Example sentences of "has [vb pp] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | " They have a first class officer who has leant over backwards to establish a low profile in dealing with immigrants . " |
| 2 | the dinosaur has fallen over . |
| 3 | The Water Authority , well , there again , they 're interested to some extent in forecast rainfall , but they 're more interested in erm how much rain has fallen over quite a big area and erm over what a , what sort of period , so we maintain all the rainfall statistics throughout the country . |
| 4 | This sense of deprivation has spilled over into civil conflict or war a sufficient number of times for it to be a continuing threat , or an on-going reality as in Chad , Sudan , Ethiopia , Burundi , Uganda and Somalia . |
| 5 | It has spilled over into this tournament because the foreign players have won it . |
| 6 | Sadly this latter process , desirable as it might be to stem the antics of a few irresponsible councils , has spilled over into Local Government generally with the unfortunate effect that many responsible authorities have been greatly frustrated in their legitimate desire to provide adequate services in their area . |
| 7 | Well he has rolled over . |
| 8 | The myth of the returned loved one is rooted deep in both Celtic and Norse mythology and has carried over into more recent times . |
| 9 | It snowed for nearly all those days , and the Rorim stream has frozen over . ’ |
| 10 | In The Reversing Earth Warlow tried to prove that , during the last 13,000 or so years , the Earth has flipped over on its axis about five times . |
| 11 | The group has since announced a reduction in staff of one-fifth and it has moved over completely to computer setting and direct input by journalists . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , Uniforum 's erstwhile executive director Ed Palmer , who 's due to retire next year , has moved over to head up the trade show and conferences , making way for his successor Richard Jarros ( UX No 410 ) . |
| 13 | The cards are now flicked through and , sure enough , each of the cards has turned over , and they are given to the children to hold before being collected . |
| 14 | The second and more exciting aspect is that , when it does so , the direction of spin is not affected : if the initial spin was clockwise , it will still be clockwise even after the toy has turned over . |
| 15 | In the past , Sun has turned over high-end graphics products to third parties because it has deemed growth at the high-end of that market to small to warrant its continued investment ( UX No 357 ) . |
| 16 | Dennis the Menace has turned over a new leaf — for a week ! |
| 17 | COMIC Mike Harding saw how Middlesbrough has turned over a new leaf at the weekend . |
| 18 | Since the white paper on broadcasting was published in November 1988 , the debate has raged over whether the proposals will mean real choice for the public , or simply undermine what is best about the present system . |
| 19 | One county , Kopparberg , has handed over most of its budget to family doctors and made them responsible for buying services from competing providers . |
| 20 | It has handed over sections of line , even complete routes like the Tyneside loop serving Whitley Bay . |
| 21 | He has handed over his responsibilities as the figurehead of Cobra ( Australia ) , a club manufacturing company , to his father , together with the Australian Junior Golf Foundation . |
| 22 | Lord King has handed over executive authority at British Airways to his deputy , Sir Colin Marshall . |
| 23 | On all three occasions , Stewart has handed over the gloves to Blakey — even though he is clearly a far superior keeper . |
| 24 | The son has since died and the daughter has handed over her interests in the case to lawyers . |
| 25 | In the latter case the offender does appropriate the property because , although the owner has handed over possession by consent ( which was obtained by deception ) , he has not transferred the property ( that is , the ownership ) and the offender , intending to deprive the owner permanently of his property , appropriates it , not by taking possession , but by the unilateral act , adverse to the owner , of treating as his own and taking to himself property of which he was merely given possession . |
| 26 | More news about Jack is the announcement that he has handed over the reins of the Midland Embalming School to John Davis who , apart from being a trade embalmer has a varied background in nursing , counselling , laboratory work and school teaching . |
| 27 | JACK Lee , whose name will always be associated with the Midland School of Embalming , which he founded just after the war and from which he has trained many hundreds of embalmers the world over , has decided to take more of a ‘ back seat ’ and has handed over the principal 's chair to John Davis , although he will still be ‘ in the wings ’ as an advisory tutor . |
| 28 | What do you say to the fathers , and I have had dozens from up and down the country contacting me , what do you say to the fathers like that chap over there in th in the front row , who has handed over sometimes tens of thousands of pounds , he 's done his bit , he 's had it rubber stamped by the court , he 's gone ahead in good faith and made his his his future , and then the Child Support Agency comes along and just without so much as a by your leave pulls the rug . |
| 29 | A Libyan official has handed over details to Britain of its links with the IRA . |
| 30 | ‘ We are glad the owner has handed over the pictures of his own free will rather than selling them on the Western art market . ’ |