Example sentences of "over [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And is is not a fact that in fact the Killinghall bypass and the Ripon bypass , in fact does nothing to in fact i er alleviate those particular problems over about a seven mile stretch . |
| 2 | And Dicky can take over as a footman — he may need a few lines changed here and there . ’ |
| 3 | What falls less easily into place is the judgment about relative importance , urgency , contemporary relevance , nearness to reality ; because Raskolnikov comes over as a very grand and accessible conception , a nineteenth-century bohemian Hamlet was one way of putting it , whereas Verkhovensky is just a wrecker . |
| 4 | From late 1922 , however , extreme anti-Marxism — now often without the express linkage to the Jews — began to take over as a dominant theme of his speeches . |
| 5 | ‘ I used to play quite a lot of football , ’ he explains , ‘ but all I was really good at was knocking the opposition over as a last-ditch defence . ’ |
| 6 | Spitalfields , once a wholesale fruit and vegetable market , has been taken over as a leisure venture with around 200 stalls selling crafts and bric-a-brac plus sporting attractions in a covered area larger than Covent Garden . |
| 7 | The original church here was taken over as a convent church when San Carlo Borromeo set up the convent for girls who had been orphaned by the plague . |
| 8 | The present Clanna Weir House was formerly the main card mill and one of the other mill buildings was later taken over as a saw mill , power coming from a water turbine powered by waters channelled from the ponds above the site . |
| 9 | The game was all over as a spectacle until the last two minutes when United 's corpse rose from the dead to give Horsham an awful fright . |
| 10 | We could hear the V2s thudding down onto London in the far distance , but the sound came over as a far-off double bang , which puzzled us for a long time until someone told us what it was . |
| 11 | Mrs Robins comes over as a cold , strict woman who was for ever giving orders . |
| 12 | A half sheet of hard-board from your DIY store can be used over and over as a base , but it does blunt the blade . |
| 13 | When Mr Major waxes philosophical , he comes over as a strange mix of nostalgia and modernism . |
| 14 | Financially , the slave traders had rather more reason to take care of the people they were carrying than the transporters of convicts or of indentured labourers did ; all of these groups were being taken over as a speculative venture on which the shipper got no return unless he delivered live bodies , but the slave traders had already paid out cash to purchase their slaves . |
| 15 | The wily Queen , knowing that her position was totally dependent on Rome , handed him over as a prisoner , giving her ally more cause for gratitude and reward . |
| 16 | I have for a long time had on file one respected artist 's offer to arrange an exhibition of a hundred of his works , and then to hand them straight over as a gift to the Russian Cultural Foundation . |
| 17 | A keyboard adds depth to the slower , moodier numbers ( ‘ Better Life ’ , ‘ Leave Tonight ’ ) and the band come over as a pretty tight and professional unit . |
| 18 | The place has all the appropriate externals , chimneys choked with ivy , windows with jasmine , worm-eaten shutters , mossy thatch , all of which ‘ under the quiet light of a sky marbled with high clouds would have made a sort of picture which we have all passed over as a ‘ charming bit ’ , touching other sensibilities than those which are stirred by the depression of the agricultural interest , with the sad lack of farming capital , as seen constantly in the newspapers of that time ’ . |
| 19 | Their park was given over as a whole for building development , and laid out on the gridiron pattern in the middle decades of the eighteenth century . |
| 20 | It was excruciatingly embarrassing to read the quotes and find myself coming over as a lonely , crusading ‘ woman who waits ’ . |
| 21 | It was odd coming over as a tragic heroine . |
| 22 | That does n't seem to be so at some stages it is a little difficult getting it over as a as a a retired person talking to someone who is facing redundancy about retirement . |
| 23 | ‘ The strong prejudice against only children comes over as a clear reason for having at least two , ’ she says . |
| 24 | ( This plan was abandoned when rumours began to circulate that the castle was about to be taken over as a headquarters for Field Marshal Kesselring ; rumours which subsequently proved to have no basis in fact . ) |
| 25 | This unsensitivity aside , though , George comes over as a pretty decent bloke who simply got fed up with his celebrity status . |
| 26 | I mean you still write one over resistance but do n't think of the resistance part of it , think of the new one over as a separate entity . |
| 27 | People surged forward , nearly knocking them over as a train came in . |
| 28 | He is worshipped the world over as a male fan-tasy figure in classic movies like The Good The Bad And The Ugly , A Fistful Of Dollars and The Man With |
| 29 | It 's primarily put over as a kind of erm , power line to the future . |
| 30 | The spontaneous self-confidence of her writing voice , when you first discover it , comes over as a triumph of the human spirit — but also as a terrible indictment of the society that makes such a voice so rare , so virtually impossible . |