Example sentences of "[pers pn] be over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aha , I 'm over the hundred thousand I mean . |
| 2 | So if you are dismissed before the agreed age , you might have a claim for breach of contract , but not for unfair dismissal if you are over the normal retiring age for colleagues in your class of work . |
| 3 | You were over the hot plate all the time . |
| 4 | If Kylie is happy with her work , she considers she 's over the main hurdle . |
| 5 | Whatever the complications may have been , and whatever those theatre nurses may have thought , the fact was that Kirsty had suffered no physical ill-effects once she was over the post-operative period . |
| 6 | When Corkill , of Darlington , Co Durham , was stopped by police , the boy was in her car and she was over the drink-drive limit , Teesside magistrates heard . |
| 7 | At a guess I 'd say we 're over the Swiss Wilds . ’ |
| 8 | We 've been together eight years now — so we 're over the seven year itch , not that I had one . |
| 9 | A total of six and a half hours and we were over the small , dying town of Wyndham . |
| 10 | Again we paused , although now we were over the worst stretch of hill . |
| 11 | And the local authorities also we have government policy again we have the situation that Wage Councils which have agreed increases for our members within the prison service , do n't know whether they 'll be allowed to implement them because they are over the one and a half percent . |
| 12 | And when they were over the blue Aegean sea , many miles from Antioch , he circled widely , descended , and alighted on a small mountainous island , on soft green grass beside a grove of apple trees . |
| 13 | And her father 's answer to the question given himself had been : those tests at the secretarial college were making his daughter nervy ; and the quicker they were over the better . |
| 14 | This is an extremely bold theory , but in the present stage of historical and anthropological knowledge it is not possible to say whether Marx of Engels were clearly wrong , as they were over primitive promiscuity , or by and large right , as they were over the gentile constitution . |
| 15 | Warm things are said in the flush of the campaign but now that it 's over the first question the Tories should ask is how it would look to the country if a victorious party launched into a frontal assault on the BBC in the wake of its victory . |
| 16 | And he gets about , he did n't say what he got but it 's over the twenty three thousand drawings that er they 're worried about the level of er tax , you know , for the next |
| 17 | It was over the southern Mercians that Oswiu , king of the northern Angles , later established Penda 's son , Peada , in the aftermath of Penda 's death at the battle of the Winwaed ( HE Ill , 24 ) ( see below , pp. 96–7 ) . |
| 18 | It was over the next few years that he started to produce his finest work . |
| 19 | He was over the legal limit , he was driving that car and he killed that little girl . |
| 20 | He would be even more so when he was over the spotty stage . |
| 21 | He was over the drink-drive limit and had a previous conviction for careless driving . |