Example sentences of "[verb] over [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His shot hit the upright but Swindon , encouraged , at last began to make an impression and Bolton survived a narrow squeak as Simpson 's powerful effort was tipped over by a leaping Felgate . |
| 2 | Poured on to the plane , alone , Burton was humped for thirteen hours across the Atlantic , assuaged by alcohol ; stopped over for a few drinks in New York and then taken on an eleven-hour trip to Los Angeles which was made tolerable by more alcohol . |
| 3 | But video installation calls the viewer into spatial relationship with the object , a relationship carried over into a sculptural understanding of even single monitor works . |
| 4 | Sixty miles they used to come over for a good evening at those and maybe two principles |
| 5 | It was his pick-up and feed from a scrum which sent David Wright in for the first of his tries and then the No. 8 charged over from a similar situation to grab the lead on the stroke of half-time . |
| 6 | His marriage seemed like the Atlantic Ocean to her , something vast and unknowable which she could not attempt to bridge but only fly over at a terrible speed . |
| 7 | However , if we do not like being judged by an external tribunal , if we do not like our citizens being interrogated by foreign judges about acts committed in the United Kingdom , if we do not like our Acts of Parliament and our internal administration being scrupulously picked over by a European Commission , if we do not like the relations between the Crown and its possessions being altered over our heads , the remedy is in our own hands . |
| 8 | Isay staggered over with a crimson slash across his temple and gore clinging to his staff . |
| 9 | Lissa drew her robe around herself in a protective gesture , her mind frozen over like a bleak winter landscape . |
| 10 | The result was that when impatience to reach out to the peasantry boiled over into a significant movement in the early 1870s there was minimal planning and organization . |
| 11 | But Solomona caused more havoc with another explosive burst and the ball was fanned right for full-back Sean Tyrer to stroll over for a sixth Oldham try . |
| 12 | Moreover , many of the issues have spilled over in a marked renewal of interest in the state in the last twenty years . |
| 13 | Or should development be given over to a broad church of interest groups and realised by a catholic mix of architects working in a number of complementary styles ? |
| 14 | Every Thursday is given over to a drop-in day , which is open to the previous year 's group to come back or to any girl on home-teaching , and sometimes girls from three or four years back may also drop in for a chat or advice . |
| 15 | Mark Cameron ( 1987 ) came to believe , after studying these frescoes intensively , that the West Wing of the Knossos Labyrinth in particular was given over to a whole programme of initiation rites and ordeals . |
| 16 | For the rest of the week it is given over to a different selection : good second-hand clothes , useful but redundant household articles , outgrown children 's toys plus almost anything that someone no longer needs and someone else might use . |
| 17 | But the walls themselves were constructed with an infill of mud bricks , set in mud mortar , and smoothed over with a beautiful mud plaster . |
| 18 | They had their own windows with dark blue oil-cloth roller-blinds through which Dot could see into the compartment of the train alongside just like looking over at a next-door house . |
| 19 | The above example also shows how reported speech may carry over into a second sentence without any reinforcing signal . |
| 20 | With this ghastly thought in mind , he gently suggested to Sheila that they walk over to a nice patch of grass at the base of the earth bank . |
| 21 | We walk over to a dusty square where over a hundred women , migrants from the countryside and recently closed state mines , are digging and paving with picks and shovels . |
| 22 | Treating his pupils to the compliment of rational disagreement sometimes spilled over into a verbal contest so fierce that the young person concerned was abashed or even frightened . |
| 23 | But these objects , ritualistically sprinkled and gestured over by a Catholic priest or Aymara sage , take on a new significance as promises of future prosperity . |
| 24 | Gilly 's heart gave a little spurt and flopped over like a dud rocket . |
| 25 | But referee Ed Morrison 's leniency led to bad blood spilling over in a six-man brawl as Richards looked for revenge . |
| 26 | ‘ One man 's trash is another man 's treasure , ’ Totter said in a maddeningly calm voice , wandering over to a lower shelf as she did so . |
| 27 | Our son Greg came over for a few days to do some business in England and to see his father . |
| 28 | I came over for a short visit when my parents first moved here … ’ |
| 29 | It nearly always came over in a bad light , as a bunch of cocooned scientists trying to hoodwink the common sense of ordinary folk . |
| 30 | I was asked to clean down with blanket wash and then run over with a clean polishing rag . |