Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] over the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she could still be asked to leave with just one month 's notice if someone takes over the 20-year lease . |
| 2 | But I plan over the next year to completely renew my rig ; there are just too many hip new things . |
| 3 | To hire a car would be a mistake if you want to enjoy the White Mountains , which extend over the western end of the island , from immediately behind Chania and the north coast road to the edge of the south coast . |
| 4 | China , which takes over the British colony in 1997 , refuses to bless the undertaking — and thus open the way for private financing of part of it — until it has wrung several concessions from the British . |
| 5 | China , which takes over the British colony in 1997 , has flatly rejected two plans . |
| 6 | A suitable satellite image is classified using image-processing techniques to identify the various types of land cover which exist over the entire study area at very fine spatial resolution . |
| 7 | She handed over the small package , and then ran her gaze once more over the chaos in the office . |
| 8 | But rumour has it that a sevens tournament is going to be organised in Moscow in September to decide who takes over the Soviet place : Russia , Ukraine , Georgia , Latvia or Kazakhstan . |
| 9 | In the urban fringe it has already been shown in Chapter 3 that recreation can have an adverse impact on farming , but other work has shown that the 500 or so informal recreation sites which cover 5.7 per cent of London 's Green Belt ( Ferguson and Munton , 1979 ) are not heavily used by either car-owing suburban dwellers ( who leapfrog over the green belt into so-called proper countryside since they perceive the sites as being too near to be worthy of a special car trip ) or by carless inner city residents ( who spurn the use of public transport ) ( Harrison , 1983 ) . |
| 10 | Also to be released is Wilton Mkwayi , who took over the overall command of the ANC 's military wing , Umkhonto we Sizwe , after the others were jailed but was himself arrested and jailed for life in 1965 . |
| 11 | Lizaveta once mended his clothes : when we puzzle over the chance-induced actuality of her murder being so largely left to speak for itself we are creating a false problem by the inertness of our own metaphor . |
| 12 | Denise and Ralph Bulger talk frankly about the joy they feel over the new baby in a magazine article published tomorrow . |
| 13 | Still more to the point , were they welcomed by the Melians when they took over the existing settlement at Phylakopi ? |
| 14 | Arsenal 's slump since they took over the Premier League leadership on November 7 has been startling , but Graham admitted : ‘ I do n't even think about winning the title . |
| 15 | Although the older sister lived away , she travelled to stay with her sister occasionally and during one visit , after she made her allegations in a family meeting which she had joined , the counsellor asked her to take over the caring role for the final week of her stay so that her sister could actually see how it should be done . |
| 16 | Black silhouettes move out of the darkness and change into blunt torpedoes , dark and slow-moving as they glide over the sandy bottom . |
| 17 | In 1684 he turned over the retail side of his business to Francis Saunders and his partner Joseph Knight . |
| 18 | The Department owes a great deal to Noel Thomas and it is a measure of his success as Chairman that when at the end of the 1989 academic year he handed over the hot seat to Angus Easson , the latter 's first task was one of consolidation . |
| 19 | Rossini set the words of his theatre librettists happily and so , give or take a few personal quiddities , did the Italian stories , outline and the dictate the treatment , but he handed over the actual versification to Piave , Ghislanzoni , Boito and the rest . |
| 20 | He handed over the oozing affair , wiping his fingers on his sweatshirt with ‘ Happiness is a warm pussy ’ printed across it , before holding out his palm and facing away , bored . |
| 21 | Although he handed over the active management of his business some time ago to his son , Bill , his keen interest in the affairs of Cessford and in the welfare of his family never flagged . |
| 22 | And indeed , it did hold its stout pectoral fins away from the sides of its body , and it was not hard to imagine that had it been vigorous , it could have used them to help it move over the rocky sea floor of its true environment . |
| 23 | Smith dismissed speculation he would recruit former Middlesbrough coach David Nish as his right hand man if he took over the hot seat . |
| 24 | When " Reggie " Hughes left , he took over the full teaching of art ii , the school . |
| 25 | He took over the White Horse Hotel in Thirsk until it closed in 1961 . |
| 26 | The men claim they were not offered new sales posts with Swithland Motors , of Mountsorrel , Leics , after it took over the Birmingham-based Colmore Group in March last year . |
| 27 | Well I mean that when we start organization and I am on , I 'm on Cortille and on the committee and they wanted me to take over the Vice Chairman and I said no way . |