heard the noise of feet at once , and instinctively leaned over the battlements , craning to see . |
| 3 | Combined with the federal structure of Germany this means that services are de-centralized as far as the political and administrative levels of national state ( Bundesstaat ) , federal state ( Land ) , district ( Kreis ) and local authority are concerned and additionally dispersed over an almost indescribable multiplicity of semi- and non-statutory organizations . |
| 4 | Desperately unlucky at Crayford last month , the lightweight bitch has since won over the Leger course . |
| 5 | Indeed , it was the man at the opposite end of the park , Sieb Dykstra , who had the busier afternoon as he produced three crucial saves , the middle one — he was backpedalling as he acrobatically tipped over a superb Pat McGinlay shot — being the pick of the bunch . |
| 6 | He opened up a correspondence with the more pliable officers among Dara 's army and with promises of rewards secretly won over a sizeable proportion of his opponent 's force . |
| 7 | A decrease in the incidence of gastric carcinoma has been widely reported over the last three decades . |
| 8 | We all agree to the need for more rational use of insecticides than hitherto , especially in agriculture ; yet insecticides to control mosquitoes are normally applied to the inside walls and roofs of buildings so that , unlike agricultural pesticides , they are not widely dispersed over the landscape but confined within houses . |
| 9 | really answer the first part of the Noble Lord 's question by saying that er er it is a question of future cost , er we are er we are already spending a great deal of money on the first part er of this er library and er we will have to examine the future cost very carefully and I put it to you to the Noble Lord that it would be a really sad reflection where the field of creative endeavour in which this country is m has most excelled over the centuries , in other words literature to have no single focus for celebration , preservation and active use , it really is er very important that this library continues , but may I remind Your Lordships also that we 're not talking about the s the library in this question , we 're talking about the u the site at present used by the builders . |
| 10 | This fine-grained limestone is only developed over a very small area , usually thought of as a lagoonal deposit behind sponge reefs , though recently interpreted as deposits in offshore sediment traps . |
| 11 | The rest of the interior had been very much altered over the years and little original work of consequence remained visible . |
| 12 | Once more it was impossible to get high enough to see over the neighbouring branches but he called down that he was reasonably sure that they were now at the southernmost end of the depression which contained the Swamp and that if after another mile or so they turned westward they could do so on dry land . |
| 13 | Once more it was impossible to get high enough to see over the neighbouring branches but he called down that he was reasonably sure that they were now at the southernmost end of the depression which contained the Swamp and that if after another mile or so they turned westward they could do so on dry land . |
| 14 | When he spoke , his voice was raised just loud enough to carry over the low-pitched brass rumbles . |
| 15 | Er where you 've got a note that obviously goes over a beat as in that one there |
| 16 | She went over to help lift the beams , and then hand new turfs and heather up to Luch , who was light enough to clamber over the roof to mend it without breaking it . |
| 17 | Lewis had a distinctive manner of lecturing , which was not greatly altered over the years . |
| 18 | There has not been too much building to spoil the village , and the population has not greatly altered over the years , so it is a pleasant village in which to live . |
| 19 | They are now to admit women to orders , orders which they themselves have rightly filled over the centuries . |
| 20 | Much modified over the war years , in 1944 a much refined and altered version emerged as the Yak–18 which continued the successful line for many more years . |
| 21 | ‘ But we were all so stupidly purist then , which obviously changed over the next couple of years , with Peter writing material like Man Of The World and Albatross . |
| 22 | Having gingerly discarded over a hedge bits of rotted fruit and suspect cheese , I lunched on olives and mineral water in the shade of a great oak wood . |
| 23 | There 's a grungy , thrash band playing upstairs , who get the approval of the reggae crew , and if Zoë suddenly came over the speakers , then people would probably wave their arms in the air . |
| 24 | During the selection process berries are bounced along shaking conveyor belts which are crossed with four inch high wooden barriers — they must be fresh and firm enough to bounce over the boards . |
| 25 | Wayne 's going-out stuff , all hung over the back of his one upright chair , had the definite air of being from another world altogether . |
| 26 | This can , as we have all seen over the last year or so in particular , have very severe effects on normally solvent companies . |
| 27 | There are Early American patchwork quilts in red and white , an 1840 American cradle and a homely 20-dollar porch chair , all collected over the years . |
| 28 | Even so , this was nowhere near enough to win over the Danzig voters . |
| 29 | Seven years later , however , Christien has not only got over the pain but has used the experience to make him a better actor . |
| 30 | Branson was personally angered over the negotiations with the singer Sade . |