Example sentences of "[be] over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was to be over a month before Dad ‘ turned up ’ again . |
| 2 | There looked to be over a pound of the delicious , translucent sweets the bag was bursting , spilling over so that a dozen or more lay scattered on the dusty floor , gleaming like diamonds through the wrappers . |
| 3 | That 's gon na be over a pound |
| 4 | Perhaps the only way to reach a solution would be over a glass or two at the nineteenth hole . |
| 5 | If I found it — well , I 'd be over the moon . |
| 6 | Invite a couple of footy-mad friends round and you 'll all be over the moon . |
| 7 | I should be over the moon ; instead … ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Well , I can appreciate they 're not exactly going to be over the moon , but this is your life we 're talking about , not theirs . ’ |
| 9 | Her clients would be over the moon at the accommodation in this particular hotel . |
| 10 | Surely it does n't require a degree in sociology to realise that people who invest their hard-earned cash in a quality house in a quality development are not going to be over the moon at having that kind of to-ing and fro-ing take place outside their front gates ? ’ |
| 11 | I mean them kids would be over the moon if they went there . |
| 12 | Them kids would be over the moon if they went there Euro Disney . |
| 13 | I agree , its , its like those their lovely little things , do n't think of buying , it 's not very fair cos I mean , Mar , I mean I 'd be over the moon if someone bought me one of those bags . |
| 14 | she said that and she said she do n't mind us swearing she said I 'll leave you fourteen , it actually says twenty tapes in the , bits of paper but she said if you could fill twenty I 'd be over the moon did she say ? |
| 15 | I was entrenched on the top of Eagle 's Piece , with a huge stone under my wheel and the only way out seemed to be over the edge , most humiliating . |
| 16 | Surely I should be over the field in no time . |
| 17 | In two or three years Luis , Patricio and Lorenzo would be catching up with Miguel 's cousins , and by this time Miguel , who drank and ate too much , might well be over the top . |
| 18 | Dandelion would be over the top and back almost as fast as a hare . |
| 19 | Equation ( 7.6 ) assumes that we know what the UK and US inflation rates will be over the course of the year . |
| 20 | When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops . |
| 21 | ‘ He just played with his food , ’ Chatterton frowned , ‘ and that means he must be over the crash period , which means his behaviour 's going to be difficult . ’ |
| 22 | well the bit where it meets , pattern should be over the door , so it 's not until you 're in the room and looking back out |
| 23 | When she speaks to Jane , which will be over the weekend she 'll ask her if she 's doing anything on Saturday and if she 'd like to babysit . |
| 24 | Say good news , that should be over the phone . |
| 25 | Up until the Seventies conventional playing of the spinners dictated that the batsman should be over the ball by dint of footwork or the bat smothering the spin by being in front of the front pad . |
| 26 | Even if one were to concede to McDowell that there could be traffic in simple message types before the Gricean hump , I wish to maintain that one would have to be over the hump ( or at least capable of being in such states as are involved in the hump ) before one 's language could evolve syntactic structure of the kind yielding infinite generative capacity . |
| 27 | 1 The centre cross of your protractor has to be over the corner of the angle . |
| 28 | Miriam : It 's the same situation , the men come to feel that it is their right as male persons to be over the woman . |
| 29 | " Dada will be over the Pigeon Cote and the old dog kennels . " |
| 30 | In tests by Gloucester trading standards officers , more than 70 per cent of caravans were found to be over the weight limit . |