Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blanche did not linger long over the local news reports . |
| 2 | Though her hair was not quite dry Franca began to plait it very fast , letting a long thick plait materialise between her nimble hands , then tossing it over her shoulder and letting it hang down over the back of the chair . |
| 3 | But inflation should fall further over the medium-term . |
| 4 | Those leafing through their history books for an earlier model for the current recession could linger fruitfully over the pages that cover the 1870s . |
| 5 | Even though you have checked things over thoroughly , there is always the distinct possibility that something electrical will pack up over the Christmas period . |
| 6 | It remains to be seen whether the archaeologists will win out over the urban planners . |
| 7 | ‘ The funds are currently being invested in our bogus companies ; their value will fall dramatically over the next six months . ’ |
| 8 | The generally cooperative partnership between the local states and the developers did break down over the distribution of investment profits from central shopping development . |
| 9 | If you need to withdraw more than £500 you can do so over the counter at your Midland branch . |
| 10 | The less constrained the genre , primarily interactional ‘ chat ’ , for example , the less likely it is that we can confidently state norms of expectation which will generalise even over the experience of the English-speaking population . |
| 11 | The generosity of people in the area so far gives them good cause to believe that they will succeed again over the next 12 months . |
| 12 | There seems to the writer little doubt that unemployment due to automation will grow steadily over the next few decades , perhaps centuries , and in the end it is likely to reach a very high figure , say ninety per cent of the labour force , unless radical changes are made in the present pattern of working . |
| 13 | Then I can look right over the woods and see where they are ! ’ |
| 14 | From the top you could see right over the seaside resort out into the countryside beyond . |
| 15 | From its leafy canopy he could see right over the gardens and the wilderness of the lower grounds to the rows of cobbled streets on the far side of the beck wall . |
| 16 | From here you can see right over the Solway Firth to the Scottish lowlands . |
| 17 | But I wanted to do them because they give very good training and will let me work all over the world . |
| 18 | And is it quite regular hours or do you work all over the time ? |
| 19 | Peter Johnson says : ‘ We 're hoping that our pollution-free and energy-efficient units will mark the start of a new generation of sophisticated electric trains which will eventually run all over the Regional Railways network . ’ |
| 20 | Peter Johnson says : ‘ We 're hoping that our pollution-free and energy-efficient units will mark the start of a new generation of sophisticated electric trains which will eventually run all over the Regional Railways network . ’ |
| 21 | It often gets me when I am in a high building or can look down over the city , or sometimes at a station when there is another journey to begin . |
| 22 | She could look down over the rail into a walled sunken courtyard belonging to the basement flat , a brick-lined niche with some white cast-iron garden furniture and some shrubs in open barrels . |
| 23 | As a family , therefore , we have perfectly happily left what little savings we could scrape together over the last 20 years or so with the Woolwich Building Society , whose efficiency and ethics we have never had any reason to doubt . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've made some contacts that I can follow up over the next couple of weeks . |
| 25 | She came to a point where she could see far over the town , she had instinctively gone up following the fleeing daylight , and the mist over there under a sky that was greyish and purplish and darkening again , became apparent because it was being lit up from those distant buildings and streets , the points of light vibrating through the moisture . |
| 26 | Perched on the mountain close to the main square of Ravello , guests here can look out over the highly productive vineyards and dazzling blue sea . |
| 27 | She would look out over the scenery and think serene thoughts , and before too long Rourke Deveraugh would be nothing more than a hazy memory , a burr on the skin that was shaken off and trampled underfoot . |
| 28 | This is the ice-cream tent and this is the Ladies and changing rooms for some of the performers and instead of looking at the back of the bar during the interval , the audience can look out over the rolling Oxfordshire countryside . |
| 29 | Such an edge should be set just below the level of the turf so that a machine can run smoothly over the top — simply neaten up once a year with a half moon iron or spade and save that chore of hand edging . |
| 30 | They drew the eye to One Tree Hill , now forested over , and from this clump , at Chested , he could look back over the top of Chiddingstone Castle to another clump at Mark Beech beyond . |