Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , remote users can dial in over a modem and access a network 's drives — this is really useful if you have people on the road who need access to office files . |
| 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 | Even though you have checked things over thoroughly , there is always the distinct possibility that something electrical will pack up over the Christmas period . |
| 4 | It remains to be seen whether the archaeologists will win out over the urban planners . |
| 5 | The generally cooperative partnership between the local states and the developers did break down over the distribution of investment profits from central shopping development . |
| 6 | In a gap in the trees I can now look down over a green vegetable pointillism of tree-tops , falling away down to the town . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've made some contacts that I can follow up over the next couple of weeks . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If you have given birth , can you look back over the process and recognize how it has changed you ? |
| 15 | Yet Iago suddenly wheeled his pony again , and made for the highest point of the ridge , where he could look back over the valley , and see as far as the scattered outer copses and the rim of the forest . |
| 16 | Do you build a picture in your head before you play anything or do you just jam around over the backing track and wait for something good to happen ? |
| 17 | This expectation has rather been confirmed than otherwise by the superimposition in the last two years of an element of graduation in the contribution , the additional yield of which for many years to come will mainly help to finance the standard pension but which creates a right to additions to it which will gradually build up over the next forty years on an actuarial basis . |
| 18 | If it is stimulated every time we sit down then tremendous tensions will build up over the years ; these will give rise to neck and back problems , and will also be responsible for many headaches and migraines . |
| 19 | Last summer we initiated the loan exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge of the finest private German collection of Romantic and Nazarene Drawings which we advised and helped build up over the years , having bought for the collection on commission here at the London auctions major drawings like Koch 's ‘ The Schmadribachfall ’ , and Overbeck 's important preparatory study for his fresco at the Villa Massimo in Rome . |
| 20 | Even so , considerable errors can build up over the period of ten or more years that elapses between one Census date and the time when the finalized results of the next Census can be used . |
| 21 | If I have to listen to one more candidate telling me he sees the job as a challenge I 'll throw up over the boardroom table . |
| 22 | With a low gasp she let her fingers slide up over the daunting hardness of his shoulders , touch the short , thick hair at his nape … he moved his hands down to her hips , in a quick convulsive movement , crushing her against him . |
| 23 | Interpreting these counts needs care , particularly those for the winter , when very marked fluctuations have been recorded , for , unlike most other waders , the wintering Black-tailed Godwits may move about over the whole of the estuarine complex from Pagham Harbour to Portsmouth Harbour in Hampshire . |
| 24 | Then he could think back over the rising and understand and admit its weaknesses and set himself to imagine a better future … |
| 25 | This telephone call made me think back over the years . |
| 26 | The development officers felt that 50 would be about the maximum number of new cases they could take on over a 12 month period . |
| 27 | She had anticipated as much when he talked to her about leaving as they watched the sun go down over the Mediterranean during the honeymoon cruise . |
| 28 | But what about this : in 1853 , at Trouville , he watched the sun go down over the sea , and declared that it resembled a large disc of redcurrant jam . |
| 29 | Well , I mean , we had the opportunity , you know chit-chat job and mum said are we gon na go down over the weekend ? |
| 30 | Determined not to put a foot wrong , let alone go in over the top , as I sometimes do . |