Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These new plants could regenerate quickly , so they took over the ecosystem . |
| 2 | Many older women probably avoid relationships for similar reasons but , once they get over the inhibitions , it can be very reassuring to know that you are accepted , varicose veins , belly and all . |
| 3 | Until 1948 the British ruled Palestine , but on 15th May that year the British mandate came to an end , and they handed over the country to the Jews . |
| 4 | If you open you 've got gangs of young lads patrolling the town , even with whips and if they get over the door you 've had it . |
| 5 | If you open you 've got gangs of young lads patrolling the town , even with whips and if they get over the door you 've had it . |
| 6 | Which may not rank the outsiders in the eyes of the Ladbrokes odds-maker , but if they look over the fence they will certainly be able to see the outsiders from where they have been placed . |
| 7 | But they gloss over the ambiguities in the concept of the subject which underlie these difficulties . |
| 8 | But when they took over the firm they were always called " Mister " to distinguish them from the other captains , perhaps . |
| 9 | The first is that the land around the Arnish site was owned by the Stornoway Trust , an elected body who received an undertaking from the subsidiary of Olsen Shipping when they took over the site , that only essential maintenance would be carried out on Sundays . |
| 10 | Why then do their minds go blank as soon as they turn over the question paper ? |
| 11 | The sudden roar as they sweep over the horizon is part of life in this otherwise quiet stretch of countryside-often alarming enough to send children into bursts of frightened tears . |
| 12 | The exterior surface of most ammonoids is covered with ribbing — dense on some species , sparse on others — the ribs often split into two or more smaller ribs as they pass over the back of the whorls . |
| 13 | This pattern is made not only by the dancers ' feet as they move over the surface but also by the dancers ' bodies as they move through space . |
| 14 | These worms have large buccal capsules and feed by ingestion of plugs of mucosa as they move over the surface of the intestine . |
| 15 | Not so long as they handed over the pound notes — though smiling Clyde took most of those , the greedy sod . |