Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv prt] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the small modifications should add up over a period of time to make major achievements . |
| 2 | If I have to listen to one more candidate telling me he sees the job as a challenge I 'll throw up over the boardroom table . |
| 3 | Next time it might come down over the centre of a large city . ’ |
| 4 | Then he could think back over the rising and understand and admit its weaknesses and set himself to imagine a better future … |
| 5 | They drew the eye to One Tree Hill , now forested over , and from this clump , at Chested , he could look back over the top of Chiddingstone Castle to another clump at Mark Beech beyond . |
| 6 | Yet Iago suddenly wheeled his pony again , and made for the highest point of the ridge , where he could look back over the valley , and see as far as the scattered outer copses and the rim of the forest . |
| 7 | She could look down over the rail into a walled sunken courtyard belonging to the basement flat , a brick-lined niche with some white cast-iron garden furniture and some shrubs in open barrels . |
| 8 | The development officers felt that 50 would be about the maximum number of new cases they could take on over a 12 month period . |
| 9 | And er at the end of it I think we all felt we knew where we were going , and , and what the work that we 'd put in over the last three years on the management procedures , which form the foundations of our quality system . |
| 10 | Interpreting these counts needs care , particularly those for the winter , when very marked fluctuations have been recorded , for , unlike most other waders , the wintering Black-tailed Godwits may move about over the whole of the estuarine complex from Pagham Harbour to Portsmouth Harbour in Hampshire . |
| 11 | She would look out over the scenery and think serene thoughts , and before too long Rourke Deveraugh would be nothing more than a hazy memory , a burr on the skin that was shaken off and trampled underfoot . |
| 12 | The review continues that work but we shall go back over the ground to make sure that the newer regulations we have introduced include as little red tape as possible , ’ said . |
| 13 | Eventually , after about a week , her little head would pop up over the hill and watch me put out her food as I whistled , but she would n't come down for it until she felt the coast was clear . |
| 14 | If the flow rate should increase for any reason , the lava may burst out over the levees , flooding out to form a new branch of the main flow , and this ‘ break out ’ will itself rapidly become established between levees . |
| 15 | If it is stimulated every time we sit down then tremendous tensions will build up over the years ; these will give rise to neck and back problems , and will also be responsible for many headaches and migraines . |
| 16 | It remains to be seen whether the archaeologists will win out over the urban planners . |
| 17 | Even though you have checked things over thoroughly , there is always the distinct possibility that something electrical will pack up over the Christmas period . |
| 18 | You add up all the bills you know will come in over the next year — plus a bit more for contingencies — and divide by twelve . |
| 19 | Individual cells may crawl about over the surface of the sponge like amoebae . |
| 20 | Even so , considerable errors can build up over the period of ten or more years that elapses between one Census date and the time when the finalized results of the next Census can be used . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It often gets me when I am in a high building or can look down over the city , or sometimes at a station when there is another journey to begin . |
| 23 | Perched on the mountain close to the main square of Ravello , guests here can look out over the highly productive vineyards and dazzling blue sea . |
| 24 | This is the ice-cream tent and this is the Ladies and changing rooms for some of the performers and instead of looking at the back of the bar during the interval , the audience can look out over the rolling Oxfordshire countryside . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've made some contacts that I can follow up over the next couple of weeks . |
| 26 | But she has this threatening jacket , a dark linen one which she can pop on over the Lycra , and it has big shoulders and big assertive buttons and nips in at the waist , and this means , ‘ Fun I may be , but business is business and I will rip your arms and legs off in the boardroom if you let me . ’ |