Example sentences of "[vb pp] over for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the high side there was a grey Buick that I had seen Harvey driving and a long black Lincoln Continental that looked like the President of the United States had come over for pizza and beer . |
| 2 | Even when Liz had come over for Mr Harding 's funeral , which had taken place just over a year ago , Laura had n't felt able to explain all of the difficulties she had faced . |
| 3 | And they must of come over for Christmas dinner . |
| 4 | The Thames at Abingdon was barely fishable for the Mick 's Tackle Open with the bottom areas of the March length frozen over for the full 50 yard width . |
| 5 | One of the worst winters we had was at the start of the war , in 1940 , when the river was frozen over for six weeks right to the end of March and there was two feet of snow . |
| 6 | It would have taken 25 years to complete and required the Thames to be frozen over for about seventeen years , to prevent the river flooding the deep foundations . |
| 7 | In 1991 the previous year 's ceiling of 23.65 million b/d was rolled over for another year , but no country quotas were set . |
| 8 | However you organise your checking routine , it is crucial to present written work which has been checked over for spelling . |
| 9 | ‘ I told you not to ask , ’ he said when the line was grudgingly given over for another fifty seconds . |
| 10 | In addition , there are also certain to be one or two early mistakes which will need rectifying , and plans to be mulled over for next spring 's display . |
| 11 | small wonder the next England manager agonised so long over a job that any other candidate ( were there any ? ) would have mulled over for about half a second . |
| 12 | In front gardens , lawns are paved over for off-street parking space and in the road more intrusion results from signs , barriers and other traffic-related street furniture . |
| 13 | There are indications that the mill was turned over for a time for saw milling , and possibly even cider production . |
| 14 | Most of it has n't been turned over for years . |
| 15 | All of these were admitted to the smallpox hospital , which was , however , later demolished , when the ground was built over for industrial purposes . |
| 16 | I had the kitchen made over for Joan . |
| 17 | It proved to be a surprisingly accurate account of what in the event did happen , and is outlined here to illustrate the way in which , in one corner of Oxfordshire , changes which had been argued over for a decade could be effected in a relatively short time . |
| 18 | Although this has been argued over for fifty years , the size of this ancient catastrophe now seems incontrovertible . |
| 19 | Russian workers from Uzbekistan pour concrete and fit window frames but eight months after the earthquake , not one was ready to be handed over for use . |
| 20 | Mr Tristan Garel-Jones , Foreign Office Minister , will join his French counterpart , M Roland Dumas , in insisting that the two Lockerbie suspects be handed over for trial in the West . |
| 21 | ‘ Draw them under shadow ’ may mean no more than ‘ pull them out of the hall and into the dark ’ , but it implies also ‘ going we know not where ’ , dying and being handed over for ever to the powers of evil . |
| 22 | A cheque for £3,017 was handed over for the Great Ormond Street Hospital . |
| 23 | Three thousand tabs of Ecstasy were handed over for a thick wad of notes . |
| 24 | On Jan. 16 the round table talks immediately ran into problems when the UDF representatives accused the BCP of reneging on promises made during the preliminary discussions that the opposition would be allowed its own newspaper and access to state television and radio , and that a building would be handed over for use as a UDF headquarters . |
| 25 | When working by hand , it is only necessary to record those values that change upon iteration ; in this text the values that change are denoted by bold print , but the other numbers are copied over for clarity . |
| 26 | After the concert , guests went into the garden which had been completely tented over for supper . |
| 27 | And er course we went about three weeks before that then we got invited over for tea . |
| 28 | 10–17 Jesus violates the taboo against healing on the sabbath by healing a woman who has been bent over for many years , justifying this on the grounds that it is even more urgent to help a fellow human being , a woman , than to rescue an animal that has fallen into a ditch ( an exception allowed under the law ) . |
| 29 | All the defendants were bound over for two years on a personal bail of £350 and some were also fined . |
| 30 | O'Doherty , who had not taken part in the obstruction , was fined £5 for allegedly leading the singing of ‘ We shall overcome ’ ( a charge he denied ) , and the others were bound over for two years on £50 personal bail . |