Example sentences of "[vb infin] over for " in BNC.
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| 1 | TELL your friends that you are going to the Cape Verde Islands and , in all probability , their eyes will glaze over for several seconds while they frantically try to recall their long-forgotten school geography . |
| 2 | Sometimes his eyes would glaze over for a second or two as if he were out of their world altogether . |
| 3 | When he came back shortly last year he was fast enough to get back to Ruel Fox and let Fox fall over for a penalty . |
| 4 | Who shall we have over for dinner ? |
| 5 | During the famous Intermezzo the conductor asked Mascagni if he would take over for a moment . |
| 6 | Often the Phantasms — daemon-masked , each dabbed with different costly scents , and gowned in luminous silk appliquéd with lascivious emblems — would bomb around the broad upper avenues on their jet-trikes , and through almost deserted midnight malls , seeking stylised mayhem with another brat gang or hunting for an odour bar or an elegant brothel which they could take over for a few hours before fleeing just ahead of a Judge patrol . |
| 7 | Clyde Walcott , the former Test batsman who is now chairman of the West Indies Board , will take over for the remainder of the series . |
| 8 | We could also decide on points where the accompaniment could take over for a brief period , or perhaps form a dialogue with the melody . |
| 9 | ‘ You could let Rose take over for a little . ’ |
| 10 | And this is the other aspect of Freud 's debt to Darwin which I mentioned at the beginning but said I would hold over for later . |
| 11 | Mm Oh that would be alright if we go yeah we can all go over for a nice little run out |
| 12 | ‘ We 'll come over for tea . |
| 13 | Oh , the dear love , thought Leith , having just realised that , heartsick for a sight of Rosemary , he must have been hoping that Rosemary was back and that she might , if asked , come over for a cup of coffee . |
| 14 | What did you come over for ? |
| 15 | it 's that sort of time of the year when you have all sorts of people there , but I mean she 's such , so pathetic , words gon na come over for lunch , I mean we have them over every year sort of Christmas time |
| 16 | It is er And get Madge and Tom if you like , er , when we get , we 'll nip over for the week , you know ? |
| 17 | ‘ I was just about to ring you , dear , to see if we could pop over for the day , just to say goodbye — but I 've been so busy these last few days , what with one thing and another . |
| 18 | Yeah it it means that you can point out that it makes it a lot simpler for someone to just pop over for a night and crash out on the floor . |