Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is also the additional hazard that if the rope breaks at the towplane end , it may fall over the glider , causing damage . |
| 2 | may jump over the dog , |
| 3 | Distributing next year 's maintained payment between the two new companies has clearly not been an easy task and question marks must remain over the board 's decision just to split the 1993 payment straight down the middle with the promise that each company will not pay less than 27.5p a share . |
| 4 | damage it must do over the country |
| 5 | Kingsley Barrett , the Methodist , whom Ramsey had chosen for the faculty at Durham , wrote of his belief that a special providence must watch over the Church of England to give them at least some good bishops in spite of the deplorable method of their appointment . |
| 6 | My secretary said that Lindsay had just rung to say I should send over the goods ( our agreed coded message ) as soon as possible . |
| 7 | Sometimes the woodworker must step over the boundaries of his craft into the workings of other craftsmen . |
| 8 | A magnified detail drew attention to the skin ; although I could not understand the symbols appended , it looked as if the idea was that the outer skin should have less sensibility , by the withdrawal of nerves and capilliary blood-vessels from the outer layers of the epidermis — in fact , that a sort of hide should develop over the flesh which would render its owner fairly immune to extremes of temperature . |
| 9 | Bono understands and relishes the positive subversive possibilities of pop , and realises the piercing edge it should have over the advertising poster , the average sitcom . |
| 10 | An objective duty to balance potentially conflicting interests would present the courts with a near-impossible task and hence it is impracticable to impose one : not only would the court need to assess the likely impact on each group of a contested business policy , both in the short and long term , but also it would have to evaluate the policy in accordance with a theory which stipulated when one set of interests should prevail over the others . |
| 11 | And the good must triumph over the bad . |
| 12 | When they were riding up in the lift , Damian said , ‘ I think we should go over the minutes together . ’ |
| 13 | He went on : ‘ Looking back , the fact that we were the first to say Thatcher should go over the Lawson affair meant that we were in the game . |
| 14 | Braintree 's other target , at least in the fan 's eyes , will be to finish higher than rivals Sudbury , who must come over the border on Easter Monday . |
| 15 | Last night Britain 's leading childbirth writer Sheila Kitzinger said the couples involved in the British mix-up should get over the trauma . |
| 16 | I should be able to find that , even in the dark , and if I followed it I should stumble over the painter , or the dinghy herself . |
| 17 | Any disappointment he may feel over the delay has been more than compensated for by the news that tickets for this year 's event are already selling fast . |
| 18 | I 'll gloss over the afternoon 's shopping expedition . |
| 19 | Might fall over the wire . |
| 20 | Many priests have said they 'll resign over the issue once the legislation is given Parliament 's and the Queen 's assent . |
| 21 | And that muscle 'll grow over the top of that scar , and it 'll get rid of all that for you Jim . |
| 22 | So I 'll blur over the consequences for Ulster and hurry on to my next point — the re-establishment of an Irish House of Lords , the first since 1801 . |
| 23 | If you just stop here I 'll run over the road . |
| 24 | If you just stop here I 'll run over the road . |
| 25 | So you 're gon na have to , one day , Paul , you 'll look over the breakfast table and see wrinkles on me face and you 'll think , Oh , did I marry that ? |
| 26 | It took courage to do this as I was fearful the ants might swarm over the spade and run all the way up the handle to my hands . |
| 27 | A pleasant spoken young constable arrived at Riverview with a warrant and asked if he might look over the boat . |
| 28 | , so what we 'll do we 'll stop over the night and erm come home Friday morning , and mother 's |
| 29 | The statute affords a number of defences , which are intended to reflect the degree of control that the various participants might have over the transmission of the programme . |
| 30 | I do n't think he 'll go over the top with it |