Example sentences of "over the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | She handed over the small package , and then ran her gaze once more over the chaos in the office . |
| 2 | David Sutherfield — who was a political counsellor at the US embassy in east Beirut until American diplomats were evacuated a month ago — arrived here over the weekend in the company of another American official for talks with Hussein Husseini , the Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament . |
| 3 | CONFIDENCE in Derby favourite Tenby continued to wane over the weekend in response to his poor workout . |
| 4 | TWO Israeli soldiers died in ambushes and troops shot dead four Palestinians over the weekend in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip . |
| 5 | Two Israeli soldiers were killed in ambushes and troops shot dead four Palestinians over the weekend in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip . |
| 6 | Well well I do , I heard it over the weekend in fact , that I can er , have er , another BUPA medical to start with . |
| 7 | ‘ Just a few of the chaps and chapesses , darling , ’ over the phone in the late afternoon when she had purged wine stains and ashtrays , boxed up the empties , made the kitchen immaculate yet again . |
| 8 | The netting thrown over the tree in the background is obviously intended to trap these newcomers as they arrive to mob the owl . |
| 9 | Ruth pulled the coverlet straight over the bed in No. 4 . |
| 10 | It is understood representations have been made to the BBC over the issue in recent days but the matter remains unresolved , according to senior Church figures . |
| 11 | The ECJ has rather wavered over the issue in relation to the Transfers Directive . |
| 12 | But if the defendant lost , he was ordered to pay his outstanding debt by instalments and if he defaulted on any one of them , he had to pay over the rest in one lump . |
| 13 | Surely I should be over the field in no time . |
| 14 | ‘ When I do go out somewhere special I like to go completely over the top in the glamour stakes — different hairdo , glittery accessories and high heels ’ |
| 15 | On this aspect of the story Mr Sale is an invaluable guide and teacher , but he goes well over the top in his determination to present Columbus as the representative of a devilish western world driven only by the desire to rape , grab and despoil a land of innocence . |
| 16 | ‘ I really do n't think this film goes over the top in any way . |
| 17 | Colin Falck 's Cat Gone from Memorabilia ( Taxus , £5.95 ) , by contrast , goes courageously over the top in its eloquent last verse demonstration of how death and depression transfer emotion and unhinge reason : Come back my love . |
| 18 | It was Mellor , as junior Home Office Minister , who was left by Mrs Thatcher to pick up the pieces when the last government went badly over the top in its determination to reshape television by deregulation , irrespective of quality . |
| 19 | When new they are all highly water repellent and dry quickly — provided you have n't gone over the top in a bog hold and got them saturated . |
| 20 | If you generally want the views of the public it is no good trying to false those views through a straight jacket of your own to make it what you think there views should be unless of course they go right over the top in which they I do n't think that 's happened so far . . |
| 21 | Well what he did say was do n't you know do n't go over the top in criticizing that because |
| 22 | We regard the left critique of pluralism as cogent , but it goes over the top in seeing everything about pluralism as completely wrong since it is the case that an open competitive model of interest-group politics does fit the facts on certain issues . |
| 23 | At the same time I think some people are going well over the top in slagging off Wilko . |
| 24 | The rivers ' safety record is reckoned to be quite good and the authority wants tyo ensure that this wweeekend people don'ty do over the top in case they wind up going under . |
| 25 | The Pope also presided over the opening in Santo Domingo of the Fourth General Latin American Episcopal Conference , held on Oct. 12-28 . |
| 26 | But he makes no secret of his pleasure over the ruling in the Guggenheim case . |
| 27 | Sprinkle the yeast over the water in a cup and leave to stand for a few minutes in a warm place before stirring to completely dissolve the yeast . |
| 28 | Behind him Grey Sombrero took a crashing fall at the Chair and broke his shoulder , but all eyes were on Crisp as he skipped over the water in front of the exhilarated spectators in the stands and swung out towards the second circuit . |
| 29 | The one remaining club , Squires , over the water in Catford , shut almost exactly as I started the book . |
| 30 | Angling for the deal that it has sought for some time now , UK firm IXI Ltd , Cambridge , is starting to cast groundbait all over the water in an attempt to land its catch . |