Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because they were only half the size of a mature Thoroughbred , they were not tall enough to see over their stable doors or internal walls so that when someone opened the stable doors , the weanlings would attempt to climb the walls in sheer terror ! |
| 2 | His hair was dark and long enough to fall over his eyebrows when it dropped forward . |
| 3 | The Dean and his pet labrador are both depicted wearing dog collars ; the bursar , with ears big enough to flap over to Christ Church , is seen tightly clenching two money bags . |
| 4 | We were a finely balanced investment , threatening constantly to topple over into the realms of demand and expenditure . |
| 5 | No scheme will be worth much if farmers are allowed merely to give over their least productive land . |
| 6 | The Tories believe they have time enough to put over that case . |
| 7 | Better to turn over in his mind the arrangements he and Bicker had organised , to search for loose ends , gaps in the plan . |
| 8 | Since the birth of their sons , Felix ( now aged four ) and Max ( one ) , the Roberts were lucky enough to take over the raised ground floor which not only gave them more space but also allowed them vital access to the garden . |
| 9 | She stayed with us for a month while we regained our strength , doing all the cooking and washing until my mother was fit enough to take over . |
| 10 | She 's sixteen , old enough to take over the housekeeping . ’ |
| 11 | The other way to find out is to cover each eye in turn ; if there 's a squint , the bad eye will generally move outwards to take over the job of seeing . |
| 12 | He added : " Merely to take over this apparatus would therefore profoundly contradict the ethics and very nature of our revolution . " |
| 13 | Just before leaving Doune he had heard from his elder sister Agnes , Countess of Dunbar and March , that her peculiar husband had now entered into a treasonable arrangement with Edward of England , not only to hand over Dunbar Castle to the English but actually to strengthen it first , at the Plantagenet 's expense . |
| 14 | I for one am dying of thirst and hot enough to boil over . |
| 15 | Small enough to step over , as Highfield 's step-over trees testify . |
| 16 | A fence made of tree limbs , a pogo stick , three golf clubs and some broken implements was draped with barbed wire low enough to step over . |
| 17 | Because shoe laces are hard to tie but easy to trip over . |
| 18 | And Serena — glamour girl of Fiat Uno adverts — tried best to gloss over her partner 's scruffy appearance at their first photo-call . |
| 19 | Frequent nights on the tiles , punch-ups and eager girlfriends were clearly taking their toll on him and Manuel said it was taking Sombro longer to get over his binges when he came home . |
| 20 | ‘ With a good wife and a good place and a son already to take over — ‘ |
| 21 | The Ministry is due shortly to take over the countryside premium scheme . |
| 22 | Since it took so long for Dobson finally to take over in Macclesfield , it may be either that he returned to Stockport as Master from some period or that the Goldsmiths forgot that they had appointed Escolmbe , or that Escolmbe himself never took up his duties . |
| 23 | Now when you say right across , I mean you you 've ta seen the photos of , of er shell pitted ground with the nineteen fourteen eighteen war , well that 's how Bentley was then cos it had been rooted for coal and nineteen twenty six strike everybody got it all out cos there was a lot of top surface coal , course it was just left there was a lot of mole holes , stuff from the furnaces when they tip tipped the slag , it was up and down and there was Buttons Brook , was n't it Buttons Brook across there , called Buttons Brook there was a pool across there called Leg of Lamb but I mean it , it er you can imagine what I 'm trying to say , what the ground was like to go over in pitch black night , to go over there and we went out and course we was issued with er ammunition which was one of the o only times I can remember when we went really out prepared with live ammunition , and er we scouted and scouted till daybreak and we did n't find nothing . |
| 24 | The greatest test of this season has yet to come , when they play an English side with a dented pride and one where many players have still to get over their last defeat by Scotland three years ago . |
| 25 | THE commodity group , Berisford International , looked set yesterday to take over C&J Clark , the family-controlled shoemaker that has been wracked by internal feuding . |
| 26 | Accordingly she wrote to her favourite niece Lilian Baylis , then in South Africa , requesting that she should return home to take over the management of the theatre . |
| 27 | BRITAIN agreed yesterday to hand over £47 million in gold to Latvia to compensate the Baltic state for lost assets deposited with the Bank of England before the Second World War . |
| 28 | Military units have frequently carried out arrests and failed promptly to hand over detainees to the police — a number have been held beyond the 72-hour-limit . |
| 29 | ComputerWorld quotes Intel Corp architectural manager Daniel Hoskins , speaking at a Unisys Cube and Use user group conference , as saying the 66MHz Pentium as been tested internally to run over 112 MIPS . |
| 30 | Nikos 's mind began automatically to turn over the possibilities ; as it always did . |