Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv prt] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you work out how much you would have spent in the bar , clubbing or eating out over the weekend and subtract it from the cost of the trip it all seems cheaper than ever . |
| 2 | Whether GRIDS themselves are used or another comparable scheme of self-review , choices slowly emerge about what should be strengthened , retained or phased out over the next four years . |
| 3 | At the back there is a horizontal belt sleeve which allows it to be attached to a belt up to 70mm wide and there is also a vertical sleeve 50mm wide which permits it to be worn on its side or slid down over a vertical post for use as a permanent fixture at a centre or clubhouse . |
| 4 | ‘ We will obviously monitor everything that goes on over the next 12 months ’ , he says ‘ We can only hope that when we do our assessments of need we can support that need with the finances we 've been given . |
| 5 | Even with all the other general fund-raising that goes on over the year , it is pleasing that you still run or participate in events that are specifically for the Society ; we have again benefited from Raffles , Cake Sales , Bring and Buys , Good as New , Cheese-and-Wines , Coffee Mornings — AND — Sponsored Slims ! |
| 6 | Werner was in his late forties with a short , stocky physique , thinning brown hair and a neatly trimmed russet moustache that tapered down over the corners of his mouth . |
| 7 | I sat on the earth banking that looks out over the Muddy Creek and ate an apple . |
| 8 | He went out and took the path that leads up over the ridge to the ferry . |
| 9 | He thought how poisonous these mists must be that rolled in over the east coast : all the local inhabitants were as aggressive as fighting cocks . |
| 10 | I think this is one of the essentials in Harlow and something that people should not forget , that is that , although there is a great deal of criticism possibly of the standard of building that went on over the years of the Development Corporation , compared with what most people came from , there was a very great elevation both in quality and in ideas . |
| 11 | My job essentially was to introduce general management , and therefore I er , I was able to use many of the skills which I had acquired in I B M , but of course , I was also part of the Griffiths debate , here I 'm talking about Griffiths Two , not Griffiths One , I was implementing Griffiths One , which was general management , Griffiths Two was a community , the community debate , so I saw something , which I 'm certainly not allowed to quote , of the great debates that went on over the period of eighteen months before the eventual decision was made about community care . |
| 12 | I suppose we 're typical of so many families that split up over the changes . |
| 13 | The Bay had a square , two pubs , a promenade walk overlooked by three medium-sized Victorian hotels , and a restaurant with a terrace that stood out over the water . |
| 14 | Rather than watch them go , I stayed by the sink and gazed out over the playing fields . |
| 15 | Lady Ursula Berowne sat immobile in her sitting room on the fourth floor of 62 Campden Hill Square and gazed out over the top boughs of the plane trees as if at some far distant unseeable vista . |
| 16 | They did not immediately sit down , but leaned on the low parapet and gazed out over the river and the mountains , she with her head inclined towards his , he with a hand resting on her shoulder . |
| 17 | Turning her head , Polly sipped her coffee and gazed out over the expanse of water . |
| 18 | Lissa wandered over to the window and gazed out over the expanse of carefully tended shrubbery that bordered the car park . |
| 19 | Fibrous tissue replaces this , the capillaries heal and contract down over a period of months to leave a linear scar . |
| 20 | Then he jumped on to his black horse , and rode off over the moor with the hounds running and crying around him . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The costs will be in the region of £30,000 to £60,000 for full optical systems , but entry level systems for hypermedia , CD-ROM , WORM and videodisk technology can be obtained off-the-shelf at the moment , and built up over the next five to ten years . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He stands and looks out over the lights of London . |
| 25 | Bakhramov 's opinion that an extra-time shot by Geoff Hurst had hit the underside of the crossbar and bounced down over the goal-line prompted Swiss referee Gottfried Dienst to allow the goal which gave England a 3–2 lead . |
| 26 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ said Bernard , ‘ I too feel like going to a hotel somewhere and looking out over a blue Mediterranean sea . |
| 27 | He is standing as he must have stood that afternoon on the shore of the Gulf of San Miguel , four-square and haughty , bucklered , helmeted , spurred , and looking out over the greatest ocean in the world . |
| 28 | A dolphin school will often divide up into subgroups while searching for food , which separate and spread out over a wide area of sea , still diving synchronously — evidence that they are probably in some form of acoustic contact . |
| 29 | The flood-water 'll just go right up there and spread out over the town . |
| 30 | Stamping their hopelessly outsize boots , they trudged in single file out of the gutted , white-stone church and slogged off over a ditch away from the barricade . |