Example sentences of "over it " in BNC.
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| 1 | In How Prints Look , first published in 1943 , he wrote ‘ an elementary introduction to the appearances ( the outward and visible signs ) of prints ’ , and cautioned that : ‘ Most of the time spent over it should be given to looking at its pictures . ’ |
| 2 | And if it topples over it certainly will . |
| 3 | Let the eye move over it . |
| 4 | ‘ They 'd probably need to go for a week in the Bahamas afterwards , just to get over it . ’ |
| 5 | I once made the mistake you 're thinking of making and I 've never got over it . |
| 6 | Remember that any such feature is simply a vehicle for the plants to be grown over it , and in a few years the structure becomes incidental to the glory of the climber that smothers it . |
| 7 | If it falls over it will certainly be weeks before he flies again . |
| 8 | Do n't fly over it unless you have more than enough height to allow you to reposition yourself well to the side again . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been over it for years . |
| 10 | The leading shoulder protects the chin from upswinging kicks , forcing them to loop high over it . |
| 11 | This may be faster but it leads to a kicking action that tends to collide with the opponent 's leading knee rather than pass over it . |
| 12 | Even if it is stopped by the guard , you can drop the kicking leg quickly to the mat and push the opponent over it . |
| 13 | Jean held up her hand to it and when it made a bright white spot on her palm , she closed her fingers over it and pretended to give it into Donald 's hand , like a delicacy . |
| 14 | He was only too well aware of the Talmudic dictum that a handful does not satisfy a lion , but he was neither apologetic nor guilty over it . |
| 15 | Over it , for dramatic effect , an old school blazer into which she would sew shoulder pads to make the silhouette wider . |
| 16 | ‘ If you could only get over it . |
| 17 | She did n't like to leave it there ; someone might fall over it . |
| 18 | I chose a spot well away from the wasp-infested rubbish bins and kept my eyes on my book when the shadow of a man cast over it . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's a frog , ’ he said , bending over it . |
| 20 | He gets over it very quickly . ’ |
| 21 | Stavrogin writes : ‘ I 've tried the depths of debauchery and wasted my strength over it ; but I do n't like debauchery and never wanted it . ’ |
| 22 | By August 5 the cable had been laid , and Thomson had sent the first two messages over it . |
| 23 | ‘ When we took Lingfield over it was losing £50,000 a year and the year before we sold it to Leisure Investments , it made a profit of £690,000 , ’ Muddle junior says . |
| 24 | The mushroom compost might look a bit straw-like at first , but the plants soon grow together over it . |
| 25 | The third one : once the buzz bombs started to come over it was at last realised that it was n't a very good idea to have children evacuated directly on the flight path between Germany and London , and we were all shipped off to other locations , myself to Teignmouth in Devon . |
| 26 | I am reminded that with the literal manhole — the actual thing in the street — we can indeed walk all over it . |
| 27 | Her park knew she was up there watching and waiting over it , and it tossed off a loving welcoming wave ; it — the tractor , the boys and the bulbs in the earth — knew she had chosen for them and was coming back to them . |
| 28 | This is the most beautiful place I have ever been , a land of snow that is so fresh and clean that to ride over it seems criminal . |
| 29 | By the time we get to the jarv tracks I am over it , putting it down to a poor night 's sleep and a wearing day that have combined so that I am feeling the cold more than I normally do . |
| 30 | When it was discovered that a member of the Immigration Department was in the National Front his seniors merely glossed over it , saying that he was not a permanent member and in any case it did not affect the way he carried out his duties . |