Example sentences of "over from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moore 's sitting room has been reconstructed on the ground floor complete with his favourite armchair , bookcase , work table and all the works of art it used to contain , shipped over from storage in Britain plus a colour photograph reproducing the view he enjoyed out of his window . |
| 2 | One of the things that 's left over from school is an absolute terror of hearing my name pronounced in public . |
| 3 | I had few friends , just one or two left over from school , but on the infrequent occasions when we met I could see from their faces that they pitied me , finding me foolish and Syl a bore . |
| 4 | ‘ I want you to take over from Nurse Calvert when they 've finished in Room G with Mrs Cole . ’ |
| 5 | In modern life astrology seems in any case to have taken over from dream interpretation as the soothsayer 's preferred technique . |
| 6 | One narrator who temporarily takes over from Stencil is Fausto Maijstral , a Maltese poet who has kept a record of the German siege of the island during the last world war . |
| 7 | In an attempt to win the people over from Bogomilism , the Hungarians introduced the Franciscans into Bosnia , and their influence continued into the twentieth century . |
| 8 | The Bar Services Committee commenced the New Year under the Chairmanship of , who took over from QC . |
| 9 | He raised an eyebrow and looked her over from head to toe . |
| 10 | Covered all over from head to toe , |
| 11 | As we emptied our dustbins out we noticed another bin full of cold ravioli and bread left over from lunch ; the bread was mixed in with the garbage and was soggy from being in a dustbin of cold ravioli for two hours . |
| 12 | Then , finally , came supper , which was really what was left over from lunch : cold meat , salad and cheese , and more wine . |
| 13 | She herself had never aspired to a career , finding complete satisfaction in acting as her husband 's typist and research assistant in the time she had left over from gardening and housekeeping . |
| 14 | ‘ I remember the winter of 1962–3 when Feethams was frozen over from Boxing Day until March and the pile up of fixtures was horrendous . |
| 15 | Bainbridge has a lovely village green which was the setting for nothing more remarkable than the fact that I arrived there one day to walk over from Bainbridge to Cam Houses with Tony and Eddie , the landlord from my local pub , only to discover that I 'd left my walking boots back at home in Dentdale and had to do the entire walk in a pair of fur-lined cowboy boots , which earned me the nickname of Roy Rogers for the rest of the week . |
| 16 | By then , the fashion world had grown much bigger and name- designer ready-to-wear had taken over from couture as the focus of interest . |
| 17 | And of course the , or driving part of the mill I would n't say they completely took over from steam . |
| 18 | Electricity has taken over from steam and gas , and the present output fluctuates between 3 and 5 million gallons per week . |
| 19 | Since then home viewing has largely taken over from cinema going but there does not seem to have been much criticism of the format as such but perhaps more so the screen size . |
| 20 | ‘ There was a party came over from Prince 's , trollies and all , but as they paid we could hardly object . ’ |
| 21 | Anger took over from shock . |
| 22 | Wigan had already scaled great heights when he took over from Kiwi Graham Lowe in September 1989 but , under the Australian master , they have climbed new peaks . |
| 23 | But it would also take 700 000 travellers out of their cars and over a million passengers would switch over from air travel . |
| 24 | For Chicago 's Exhibitors Film Exchange ‘ the Meaning of the Movies ’ was that the benefits and aspiration that had previously been offered by ‘ a dozen agencies ’ were now combined in one form for the motion picture was taking over from painting , sculpture , travel , history and so on . |
| 25 | This movement will be accelerated once Oracle users have made the shift over from Oracle 6 to Oracle7 , from where they can extend further towards the Oracle Parallel Server . |
| 26 | ( b ) Could this idea be carried over from boiler inspections to drug inspections ? |
| 27 | Whenever oligarchy took over from democracy , pay for office was one of the first things to be abolished . |
| 28 | If recovery is taken for granted , even after many years or even decades , the process switches over from recovery to relapse . |
| 29 | We brought them over from County Antrim in Northern Ireland for an expenses-paid trip to London and an image transformation by haircare experts from Wella . |
| 30 | So far the autumn had brought gales soft bright days left over from summer misty still days , windy showery ones and now a fine drizzle . |