Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | This week , he was relief-managing a pub in Rotherham and I 'd arranged to drive over to see him after 11 p.m . |
| 2 | If machines could be taught to plan over a chessboard , maybe they could do it in a factory as well . |
| 3 | The edge of the crater was marked with huge splinters of stone torn up from the bedrock under the sands ; they stood like broken teeth around the scene , pointing at the sky or fallen slanted over . |
| 4 | Altogether the new £28 million rail link is expected to carry over 1.5 million passengers a year . |
| 5 | The annual DMC event is followed on November 10 by the Technics DJ Championship World Mixing Finals at London 's Ministry Of Sounds , which is expected to attract over 1,000 DJs from around the world . |
| 6 | In the eighth century , as the Franks had imposed their domination over those they called " subject peoples " , Frankish kings had come to rule over many regna , not only far west as well as east of the Rhine , but beyond the Alps and beyond the Pyrenees . |
| 7 | Although primarily designed to win over Catholic waverers , the new title was also preferred by some Protestant zealots who argued that only Jesus Christ could be the head of the church , as well as by those who believed that Elizabeth 's gender debarred her from assuming a quasi-episcopal role . |
| 8 | ‘ Rocky V ’ , for example , was expected to gross over $100m at the box office . |
| 9 | THE vehicle registration 1 RAT is expected to fetch over £7,000 at an auction in Birmingham later this month . |
| 10 | It 's expected to fetch over £1,000 . |
| 11 | Mechanical tillage ( apart from rolling ) is designed to turn over soil or break down clods into tilth crumbs of a suitable size . |
| 12 | Alton Ants at last found their true form and gained a long awaited win over Saracens . |
| 13 | If a woman has lived with a man for over fifty years , why should she be expected to get over his death in a week ? |
| 14 | It included the introduction of new taxes , the raising of charges for fuel and power , the maintenance of petrol prices at a high level ( despite the unrest caused by recent increases — see p. 37919 ) , and the establishment of a 9 per cent duty on imports , which last was expected to raise over $700,000,000 annually . |
| 15 | A Navy sailing master was permitted to take over command only for the duration of the brief period when it was necessary for the Simonova to be manoeuvred to allow technical officers to service the weapons and telemetry mounted on the platforms . |
| 16 | Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke is expected to take over leading responsibility for regulation of the press . |
| 17 | Furthermore , peripherals used by each are likely to be drawn together into a single , compatible product line and Fujitsu is expected to take over more responsibility for the development of ICL and Amdahl 's mainframe CPU architectures . |
| 18 | As the eldest son of a wealthy sake and soy-sauce producer in conservative Nagoya , he was expected to take over the family business — and perhaps become the 15th generation of Morita Mayors in the local community . |
| 19 | Indonesia , which was expected to take over the chair of the movement from Yugoslavia in September 1992 , was elected by the Larnaca meeting as de facto chair with immediate effect . |
| 20 | Lou Macari is now expected to take over at Celtic on Wednesday as the two parties continue to discuss Macari 's wish to nominate his own assistant . |
| 21 | What impact the British offer would have on the brain drain , which is expected to push over 10 per cent of the population out of the colony before China 's 1997 takeover , was not clear . |
| 22 | As The Beatles rose inexorably , so did Smith and by the time ‘ his mates ’ were splitting up in 1970 , he was approached to take over the editorship of NME . |
| 23 | Many of these stood at junctions where passengers might be expected to stop over before continuing their journey 's . |
| 24 | Ridley had stated in an interview with the right-wing Spectator magazine which had appeared two days previously that European economic and monetary union was " a German racket designed to take over the whole of Europe " and must be " thwarted " . |
| 25 | Sometimes I would hear conversations about the war when some of the older men in the dale came to chat and have a cup of tea in the kitchen with Uncle Tommy , who had come to take over Low Birk Hatt after Father died . |
| 26 | Women had come to take over men 's jobs as platform , goods , and parcel-porters , ticket-collectors , and engine cleaners . |
| 27 | Victoria had been playing gin rummy with her , and Shelley had come to take over . |
| 28 | Another American writer , Walter Lippmann , argued that in the liberal democracies " mass opinion " had come to dominate over governments , and that this represented " a functional derangement of the relationship between the mass of the people and the government " . |
| 29 | The construction of a new brewhouse , designed to produce over 2.5 million pints a day , was just one of the major projects undertaken . |
| 30 | ‘ Now she feels the time has come to hand over to someone else . |