Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] over [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My enthusiasm for my cooking spills over into the restaurant , ’ he said . |
| 2 | So my father went over on the Monday evening and after such a a young man paid such interest in the garden and paying so much compliments , Well you ca n't go home without coming in for a cup of tea . |
| 3 | My daughter lives over on the main Oxford road . |
| 4 | The main opposition party , the right-wing Community party ( Atassut ) , lost three seats , leaving it with eight , as some of its support went over to the Centre Party , which entered the legislature for the first time with two seats . |
| 5 | ‘ How do I look — ’ She stopped dead , her heart flipping over under the sweater as Penry Vaughan leapt to his feet at the sight of her , the height and breadth of him overpowering the entire room . |
| 6 | But , all the same , as she remembered those brief moments in the water , she felt her heart turn over with a flip-flop of pleasure . |
| 7 | Lissa drew her robe around herself in a protective gesture , her mind frozen over like a bleak winter landscape . |
| 8 | Her glance moved over to the phone — should she ring Ven about her car ? |
| 9 | A WOMAN died when her car crossed over onto the wrong side of the road , hit a Transit van and overturned yesterday . |
| 10 | She was sitting down by the gate , one hand on her neck , her head canted over at a fierce angle . |
| 11 | Her evident pleasure and pride in her achievement spilled over into the group , motivating others to follow suit and try out situations they had been avoiding . |
| 12 | Perhaps only a minority would like to see their island taken over by the Miami exiles . |
| 13 | Her glass went over with a crystal Ting ! |
| 14 | KGB activities were suspended and its property handed over to the republican governments . |
| 15 | She and her detective rushed over to the photographer and she pleaded with him to hand over his film , and tell nothing of what he had seen . |
| 16 | An increasingly important aspect of some genre authors and titles is their ability to cross over into a mainstream readership . |
| 17 | She nearly dropped the mug but her brain took over at the last instant . |
| 18 | The staff , all from the Burscough-based Westbrook Packaging firm , had seen their company taken over by the French-owned Seyfert Packaging Group and decided it was time to learn the language . |
| 19 | No , she remembered her bag tipping over in the cloakroom at Mattli — it must have fallen out then . |
| 20 | In 1950 the company was wound up and its copyright taken over by the Britons Society , in a merger of racial nationalist and Die-hard conservative traditions — an ideological alliance of two of the major strands of political thought which later heavily influenced the ideas of the National Front . |
| 21 | If the stress is high enough and he is basically insecure — his adult has not turned off his child 's ‘ all my fault ’ — his child takes over with a ‘ nothing to do with you ’ response . |
| 22 | Then , with a shrug , he let his gaze slide over to the coffee-pot . |
| 23 | The receiver will be obliged at the end of his receivership to hand over to the company any documents belonging to the company but not those brought into existence for the discharge of his own professional duties or his duties to the chargee . |
| 24 | His wife went over to a casket and took out a small roll of parchment . |
| 25 | Andy takes the man 's calves under his armpits and lifts ; I get underneath and force the man 's shoulders up ; his head goes over onto the stone rim of the vent , beneath the grating . |
| 26 | His assistant took over behind the counter and proceeded to inflict the continuing stories of her friends and enemies in the buildings on the dockers and carmen . |
| 27 | And if he decides to be a member of the Government he resigns his parliamentary seat and his replacement takes over without the need for a by-election . |
| 28 | At home on stage live , his enjoyment comes over on the album which has no extra studio gloss to them . |
| 29 | As he looked at her , his face closed over with a faintly embarrassed incredulity . |
| 30 | Can we , in the West , begin to imagine how it must be to have your farm taken over by the state . |