Example sentences of "on over " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was speaking from a mind full of ideas and images , which all offered insight in varying ways , which he sought to reflect on over several years . |
| 2 | I looked wildly about me a hundred times , unable to think what to do ; then I threw my coat on over my nightdress , pulled woollen socks over the wool trousers I wore to protect me from the cold , and ran to the door , without listening to what his friend was trying to say to me . |
| 3 | Digression won well enough , but the big minus factor against him is the fact that he is by the American stallion , Seattle Slew , whose progeny have tended not to train on over here . |
| 4 | These people have fears which the media has shamelesslessly played on over the years , but which are genuine . |
| 5 | Secret talks with the government , which went on over a period of more than a year , were also broken off . |
| 6 | ‘ Seems like there is something special going on over there tonight , Taff . |
| 7 | In order to escape , the Major turned off the road and kicked his horse on over Wenlock Edge . |
| 8 | ‘ How are you getting on over there ? ’ he asked , cautiously . |
| 9 | It is urging me on over the years bidding me neglect those that were without Cathenne , where as I set out to tell the story of my life , the dull with the bright , the gray with the green , all the Sundays Mondays and Tuesdays of it at least sufficiently to suggest them . |
| 10 | After a long-winded description of the historical background to the war , and survey of the situation in the east — hinting that the war would continue to drag on over the coming winter — Hitler , in the part of the speech which attracted most attention , demanded full powers to act immediately and ruthlessly ‘ independent of person and status ’ where anyone was found not to be fulfilling his duties to the ‘ people 's community ’ and failing in the war effort and promised an ‘ inexorable challenge to every form of corruption and omission of duty ’ . |
| 11 | These are the things that we have both missed out on over the last few years , both of us working at all times . ’ |
| 12 | A wind was gathering at the coast , preparing to sweep across the fields , lean against the few trees and race on over the road , across to the far side of the island . |
| 13 | Just as he will not tolerate questions about his private life , so he will also go ballistic if bureacrats attempt to meddle in his creative decisions — something which Pierre Berge ( the chairman of Yves Saint Laurent ) found out when he became superintendent of Paris 's opera houses in 1988 and attempted to take Barenboim on over the conductor 's directorship of the new Opera-Bastille . |
| 14 | If Yorkshire Pudding ever catches on over there it wo n't be any fault of mine . |
| 15 | As land is passed on over the generations , it gradually ceases to be a viable unit . |
| 16 | The company soldiered on over the years and , up to 1962 , still used the water wheel installed during Wight 's time . |
| 17 | They could all ride now — after a fashion — and stay on over their modest course of jumps ( built of railway sleepers ) ; they could all swim at least three lengths and run a mile without stopping to fall in a heap every hundred yards , not very fast perhaps , but improving all the time . |
| 18 | ‘ As it happened , the kick-off was late — there was no fixed time then — and we were hard-pressed even to get to Edgehill in time for our train home , so in the rush we put our coats on over our playing kit for the journey . |
| 19 | The development officers felt that 50 would be about the maximum number of new cases they could take on over a 12 month period . |
| 20 | The lights were on over the airfield when we landed and ‘ Deemy ’ showed me to the Russian equivalent of the American B.O.Q. adjoining a very handsome and well-furnished Officers ' Lounge and Recreation Room . |
| 21 | Since last year 's season of tests , one cyclone , Reva , has swept right across the atoll and on over the nearby Gambier islands . |
| 22 | According to John Dunster , then a scientist with the AEA and now chairman of the NRPB , the main radioactive cloud travelled south-east across most of England and on over Europe . |
| 23 | One of my first ever professional engagements was as a clown with a witches ' hat on over the top ! |
| 24 | The advantage of using a switch which is either completely off or completely on over any form of variable resistance as in linear supplies , is that no power is dissipated in this sort of control element , whatever the load requirements are or whatever the voltage developed across the switch happens to be . |
| 25 | They were not yet dry but she had no others apart from her best ones , so she pulled them on over the warm , dry woollen stockings into which she had changed upon coming in from the buildings . |
| 26 | Simply set up the machine in minutes , cast on over the 100 needles and off you go — sweaters in yarns from Double Knitting to Chunky can quickly be made using the famous BOND Classic Knitting System on which the new Sweater Machine is based . |
| 27 | With a great effort he attempted to pull his jersey on over his head . |
| 28 | He put the pullover on over Willie 's shirt . |
| 29 | ‘ Quinn , what the hell 's going on over there ? |
| 30 | Sussex 's most remarkable Saxon church , Sompting , illustrates well the process of extension and adaptation which went on over several centuries , and particularly as South Saxon society reached its peak before Norman infiltration . |