Example sentences of "over to [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 After meeting the surgeons , he said they had agreed they could cope if medical emergencies did not spill over to their beds .
2 The guerrillas are well disciplined , and intent on winning villagers over to their cause .
3 It is too complicated to send large numbers of bills over to their accountant every day .
4 Now , as from the times of childhood , she rode Fenna , seated in the deep hollow of the meeting place of scaled neck , veined wing and rising battlement of spine ; a throne protected from the great gale of his flight , as safe as the rocky cradle secures the foetal child , leaning back towards the bumpy spine as she had leant before , she gave herself over to their journey .
5 Then Gina came over to their table .
6 But his handling of the industry portfolio incurred the wrath of industry leaders who appear to have won the president over to their side ( New Scientist 10 March , p 646 ) .
7 But does their agreement about guitars carry over to their individual sounds ?
8 However , in order to sway you over to their way of thinking , Peterson might paraphrase the old adage and say , ‘ Look after the cents and the dollars will take care of themselves … ’
9 And they 've carried their tradition of illustrious contributors over to their third and latest release , ‘ Rites Of Passage ’ …
10 Prime was born in the early 1970s , structured around the PrimOS operating system , which was developed on Honeywell Inc minicomputer hardware under a government contract , which meant that when people on the development team wanted to take it into the commercial world , they were able to buy the operating system for a nominal sum , and developed a new processor optimised to run it to create the 50 Series , the customer base for which will now be subject to a flock of companies wanting to win users over to their open systems .
11 As in Wales , the crowds complained when Prince Charles went over to their side of the street during a walkabout .
12 Whatever the tactics used , it soon appeared that the men were having some success in winning women over to their side in other firms as well .
13 Greenshanks were flying over to their night-time roost in the park .
14 The Soviets , with control of the eastern zone , could pose as the champions of German reunification and try to win West Germans over to their side .
15 NOVELISTS WHO HIDE themselves away for months or years usually emerge from their seclusion nervously clutching a manuscript , hand it over to their publishers , and wait by the phone for some kind of reaction .
16 These women gave all their money they ha , they made , till the day they were married , they handed it over to their mothers .
17 In the break , a large sandy-haired young man in a black leather jacket came over to their table .
18 She got up , went over to their table with the half-smoked stub , and said in her best BBC voice : " Excuse me , but I wonder whether you could possibly let me have a light ?
19 Now that the women were by themselves , the man whom Penelope had noticed staring at Ianthe seemed to pluck up courage to come over to their table .
20 Too many families fail to get this over to their children and teachers are often left with too little energy for teaching after gaining class control .
21 This shrub bed was a full sixty yards from where they now stood , but just over half that distance from the treeline away over to their left .
22 The case became a public examination of one of the most controversial episodes at the end of the Second World War when under the Yalta agreement the British were obliged to hand over to their authorities all East European prisoners .
23 He also insinuated that pro-independence republics were implicated , commenting that Soviet monetary collapse would make it easier for " ultra-radicals in a number of republics to solve the problem of changing over to their own currencies " .
24 They were just finishing their lunch and Barton chose this moment to walk over to their table .
25 Teeth flashing very white in his mahogany , sweat-beaded face , he ran lightly over to talk to the band and Tara came barefoot over to their table .
26 And then Pepe himself came over to their table .
27 As for castrating the piglets , it 's done in a second and they 're passed over to their mother without a clue that their whole lifestyle has been changed . ’
28 That spilled over to their behaviour towards the match officials .
29 Darlington people will be able to hand their goods over to their milkman on collection days until March 6 .
30 So whoever got the bike now still have n't changed the log book over to their name .
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