Example sentences of "[verb] itself over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With all the rain emptying itself over the Feyenoord Stadium it was hard to put last night 's match in the context of a World Cup which is more likely to present problems of heat than waterproofing . |
| 2 | The first argument to scotch is that Britain has committed itself over the years to accepting the single currency and the central bank . |
| 3 | ‘ Their precious Republic has ruined itself over the Naples war . |
| 4 | He still went on to do an enormous lob over Coton 's head , and what seemed like half an hour later the ball sneaked itself over the line . |
| 5 | She 'd loved the stones it smoothed , and its wildness when it flung itself over the promenade wall , scattering gravel and driftwood . |
| 6 | That matter is high on their agenda , and the hon. Gentleman may recall that the Labour party has distinguished itself over the past 40 years by being wrong about practically every foreign policy and defence issue that has come before it . |
| 7 | The extent to which the company has transformed itself over the past dozen years should not be underestimated . |
| 8 | A remarkably similar dilemma was now presenting itself over the hand-overs of the Yugoslavs . |
| 9 | Heads of department from the Soviet trade union centre , the AUCCTU , are expected to visit Congress House in the New Year on a fact-finding mission , and there have been requests for training links to be built between the TUC and the Hungarian trade union body , SZOT , which has been attempting to restructure itself over the last two years . |
| 10 | He welcomed a recent Government announcement that an extra £25 million would be made available to help his organisation to restructure itself over the next three years . |
| 11 | The sea answered her voice , and she saw a great heave of water rise and fling itself over the dunes . |
| 12 | If only the population could just manage , by random drift , to get itself over the knife-edge , it could coast down the slope to the Tit for Tat side , and everyone would do much better at the banker 's ( or ‘ nature 's ’ ) expense . |
| 13 | On a crowded traffic way he 'd have been dead in under a minute but the barren landscape of this world offered little in the way of obstacles and the vehicle seemed able to right itself over the irregular peaks that occasionally reared unexpectedly out of the mists . |
| 14 | Tammuz leaned over Zambia and removed a T-shirt which had hooked itself over the wall-clock in the frenzy of its removal the previous night . |
| 15 | Thunder flashes , Roman candles and other pyrotechnics would enliven its passage until , a spinning hoop of flame , it launched itself over the cliff , described a brief trajectory and plunged into the sea , never to be seen again . |
| 16 | If , however , they were unlucky enough to meet wet weather and the harvest extended itself over the stated month , then they might well find themselves working in the fifth week without drawing any extra money . |
| 17 | The back to nursing movement has established itself over the past five years , partly in response to a national shortage of qualified staff , and partly as a result of the UKCC 's stated commitment to introduce mandatory updating programmes for nurses and health visitors returning to practice after a specified minimum break in service . |