Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Concentrated Reinforcement Programme was discontinued since it was considered that the very marginal improvement that it had over the Standard programme was not worth the relatively more substantial increase in running costs . |
| 2 | Incidentally , the working pattern of these bodyguards , so it transpired over the following days , entailed one or the other of them going up to sleep at unusual hours so as to ensure at least one was on duty throughout the night . |
| 3 | That was , that , but it got over the main point of the story . |
| 4 | While it passed over the flat surface four hard pointed styli engraved the foil , sometimes in a continuous line and sometimes with a series of indentations , several times a second , each stylus responding to the quantity of the parameter concerned . |
| 5 | It was an Arctic blast screaming from the east , picking up extra degrees of cold as it drove over the frozen white surface . |
| 6 | As it banked over the Cambrian Mountains , the reservoir which featured in the first party political broadcast sparkled far below . |
| 7 | It was a perfect summer dawn and the red flames matched the red disc of the sun as it rose over the misty hedges . |
| 8 | Behind his head the lights of the lorry were flashing as it bumped over the hard ridges of ice . |
| 9 | This morning the water was clear and silvery , chuckling a little as it lapped over the smooth , oval , brown stones . |