Example sentences of "[verb] over [prep] [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Nevertheless I arranged to drive over to Strondonald the following Saturday afternoon and join him for tea . |
2 | Polybius again went a step further by passing over in silence the Roman Bacchanalia which chronologically and typologically can hardly be separated from the new popularity of Dionysus in Egypt about 210 B.C. He was also silent about the religious crisis in Rome during the second Punic War : we do not hear from him about the human sacrifices of that time . |
3 | Piet Marais , Minister of Administration , Education , Culture and Manpower ( i.e. with responsibility for white education ) , took over in addition the overall Ministry of National Education , previously held by Pienaar . |
4 | Parliament never voted enough money for a naval war with the Netherlands to be decisively successful , so the most substantial result of the anti-Dutch policy was that in 1664 the English seized New Amsterdam , and kept it in the 1668 peace negotiations by handing over in exchange the English colony of Surinam in Guiana . |
5 | Yes it 's it 's it was one of the er advertisements or programmes that went out on radio er again this is why I 've been trying to get over to people the sad things that have to happen to animals . |