Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] over [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It wove its way through the commercial dockside industry of the town which gave place , in time , to acres given over to the cultivation of the motor car in all its stages , new , second-hand and crushed to scrap . |
| 2 | Sometimes the pastor found himself speaking to an empty church ; sometimes to a church filled with schoolchildren ; sometimes to a congregation supplemented by the relatives of islanders brought over from the mainland , and other tourists . |
| 3 | It is therefore particularly fitting that it is a charity associated with the teaching profession hat takes some of the books left over at the end of the sale to ‘ sent to countries in dire need ’ , as Lewis Romanis , former Headmaster of Boroughmuir School , put it in his gracious thank-you letter . |
| 4 | The paths would be made from bricks left over from the building of the house ; the little hedges , not more than twelve inches in height , would be box , and spaces large enough to accommodate blooms would be devoted to arum lilies ; the others to gravel . |
| 5 | There were about fifteen cattle , around a dozen sheep and a few lambs left over from the spring lambing . |
| 6 | There is also a collection of Wycliff 's writings brought over at the time of England 's Queen Anne . |
| 7 | According to the report Kuomintang troops brought over from the mainland massacred between 18,000 and 28,000 people following what was deemed to be a Communist-inspired rebellion which began on Feb. 28 , 1947 . |
| 8 | And then , terribly pleased with that demonstration , the anthropologist goes on to try to fit in everything : and a good anthropologist is one who completes the picture and appears to have no pieces left over at the end . |
| 9 | This is because it carries out a unique function within the nuclear industry : it tries to deal with the problems left over at the end . |
| 10 | The charges were made by Derek Johnson of Southern Counties , a silver medal winner at the Olympic Games in 1956 , who told the board 's annual meeting that he wanted to correct the record on how the board came to be wound up in 1987 and its financial affairs taken over by the AAA . |
| 11 | Although Microsoft Corp is currently gorging itself on Intel Corp iAPX-86 platforms with its Windows desktop environment — and Windows NT will follow — there are still expected to be some rich pickings left over for the gaggle of hopefuls which are working on desktop Unix implementations for the architecture , which will soon include the new P5 80586 iteration when it arrives . |
| 12 | By the end of April 1921 , the work was finished and they began to furnish the upstairs flat , mainly with items brought over from the house at Poplar , and to stock the shop with cameras , films and processing equipment . |
| 13 | They were the original fittings left over from the beginning of the century which the Diocesan Parsonage Committee had yet to get around to modernising . |
| 14 | All the ladies had put on their best floral evening frocks , the flags left over from the Coronation came into their own again , the fairy lights were lit on the verandah , and the gramophone churned out all the favourites : " Jealous Heart " , " Pawnshop on the Corner " , " Tennessee Waltz " , and lots of Glenn Miller . |
| 15 | In reality , the squabble is more over slogans and symbols left over from the Reagan years than anything substantial . |
| 16 | They are sometimes acidic to neutralise any alkaline residues carried over from the washing process and sometimes include disinfectants . |
| 17 | Sets left over from the space ship in ‘ The Sensorites ’ were re-used for the interiors of crashed British Rocket Ship 201 , while Tristram Cary 's musique concrète from ‘ The Daleks ’ got its second airing as well . |
| 18 | Yeah I mean if you get erm , I 'll tell you what actually , because it 's a two hour slot I can in one slot get them to y'know and th we 're not in a great hurry cos there 's usually a few spaces left over at the end of the term . |
| 19 | There are also signs that FTC could soon sign a deal with the rump of the Football League , those clubs left over after the formation of the new Premier League . |
| 20 | Yeah we 've got loads left over from the funeral . |
| 21 | After a meagre supper of beans left over from the orderlies ' meal , Pétain slept , huddled in an armchair . |
| 22 | But this is a partial explanation ; as Urry ( 1981 : 93 ) points out , not all industries taken over by the state are necessarily unprofitable in private hands ; a striking recent example would be the nationalization of some of the leading French banks and industrial conglomerates by the Mitterand government in 1982 ( Durupty 1986a : 77–119 ) . |
| 23 | In spite of their weariness and thirst they declined to drink the water which the Europeans had been using and which was stored in half a dozen hip-baths brought over from the Residency a week earlier ( only one of which still contained any water ) . |
| 24 | He whistled ‘ Roll Out the Barrel ’ out of tune as he pushed the few remains left over from the day towards the setting sun . |