Example sentences of "[verb] over [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They aimed to pass over to the other side of the stockade through the gap between one section and the other , where the bridge spanned the stream . |
| 2 | The canal 's over that-a-way , but if we head over towards the old brickworks- ’ She unlocked a huge padlock which fastened the gates . |
| 3 | The solid trapdoor lifted and crashed over onto the tiled floor , and his heart soared as the torch light revealed the wooden rungs of a ladder descending into the darkness below . |
| 4 | Given that the decision has now been taken by Parliament to extend the law to cover recordings , broadcasts and cable programmes , it may be wondered whether the exemption for these should have been automatically carried over into the new law . |
| 5 | Such attitudes were far removed from the world of the fictional Sir Joseph Bowlem in Dickens 's Chimes short story who boasted ‘ I allow nothing to be carried over into the New Year ; every description of account is settled in this house at the close of the old one ’ , and the real life employee of Manders the Wolverhampton paintmakers who scribbled on the flyleaf of a 1896 catalogue : |
| 6 | The principle of counting to ensure pastoral care and effective deployment of manpower is carried over into the New Testament . |
| 7 | This policy was to be carried over into the post-independence period . |
| 8 | The Government confirmed that the Bill would not proceed — it fell with the dissolution of Parliament on 16 March ( unfinished legislation can not be carried over to the new parliament ) . |
| 9 | Bell had done original design work on a defunct prop-powered XP–59 and that designation was carried over to the new effort in an attempt to mask the true nature of the project . |
| 10 | At the 40th session of the UNHCR Executive Committee in October 1989 the 43 member states adopted a general programme budget of $190,000,000 for the first six months of 1990 only ; after extensive debate at an extraordinary session in May 1990 and at the regular session in October , the Executive Committee finally adopted a general programme budget for 1990 amounting to $378,885,900 , including the $38,000,000 deficit carried over from the previous year . |
| 11 | They would have preferred process control and development staff to have established the new processes , and would have preferred to recruit ‘ green labour ’ to the new machines so that ‘ bad habits ’ would not have been carried over from the old production process . |
| 12 | Sorry , the ghost has n't come over from the other side of the door , it just keeps moving by itself . |
| 13 | Sometimes we went to the Cours Mirabeau and watched the debris from the daily market being picked over by the local dogs . |
| 14 | It is precisely among the eighteen to twenty-five years old electorate , which urgently needs to be won over to the Socialist cause before next year 's parliamentary elections , that Lang is the most popular Minister of the decade . |
| 15 | The judges said they were won over by the sheer fun of its output . |
| 16 | My daughter lives over on the main Oxford road . |
| 17 | He shrugged his shoulders , before walking over to the small refrigerator set in a corner of the living-room . |
| 18 | Athelstan stood for a moment in disbelief , then he moved over to the other bed post : there , in the centre , the artist had etched a life-like horse . |
| 19 | He moved over to the other side of the office and had begun searching through a well-stocked bookshelf when the phone on his desk rang close by Folly 's hand . |
| 20 | The play moved over to the other side of the field and they stopped their conversation for a moment to follow it . |
| 21 | An interesting natural experiment arose when the entire school moved over to the new pathway course in 1987 . |
| 22 | Miss Easterbrook moved over to the open notebook . |
| 23 | Man stands over against the awful otherness of God , by which his own existence is challenged , questioned and judged ; but in faith he finds the power nonetheless to live in that encounter with God by which each present moment becomes a meeting with eternity . |
| 24 | Some lesser American golfers , lured over by the open cheques that sponsors often have available , had in the past performed less than satisfactorily . |
| 25 | He wandered over to the far wall . |
| 26 | She wandered over to the chicken-wired window , and looked out . |
| 27 | Dougal wandered over to the uncurtained window . |
| 28 | On seeking to patent his process , Castner discovered that a similar patent had been lodged in Germany by Karl Kellner and made over to the powerful Solvay Company in Belgium . |
| 29 | Once or twice a week Howard climbs into the station wagon and drives over to the little market town fifteen miles away . |
| 30 | Racial tension boiled over in the inner city riots which spread across the nation in the " long hot summers " of 1965–7 . |