Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] over [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That evening is I crouched at the back of the slit trench , swatting the mauses and listening to the sound of shells passing over and the rain dripping steadily in through the entrance to the trench , I stared at the pool of water getting larger and hoped that the rain would soon stop , if it does n't I 'm in for an uncomfortable night . |
| 2 | Er or aircraft went over when the siren was going , and the people could n't hear it . |
| 3 | Here the guard changed over and the train headed back eastwards to the coast . |
| 4 | The disagreement arises over whether the mind is the product of molecules and electricity or whether it is altogether of a more subtle nature . |
| 5 | It is not an immediately obvious choice for a dirty weekend , but the only other guests are those taking advantage of ‘ celebrate romance ’ special deals to keep the place ticking over while the weekday corporate businessmen are away . |
| 6 | Instead of musical mats , children can ‘ walk the plank ’ and should not have a foot on it or be the last person to pass over when the music stops . |
| 7 | Peter Bowles played the lad 's boss , Mr Shadrack , in the Manchester production , but Christopher Hancock took over when the show moved to London . |
| 8 | Oliver took over and the room sprang into focus . |
| 9 | Collimore good tackle by Hill a really effective challenge and Collimore and Hill having a real scrap as the ball comes over and the referee steps in and stern action might be required here by referee Kirby . |
| 10 | It is an additional requirement of the religion , that it shall be in some logical form which can be accepted by all kinds of people , from the academically minded who need to be satisfied with its innate sound reasoning , to those who are prepared to let faith take over where the tedium of logical study is not wanted or not within their individual capacities to undertake . |
| 11 | It is occasionally possible , just for brief moments , to find the words that will unlock the doors of all those many mansions inside the head and express something — perhaps not much , just something — of the crush of the information that presses in on us from the way a crow flies over and the way a man walks and the look of a street and from what we did one day a dozen years ago . |
| 12 | He was a mere dot on the horizon when the sky clouded over and the storm broke . |
| 13 | The possibility of Japanese defence forces taking over after the peace treaty was opposed by MacArthur : it would be a violation of existing commitments , would be contrary to SCAP policies hitherto and in any event could not transform Japan into a significant military power . |
| 14 | The British emphasis , as we have seen , is on liberty as the residue , the bit left over after the law has had its say . |
| 15 | Some controversy arose over whether the adjective " voluntary " in the Spanish text of the agreement ( desmovilización y repatriación voluntaria ) applied to the contras ' demobilization or to their repatriation . |
| 16 | It begins gently at first , a pipe bridge , a lattice canal footbridge and an arched cable bridge , and then develops in earnest as sliproads flail through the air , the M6 crosses , the Birmingham to Lichfield railway passes through and ever more sliproads arc over until the canal passes into a large box tunnel with two towpaths below the A38M Aston Expressway before emerging into the relative simplicity of Salford Junction below the M6 . |
| 17 | This was the question of what would happen to the material left over when the uranium rods had finished producing their electricity , when the exciting part of the process was over . |