Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] over a [noun sg] " 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 | But I 'll think better over a pastis . |
| 3 | ‘ Four of them got together over a couple of decanters of port and I listened to what I could . |
| 4 | Fibrous tissue replaces this , the capillaries heal and contract down over a period of months to leave a linear scar . |
| 5 | These kindly present-buying people will be set upon immediately by the old cake-shop lady , who will convince them that what all ‘ the young people ’ are going for are these lovely olive green PVC capes that fit nicely over a rucksack . |
| 6 | She remembered Donna Fratelli 's raucous laugh , the number of times the two of them had sat together over a glass of wine or a plate of pasta , discussing the things which really matter : men , or life , or the latest movie . |
| 7 | There was Duncan McCrea , behind both of them , on his knees , head down over a ditch , hands deep in the water supporting his weight , retching up his guts . |
| 8 | An A4 page scanned at 300dpi needs just over a megabyte of storage , the same page scanned at 16 levels of grey would need 4 megabytes . |
| 9 | After his death his empire could barely be sustained by the new rulers ( including Charles the Bald and Charles the Fat — is it possible to hold an empire together when the populace is taking the mickey out of you to that extent ? ) and crumbled away over a period of two centuries . |
| 10 | The latter has just over a length in hand on the watch and one could not fault her smart performance last time from the trap three she occupies once again . |
| 11 | I cut off the path proper and charged up over a dune and down its other side to where the service pipe carrying the water and electricity to the house appears out of the sand and crosses the creek . |
| 12 | I have looked carefully over a period of weeks at those applications , and have reached the view that they deserve to be granted . |
| 13 | To succeed , they have to be able to draw on their full resources , built up over a lifetime . |
| 14 | My room looks out over a croquet lawn , at the end of which is a pond thickly planted with papyrus — the eponymous plant always mentioned by school teachers in any history of written language — in which , I know with certainty , all hell will break loose as dusk falls . |
| 15 | From the platform he looks out over a sea of clowns of all shapes and sizes filling the incongruously named Place St Maur des Fosses on the seafront at Bognor Regis . |
| 16 | If such doubts exist then an investigation is carried out over a maximum of four months to determine whether the merger should be prohibited or not . |
| 17 | Bargaining is often carried out over a period of days , so it 's fortunate that a four- night B&B break at a three-star hotel near the market , is £219 in February and March . |
| 18 | The refurbishment scheme ‘ A Good Place to Live ’ will be carried out over a period of five years . |
| 19 | Modelled here by Adele Curry , a student at the Blackpool and Flyde College of Hair and Beauty , the amazing creation which took two weeks to complete and stands well over a foot high is in celebration of Blackpool Tower 's £13 million transformation into Tower World . |
| 20 | ‘ I have taken to colour like a new lover , ’ he pronounced unconvincingly over a cappuccino in the sparse urban palazzo that doubles as his office and town house . |
| 21 | Manufacturing productivity rose by over a half between 1981 and 1991 . |
| 22 | Interviewers and cameramen with slavering lips and wolfish grins ( all Americans are dogs ) press forward over a film set piled high with gaunt striped-pyjama 'd corpses . |
| 23 | The chicken , which she next drew from the fridge , had , so the label proclaimed , ranged freely over a district of France before being hygienically and humanely slaughtered and packed . |
| 24 | At his side , Snodgrass was capering along , occasionally leaping nimbly over a patch of undergrowth , one hand holding his hat on his head , his cloak flying about his ankles , but keeping pace with Floy . |
| 25 | In practice the distribution between the various hospital and community services may have little objective foundation , having developed incrementally over a number of years . |
| 26 | The aim of Heidrick and Struggles ' approach is to build a team that can truly work and integrate together over a number of years . |
| 27 | You are able to collect the information detailed below over a number of informal visits , and are now required to present your preliminary conclusions and recommendations for Davenport 's consideration . |
| 28 | There is even a physical basis to the collectivity of women : it has been shown that women living together over a length of time frequently fall into a synchronicity of menstrual cycles . |
| 29 | In the past , samples of children 's language have been collected using a diary approach where examples of children 's utterances , together with a description of the surrounding context , were simply written down over a period of weeks or months ( Miller 1981a ) . |
| 30 | In other cases , a partner 's contribution may be agreed to be collected in over a period of years out of his profit share . |