Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When he spoke , his voice was raised just loud enough to carry over the low-pitched brass rumbles . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Even so , this was nowhere near enough to win over the Danzig voters . |
| 7 | ‘ Nobody else mad enough to crawl over the rooftops for 50 years ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You have only to hop over the wall to reach them , supposing their dogs do n't get you . ’ |
| 9 | Several who declined this gesture now regret it , and I 'm thankful for the sandy ground which provides the perfect means literally to kick over the traces . |
| 10 | When she was flush , she had been stupid enough to pay over the odds . |
| 11 | Erm just to go over the payments for the car park which has come up actually under community industries and the plants , the total being now for plants it was four hundred and forty four pounds er |
| 12 | Unable to bear any more , she swung away to stumble over the ploughed field . |
| 13 | Er we the Society try our very best to get over the message to people just before Christmas . |
| 14 | I need time and space not just to get over the appalling things which have happened to me in which you do not seem to show much interest but also to think through where the two of us are at . |
| 15 | Not so at the short story length , where humour can be used more gainfully to put over the perhaps dull facts needed to lay out a situation leading to an ingenious switch-over ending . |
| 16 | ‘ You can borrow the car and I 'll see you in the office later to go over the VAT files . ’ |
| 17 | She was too tired now to walk over the moor but she would set off first thing in the morning . |
| 18 | He had his time-proven tests for this : one was simply to walk over the land and to ‘ feel it through his boots ’ , ; then again he would take up a handful of soil , carefully crumbling it to test it ; or he would bend down and draw his fist backwards through the soil . |
| 19 | The Conference was not just an affair , mounted at great trouble and expense , at which the Party 's footsoldiers were given four days simply to kick over the traces . |
| 20 | You came out here to whimper over the fact that you could n't be together in the way that you would like , only you made the unfortunate mistake of running into me instead . ’ |
| 21 | I also like to work one area in great detail and then to wash over the whole thing to blur it out . |
| 22 | ‘ The army will concentrate on Quatre Bras , ’ the Duke of Wellington seemed to be speaking to himself as though he groped towards a solution of the problem Napoleon posed , ‘ but we sha n't stop him there , and if so , ’ Wellington 's gaze flicked across the map , then settled , ‘ I must fight him , ’ he paused again to lean over the map for a few final seconds , ‘ here . ’ |