Example sentences of "over [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are you going over that firm about the money ? |
| 2 | I ca n't get over that screw in the woodwork . |
| 3 | And have er implemented something called the backup server to get over that hurdle in the System Ten release . |
| 4 | We may negotiate access over that road with you . |
| 5 | But , in the UUAC there was unanimity that it did not wish to preside over that kind of success . |
| 6 | So I er , I politely told him what he could do with that , well , I was eating his dinner and I could n't be too rude to him , but erm , you know , when er when , when confronted , I do n't give ground over that kind of thing . |
| 7 | How on earth could she have accused him over that conversation with Salvo ? |
| 8 | " I 'm going to my father 's , " she said again , slowly , still puzzling over that message from her buried self , that sang in her fingertips and up her arm . |
| 9 | There were no Disneyland walkers over that part of Skye . |
| 10 | It provides a weighty diplomatic instrument in an overall European policy aimed at maximising influence over that part of Europe which the USSR does not control . |
| 11 | We prop the grating open with another branch and spend the next half-hour pulling fallen branches and logs from all over that part of the hill , dragging them into the clump of bushes and throwing them into the shaft ; we snap dead branches off trees and bushes and haul and peel living ones off ; we scrape together armfuls of dry leaf litter and throw those over the edge of the chimney , too ; everything goes under the grating and down into the shaft . |
| 12 | I tell you what we 'd have the best house round here if a I ca n't get over that lady over the road though and her husband . |
| 13 | A new Jump Pattern has been worked out and some new races created specifically for horses whose optimum trip is two and a half miles , a distance not previously catered for at championship level both over hurdles and fences , although there will still be nothing for novice chasers over that distance at the Cheltenham Festival . |
| 14 | All subsequent races have been held over that distance with minor fluctuations . |
| 15 | He began to retrace his tracks , drawing as he went , back over that country around Zweeloo that was entirely covered , as far as the eye could see , ‘ with young corn , the very , very tenderest green I know . ’ |
| 16 | America 's new attitude towards India may result in its having a great influence over that country in its relations with the United States ' old ally , Pakistan . |
| 17 | Oh so we follow the path and do n't go over that bridge over the road ? |
| 18 | Especially out there over that shop in Kings Dainton . |
| 19 | And yet this particular quarrel , now that it was under rigorous scrutiny , had n't arisen over that matter at all , but over something else entirely , the question of where Nenna could possibly have put his squash racquets while he was away . |
| 20 | Shall we talk about it over that cup of tea ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Now I know what passed between you over that cup of coffee . ’ |
| 22 | It must therefore be recognised that a court which has jurisdiction under article 5(3) over an action in so far as it is based on tort or delict does not have jurisdiction over that action in so far as it is not so based . |
| 23 | He had lived with his past for the best part of fifty years , and his book tells what he had come to know of it over that interval of time , with help from the theories of Marx and Freud . |
| 24 | Stories simply handed down by word of mouth over that length of time are likely to be less accurate than those written down from the beginning . |
| 25 | I am very sensitive to my hon. Friend 's reference to Warren Hastings ' because it was Edmund Burke , a kinsman of mine , who prosecuted him over that length of time . |
| 26 | It 's very rare if ever that one finds a continuing document of a place and people of a particular space maintained over that length of time . |
| 27 | The maximum amount of sediment likely to be deposited over that period along the coast generally is about 30 centimetres and we know that hurricanes will certainly rearrange that amount of material . |
| 28 | ‘ It used to , but working with Dave over that period of time means we 've mostly solved the problems . |
| 29 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that that is an impressive increase over that period of years ? |
| 30 | The problem is that we seem to have dropped the Health Service off more and more and more over that period of time , and I think , to be fair , the programme sums it all up , two motions on the Health Service . |