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Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] over " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	He passed some coins over without counting , staring stupidly at the eyes that looked hurt with expected rejection , as if the man knew what would be said to put him off .
2	That is my Game Boy four times over and even yeah four and a half times over .
3	Hewlett-Packard Co has won a $125m contract with Europe 's largest telecommunications carrier , Deutsche Bundespost 's Telekom , Darmstadt , for 1,000 PA RISC Unix workstations , printers and plotters : the German giant will move some applications over from the IBM and Siemens Nixdorf mainframes it uses .
4	When they see it they 'll stop any development , ’ Nigel said , turning some knuckle-bones over in his hands .
5	‘ I need to take some things over to the hospital for Emma , ’ he said .
6	‘ She had to take some things over to the hospital for Adam . ’
7	So they fetched some mares over in the morning .
8	We 've got some friends over from Canada
9	You 've got three minutes , a few seconds over , and then you 'll be asked to stop .
10	yeah and you should turn the top few inches over and there was what he called the
11	Winnie — she was half seas over ; so that her teeth were loose and her speech was slurred — said , ‘ Rab 's right sensitive about his health , so he is .
12	We brought some supplies over with us when we went , but money is needed .
13	The few formalities over , she gathered up her luggage and made her way outside into the baking sun .
14	Lorne tried chanting a few limericks over and over , but we never saw the eels again , though we dived there often .
15	Getting such truths over should not be impossible .
16	Now I had the first set of these dividers over in this country .
17	Then I can just use these books over and over again .
18	Eliot 's own letter contained , besides some telling points , an amusing conclusion in which he invited Miss West , in order to ‘ talk these matters over quietly ’ to ‘ come up and see me some time ’ .
19	The general aim was to hand these problems over , if only at a conceptual level in the first instance , to the North and South Devon district management teams .
20	Alix turned these things over in her mind .
21	‘ It is as well to get these things over with at once , ’ Alain said coldly .
22	Now then , let's see put your feet straight on the footrest so I can tuck these things over .
23	And we 've seen these cats over and over again .
24	Okay , so what we 're looking at over these two days and what in order for you to be able to say yes we 've achieved the objectives er by tomorrow is how to use that time that we have to prepare to the most er efficient and effective so that e the preparation you know when you 've prepared it that yes when I stand up to speak I 'm gon na be able to put these points over effectively and make the presentation memorable .
25	They then persuaded user groups , voluntary bodies , and churches to take these services over .
26	Please note that you do not have to open the rings to put these markers over , though you should after you 've done it the first time , erm , it should become easier with practice , let me put it that way , okay .
27	And erm we eventually got these things working and er I got the contract along with Jack to turn these pans over , you see ?
28	BRITISH STEEL yesterday snapped up the country 's biggest steel stockholding company in a £330m deal which gives it control of 20 per cent of the UK market and turns two Lancashire businessmen into millionaires many times over .
29	A serpentine commode , the central section of which pulled out as a silver table , and a Russian mirror of the 1790s supported on twisting ormolu snakes could have been sold many times over .
30	Evidence suggests that there is a sizeable amount of foreign currency held in Poland — it is thought between one and two billion US dollars is currently banked with the financial institutions , but the undeclared amount almost certainly swells that figure many times over .