Example sentences of "and [adj] over the " in BNC.

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1 So then I 'll need to go and get my pads and my bandages so that I can put this right , you 'll need two of these for this bandage , the first one , you open out so that the pad is going to go into the palm of her hand and that over the top and she is going to grab hold of the other one like that , okay , now we 've got the wad in there and she 's hanging on to it , but it was the sterile part of the bandage as I undid it that went on to the wound , there is no time for dressing here is there ?
2 And buy a sheep and come home with it and that over the bridge with it , all along and along er that road there and th and when we used to come from that school in , he used to be coming with a sheep on the string like this and the poor thing , I used to look at the old sheep and he often used to be tired you see .
3 United States efforts to broker a Middle East peace plan floundered in March when Israel 's national unity coalition collapsed under the pressure of differences between Likud and Labour over the country 's Palestinian policy .
4 It is a full moon , yellow and low over the trees on the Heath .
5 hundred and odd over the top , so it 's gon na be doubled that
6 The project is completed by a brief survey of the debate which took place in the 1950s and 60s over the likely impact of new production technologies .
7 I 'd finish a bottle in three days and another over the weekend .
8 Well in actual fact to te to tell you the honest truth we 've been so busy one way and another over the weekends have n't we ?
9 By the time the demo was over I was nearly nauseous at the presumptuousness of these notions and despondent over the lack of scepticism in the room .
10 She grabbed Steve 's sleeve , their eyes in unison watched the ball sail through the air and high over the net .
11 And then the tables faded away , and the music shook me , and I forgot where I was in the joy of raising my voice above the talk and the traffic and the whole street and high over the awning into the sky , with nothing but strummed chords on the guitar for company .
12 Second , he was very much a Romantic , with all the Romantic 's preference for the vital , inward and spontaneous over the static , outward and formal .
13 Given the British Government 's determination to provide official aid to democratic countries — we are seeing the emergence of a growing number of them — does my hon. Friend agree that it would be proper and popular over the next five years to halve the gap between our official aid and the United Nations target ?
14 The sense of solidarity has developed and hardened over the years .
15 These waterways wind their way through countryside often inaccessible by road and unchanged over the years .
16 Press it down lightly and smooth over the top with a palette knife .
17 Spoon the mixture over the fruit and smooth over the surface .
18 Secure the tails to the bodies of the whales with grey-tinted royal icing and smooth over the joints .
19 A chin I could write a prelude about firm and fine over the symphony of your neck .
20 The significance of base protonation in the destabilisation effect of d 3C A was investigated by measuring the T m values for duplexes 1 and 4 over the pH range of 5 to 8 ( Figure 3 ) .
21 The cat leaped lightly on to the bed and padded over the bodiless sleeves .
22 When observed from the rear , the trailing edge is gull shaped and from the side , the angle of attack created by the bridle is very steep over the central delta and shallow over the outer panels .
23 Central Government has taken more and more control of what local councils can do , and in particular has control of the amount of money that local councils can spend erm more and more over the years .
24 It has been developed and refined over the last four years by engineers at the company 's parent company , General Motors .
25 A dispute then arose between Cenwulf and Wulfred over the Kentish houses of Reculver and Minster-in-Thanet , and the pope seems to have suspended the archbishop at the king 's request .
26 Barclays is expected to shed 2,500 jobs this year and 10,000 by 1995 , and National Westminster 4,000 worldwide by the end of 1992 and 15,000 over the next five years .
27 In 1938 Lewis took a job in a Welsh secondary school , but could see the shadow of war approaching and worried over the problem of pacifism : ‘ I have a deep sort of fatalist feeling that I 'll go .
28 One of her arms lies outside the covers , hanging out pale and naked over the edge of the bed .
29 Far and wide over the common-grazing 's green undulations the encampments spread , colourful tents and pavilions erected for the lords , chiefs and great ones , banners fluttering in the October breeze , cooking-fires smoking , horse-lines being watered , smiths busy shoeing and beating out iron for spear and axe heads , troops and squadrons practising formation riding , infantry deploying to form squares , hedgehogs and wheelings-in-line , trumpets and horns sounding , captains shouting commands — and half the citizenry and dogs of Edinburgh out to watch and add to the din .
30 They were both Swiss , both Reformed ( i.e. Calvinist ) , both theologians rather than historians or biblical specialists , and both men of immense intellectual power and energy , capable of ranging far and wide over the whole spread of Christian thought in search of the resources and materials to fashion the theology which had to be reconstructed .
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