Example sentences of "and [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its function is basically to cover a woman 's hair and hide the shape of her breasts but it can be worn in a variety of ways , draped round the top half of her body and head , folded over her chest and hanging over her shoulders or loosely placed round her neck . |
| 2 | And hanging over both kitchen and dining room tables are colourful Tiffany-style lampshades . |
| 3 | And change over and off you go . |
| 4 | Based on an 8km circuit of the Can and Chelmer , teams could opt to race 40 or 80km and change over at the race centre as often as they liked . |
| 5 | Improv provides business an professional users with a unique set of capabilities for dynamic viewing and analysis , and , for building spreadsheets that can be easily reused , modified and shared over a long lifecycle . |
| 6 | For a whiff the strong white birds floated proudly there , diving , clearing the weed , and waddling over to the house when my father summoned them , for food and to be shut up for the night . |
| 7 | He was on the rocky slope he knew already from more than one climb , and somewhere here on these smoother protected faces of rock were the plans he had scratched and pondered over so many months ago . |
| 8 | Government ministries and departments and state-controlled companies were sometimes more engaged in ‘ turf wars ’ ( ‘ la guerre des administrations ’ ) than in overviewing and collaborating over long-term developments . |
| 9 | He paused again and gazed over my shoulder and I wondered what was coming next . |
| 10 | The Junior School which is an integral part of Heriot 's and constitutes over one third of the School 's roll , comprises the Nursery , the lower Primary and the Upper primary . |
| 11 | What is special here is the relaxed way they are grown , not just as climbers trained up fences and trellis , but also as scramblers , making their way enthusiastically over shrubs and tumbling over heathers to provide an added season of interest . |
| 12 | He gibbered and choked over an appeal for mercy . |
| 13 | I do n't remember him doing much digging in the garden but in my memory he is always mowing the lawn and fussing over a particular type of grass which evaded the blades and sprang back upright after the mower had passed over it . |
| 14 | The photographer and author , Daniel Farson , recollects Minton surrounded by sailors and fussing over his latest infatuation as if he were a chorus girl , whilst simultaneously complaining , ‘ I 'm only liked because I 'm rich . |
| 15 | Very kindly , Carole and Ben Meadows invited them to come and stay over the weekend . |
| 16 | Anger welled up in Juliet , and boiled over into words she never meant to say . |
| 17 | A mist is applied to a limited area and wiped over immediately with the cloth . |
| 18 | But you have to balance that with the way a major wo n't allow you the same freedom of artistic licence and influence over your promotion and development that an independent company can offer . |
| 19 | More important , it was subversive of the control and influence over events which Parliament sought to exercise that the monarch exercising a substantial ‘ pay-roll ’ influence over Parliament itself . |
| 20 | The risk addressed was that former employees might take advantage of contacts and influence over clients acquired during their employment , and divert business to themselves . |
| 21 | That is why we have invented the concept of trust status , which gives us the opportunity to entrust to local people — those who work in the hospitals — a greater discretion and influence over the way in which resources are used in their institution . |
| 22 | By sharing our sovereignty with our partners in the European Community , we can begin to achieve some realistic control and influence over events . |
| 23 | He was in a position in which he would have every opportunity of gaining knowledge of the customers ' business and influence over the customers ' . |
| 24 | It showed when he was upset when he was mocked by Peter Hain and attacked over Spitting Image at Questions earlier this week . |
| 25 | Place in a shallow dish and squeeze over lemon juice , then drizzle over oil . |
| 26 | One night , bumping into the doorway , and stepping over a colleague , I made my way out into the sleet , the toilets all being occupied , and as I crouched , steadying my cheek against the cold planks , I peered through the reeking shadows of Auschwitz and saw that the nearest ruins were fuming more than ever and had even begun to glow . |
| 27 | and you have to try and cover over , you ca n't say , god you 're vile are n't you ? , but erm , |
| 28 | Others who have not this privilege would be well advised to listen carefully to recordings with the score , and to go over many times passages which seem to them obscure or unfamiliar in sound at a first hearing . |
| 29 | We have been asked to give that up and to go over to the European Community system , with the European Court and majority voting — the shoe is pinching all the time . |
| 30 | When talks broke down at a Leeds hotel last week , Wilkinson told both players to go home and think over his offer , but Andersson 's later outburst left the Leeds manager fuming . |