Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] [vb pp] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | from standstill to top speed was , it seemed , instant , with me fighting to stay in balance as the sledge buckled over the rough trail . |
| 2 | Outside the Waste flickered into brilliance and died in darkness as the lightning played over it . |
| 3 | The front of the raft would rise alarmingly into the air then dip down as the stern followed over the crest of the wave . |
| 4 | The musicians involved in punk were also intensely wary of what they saw as the control exercised over popular music by the major record companies . |
| 5 | He put his head in his hands as the waiter brought over the glass of water ; he sipped it , and dabbed some on his temples to cool them . |
| 6 | Sources of income and wealth had rapidly diversified as the economy developed over the long eighteenth century , so a graduated tax on incomes was a logical development to collect revenue from a merchant and manufacturing class which had hardly been as heavily burdened as either the landowners or the poor consumers . |
| 7 | Rachel sat up as the announcement crackled over the tannoy . |
| 8 | The Moderator laid on the table a letter dated 4th July which he had received from Mr Sutherland and which having , been read was by unanimous order of the Session thrown over the table . |
| 9 | But I discard that idea , for the water is too shallow over the sand and once a fish is hooked the fishing would be finished for a long time while the rest of the shoal got over the scare . |
| 10 | The vast curling crest of the hurricane reared over them , and its face stretched from horizon to horizon . |
| 11 | Professor Lacey said yesterday : ‘ I have seen the membership of the committee refined over the years to suit the interests of the large food and pharmaceutical companies . |
| 12 | THE young man filmed in the early hours of yesterday delightedly taking a pick-axe to the top of the Berlin Wall was a potent symbol of the destruction of 28 years of affront to freedom and of the potential dismantling of the system presided over until only a few weeks ago by its architect , Mr Erich Honecker . |
| 13 | He could , Dalgliesh thought , have been judged an outstandingly handsome man were it not for a certain incongruity of feature , perhaps the contrast between the fineness of the skin stretched over the flat cheekbones and the strong jutting jaw and uncompromising mouth . |
| 14 | His cheek-bones were prominent and the paleness of the skin stretched over them was accentuated by the darkness which ran like a stain round his eyes . |
| 15 | Athelstan swung his cloak around him , picked up his writing tray and examined the beautiful embroidery of the dorsar draped over the back of one of the chairs . |
| 16 | The social tensions evidenced in many of these letters found an echo in some of the music played over the radio . |
| 17 | On an afternoon in late February they climbed to the great Iron Age hill-fort at Dowsborough , from where they looked down on ‘ a magnificent scene , curiously spread out for even minute inspection ’ ; and on other occasions they watched from the hills as the effects of the weather unfolded over the landscape below . |
| 18 | In law , the subsidiary company is a distinct entity , regardless of the control exercised over it , and it will be doing its own business not that of its parent . |
| 19 | It is believed the platform of the hoist toppled over the first floor balcony sending them crashing to the ground floor . |
| 20 | Egyptian ideas about the creation of the world developed over a considerable period of time . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | Moreover , the nature of the evidence adduced and the tone of the argument shifted over time , serving to justify the changing nature of sexual divisions in society ( the ‘ typewriter girl ’ was herself a product of changes in the occupational distribution of women workers ) . |
| 23 | Even if it had , the selfhood would be in the replicas of the gene scattered over different bodies ; that the gene , analogous though it is to species rather than to individual , has to be taken as the unit , is precisely because it is more useful for explanation to speak of the selfish gene than of the altruistic replica . |
| 24 | This must be equal to the integral over the surface were v is the velocity and — the density ; n is the outward normal to the surface S which enclosed V. By Gauss 's theorem we may write and hence Since this must be true for any volume element we have the equation of continuity The conservation of momentum in continuum mechanics relates the rate of change of the momentum integrated over a volume V to the resultant of the forces on that volume . |
| 25 | Regional and municipal elections planned for Dec. 6 were held as scheduled and passed off without incident , despite the shadow cast over them by the Nov. 27 abortive military coup , the second attempt during 1992 [ see p. 39185 ] . |
| 26 | I wandered back down the stairs , past the washing draped over the bannisters and out onto the broken glass of the yard . |
| 27 | This acquisition of competence can be seen as one way the worker defends himself against the control exercised over him by management . |
| 28 | It was a rough job , but somehow it did n't look that different with the skin stretched over straw instead of ribs . |
| 29 | It is intended that the main part of the investment programme will be completed by next year , with the remainder phased over a further two years . |
| 30 | Tail held erect but with the tip tilted over The cat is very interested and is in a friendly , greeting mood , but with slight reservations . |