Example sentences of "would [vb infin] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From what I can see I 'd stay over the water for almost the whole trip . |
| 2 | I had no idea how old and crotchety she 'd become over the last few years . ’ |
| 3 | There was a bump and an awful squeal — I just knew I 'd run over the dog . |
| 4 | I 'd skim over the plaster anyway . |
| 5 | Must have seen his name in the paper and reckoned he 'd pay over the odds to get it back today . ’ |
| 6 | Here too the legatee would be asked to give a guarantee that he would make over the property as requested . |
| 7 | If this pace kept up , 10,000 buildings classed as ‘ historic ’ would disappear over the next twenty-five years . |
| 8 | His soul would have no repose and would hover over the place , flying through the night . |
| 9 | In this form he would hover over the battlefield , dipping down to engulf enemy troopers , to consume those like fat in a furnace so that their smoke would rise up as incense into Dorn 's amber nostrils and by way of that conduit across time and space — beyond mortality itself — into the God-Emperor 's seared olfactory lobes so that the Divine Person would pause for a microsecond in his eternal scrutiny of the cosmos from his golden throne and would exclaim inwardly , ‘ What sweet fragrance is that ? |
| 10 | And certainly , trade book publishing did not do at all badly in nineteen ninety one in a recessionary environment and erm , there are , as Frank has mentioned particularly within Penguin , quite a lot of internal restructuring has gone on and one would hope that margins would improve over the next few years as a result of that . |
| 11 | The hole would appear over the next 20 years at Hemerdon , just outside Plymouth — the scene of western Europe 's biggest deposit of tungsten . |
| 12 | And I stuck this bit of ivy in hoping it would grow over the fence . |
| 13 | While officially rejecting the deadlines as an ultimatum and conceding only that it would negotiate over the vexed issue of border controls , Slovenia announced on July 5 that it had demobilized 10,000 members of its defence forces . |
| 14 | It was a long walk , almost a mile each way and as we neared the Lodge Gates , I would look over the Cemetery wall at old tombstones , bearing Christian names which to seemed so strange , Ezekiel , Zachariah , Obidiah and many similar . |
| 15 | Every few minutes a shell would swish over the rooftops to explode with a roar in the docks ; and more Syrian troops — nearer to the explosions and silhouetted against the sea — could be seen running beside the harbour wall . |
| 16 | For hours he would brood over the significance of the case brought against Captain Bligh . |
| 17 | I would hope over the next few years we actually do move towards increasing towards that but I think we will have some severe difficulties , particularly with the planning department where large numbers of members of the public do visit the area . |
| 18 | So you would n't agree with Tom Murphy who told Hot Press earlier this year that he would step over the body of a bleeding woman in order to finish a play ? |
| 19 | I had brought three beautiful children into this world without realising just how little control I would have over the quality of their lives . |
| 20 | This can increase acid precipitation by up to 100 per cent compared to that which would prevail over the natural vegetation of heather or moorland grasses . |
| 21 | Either the contract will already have been concluded , on whatever terms , in which case the delivery note 's terms are irrelevant anyway , or else , if the contract has not yet been concluded , the delivery note , being a later " shot " in the " battle " , would prevail over the conditions on the purchase order ( see the BRS case , above ) and the contract would come into existence when the buyer took delivery and signed the note . |
| 22 | Better to stroll back the way she had come , then perhaps she would cross over the road and look in the souvenir shop . |
| 23 | It would preside over a general election scheduled to take place at an unspecified date in the autumn , after a referendum on constitutional reforms on Sept. 4 and local elections on Oct. 16 . |
| 24 | Labour would preside over the entrenching of political correctness in the classroom . |
| 25 | In later years a ‘ bull queen ’ , or ‘ bull woman ’ , dressed all in blue and carrying a blue bull stick , would preside over the day 's activities and she would be responsible for raising money to provide the bull . |
| 26 | The Messiah of Aaron , descended from Israel 's first high priest in the Old Testament , would be a priestly figure , an ‘ Interpreter of the Law ’ who would preside over the people 's spiritual life . |
| 27 | This ran counter to the electoral law adopted on March 17 , which decided that a president would preside over the executive and legislature [ see p. 37327-28 ] . |
| 28 | This was now attempted , but I got nowhere near finding out , because none of them would estimate over the phone . |
| 29 | When things were at their worst and it appeared the disease would spread over the whole island , Sister Mary Jane Wilson offered , if the government would put into good order the hospital at Lazareto ( which had been damaged and looted during riots ) , to take the group of sisters of whom she was in charge to nurse the sick there . |
| 30 | They still expected to get cheap baked beans , but would pay over the odds for high-quality fresh food . |