Example sentences of "go [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well he goes like lightning over there |
| 2 | The martins were now coming and going in numbers over the water . |
| 3 | When 343 workers were sacked last February for going on strike over lay-offs and cuts in benefits ( 80% were women , some with 35 years of service ) , 270 others rushed to take their jobs . |
| 4 | You know , moaning about these blokes like the postman going on strike over a seven per cent rise . |
| 5 | They were talking about going on strike over it , about it anyway . |
| 6 | ‘ I had considered going to California over the winter but I realised it was n't necessary . |
| 7 | So ehm , so , what she going to work over there then . |
| 8 | Successive governments have refused to implement the recommendation of the Evershed Committee in 1953 that the costs of going to law over issues of general public importance should be paid out of public funds . |
| 9 | As a very old colleague points out : ‘ It 's better than going to war over it . ’ |
| 10 | His silence about Megara is not complete : Pericles is described as telling the Athenians that they will not be going to war over a trifle , if they refuse to rescind the Megarian decree as the Spartans demand . |
| 11 | FOUR ex-servicemen have been booted out of a British Legion social club after going to war over what they believe are missing funds of up to £250,000 . |
| 12 | In this way many kept an account going at Gieves over a period of years for a modest monthly sum of two or three pounds . |
| 13 | It would not be appropriate in a book of this kind to go into details over the clinical manifestations and classifications of mental disorder , although the booklist at the end of the chapter contains some introductory reading on the subject . |
| 14 | I 'm only here under duress because I did n't want to go to court over this nonsense . |
| 15 | A stunned Mrs Hanley said as she left court : ‘ We never wanted anybody to go to prison over this . ’ |
| 16 | If Marshal Piłsudski and Colonel Beck , the Polish leaders in Warsaw , were upset that France had not given them stronger backing over the Wilia crisis , then they were also relieved to find that Hitler was not prepared to go to war over the city — at least not yet . |
| 17 | ‘ But it 's not decent to go to war over something like this , ’ I screamed , thumping my fist on the table so that the cups on the dresser rattled . |
| 18 | He did not expect that he would have to go to war over the Holy Places , but if he was called upon to do so , he thought that he could produce the men , guns and money he would need for victory . |
| 19 | Hemmed in by a board school , a gasworks , a depot for Bass ale , and the neighbouring St Pancras Station , King 's Cross Goods Station was proclaimed by its retired outdoor Goods Manager to be in appearance ‘ prosaic enough — you ca n't go into ecstasies over the beauty of its situation or the classic lines of its architecture ’ . |
| 20 | Sequent wo n't currently go into details over products , but says it will be ‘ leveraging its technology and knowhow ’ gained from its line of high-end Intel-based multi-processor Symmetry systems , aimed at corporate users looking to downsize their mainframes . |
| 21 | He would n't go into details over the phone but he said it had something to do with Bernard . |
| 22 | ‘ A lot of hard work has gone into Darlington over the past two years . |
| 23 | Overall , 10,000 jobs will go in Europe over the next two years . |
| 24 | He died before he went to trial over the matter . |
| 25 | I spent holidays at home , but went to school over here , and then into the Army . |
| 26 | None of our family went to school over here . |
| 27 | They went to Morocco over the 1952 Christmas period , partly because Paul Bowles ' The Sheltering Sky had made Morocco and especially Tangiers the place to go . |
| 28 | Reverting to my analogy of the fire brigade , either my brigade went on strike over all those pork pies and rich , creamy cakes I used to eat , or they had the wrong directions . |
| 29 | They took it on their on their They went with their ponies in their little barrels you see , and they went on horseback over it . |
| 30 | Britain and France had gone to war over Poland when it was invaded by Hitler in 1939 , there were numerous Polish-Americans concerned about its future , and a Polish ‘ government-in-exile ’ already existed in London . |