Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [prep] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | some shit from over here : |
| 2 | The Company did not send expeditions of its own into this area for over a century ; like the East India and the Royal Africa Companies it established trading posts and waited for the local inhabitants to come and trade at them . |
| 3 | Oh I think I might just put some petrol in over there . |
| 4 | An independent audit , drawn up at Mr Balladur 's request , is said to show public spending heading for a record deficit this year of over FFr400 billion , 6% of GDP , double the forecast of Mr Bérégovoy's's government at the end of last year . |
| 5 | Was there much trouble over over blackleg firms in ? |
| 6 | The thing is , if they always give you and you , your , nine times out of ten what they do is like , is either , they either put a can over there or a beer or something , they put it over the end of the , the weapon pull the trigger and that , even with a flash that can go like that , and then they show you one with the , the erm flashes right which have more powerful than the and they 've actually got same again same charge as a life grenade in , but it just plain cardboard so , obviously no trap , but if you lay on them ooh er , you get or something you do n't throw what they do now is they put one they light one , put the helmet over the top of it and make it lit , it runs like buggery and it 'll go a hundred , a hundred and fifty foot up in the air and inside it looks like its been and where its been in the thing it 'll be like er , six seventy foot off the ground , I mean I laid on one once and I , landed about two foot too my left so I 've rolled over , rolled , rolled , and rolled , as I 've rolled I 've rolled over on my back and I 've had all loads of over , like the , I had a roll there its like the er |
| 7 | We got those letters from over an old shop . |
| 8 | This was certainly the case with Mrs S. , the mother of one of my teenage informants , born in rural Jamaica about 1930 , who moved to London about 1960 : I 've never work — I 've never really work when I was back in de West Indies my husband work , I worked when I came over here and I [ took a long time ] to get a job — because I could remember work at de Post Office and I when I pronounce my words you know too [ soft ] dey say dey do n't hunderstand — according to dem dey do n't hunderstand me , my haccent maybe it 's my haccent or what dey don " understan " it or ting an " I feel like I 'm speakin " the same English like over here . |
| 9 | Oh we were brought up together all on the same vicinity for over the years you get to know one another and and erm thoroughly enjoy ourselves . |
| 10 | They had no other Dutch communities to look to ; they kept their own language for over a century and the switch of allegiance from one ruler to another was one that nobody at that time found at all difficult . |
| 11 | From start to finish quality control has always been to the fore at Guinness Dublin where the company has had its own laboratories for over a century . |
| 12 | Where do you get that lipstick from over there ? |