Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [adv] over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could imagine what he looked like : dark , slightly wavy hair and blue eyes , the right eyes to look out over the miles of sea all around him . |
| 2 | The Royal Bank of Scotland has designed a special account that allows you to provide for your children 's future and enable these savings to grow steadily over the years . |
| 3 | Half of the stucco work had crumbled away and some of the shutters on the windows had broken free of their hinges to dangle precariously over the street . |
| 4 | In popular imagery , the reading of a will is the occasion for bitter squabbles to break out over the deceased 's preferred distribution of assets , but the limited amount of research data which we have on this issue suggests that overt conflicts are not very common . |
| 5 | With cemeteries to maintain all over the world it is nor surprising that a variety of arrangements , contracts and agreements have had to be set up to ensure proper care and maintenance . |
| 6 | The Greater London Association for Pre-Retirement ( address on page 154 ) publishes Something Different To Do which lists unusual interests and organisations to contact all over the country . |
| 7 | What is unreasonable is for the self-interest of the large practising firms to ride roughshod over the interests of other members and the public interest . |
| 8 | In reality , the increased diversity of schools will exacerbate the differences between them , creating a pool of ‘ residual schools ’ unpopular with ambitious parents and the refuge of those too preoccupied with their own difficulties to ponder much over the quality of education provided for their children . |
| 9 | There is good reason for its common name ; the bruised foliage , whose odour has mint-like associations , induces cats to roll all over the plant , eventually ruining it , but it is said that plants grown from seed will be safe until dying down , or withering for some reason . |
| 10 | It was dead from shock before Creggan had started a single beat of his wings to rise again over the lake . |
| 11 | The Beer Orders have allowed brewers to ride roughshod over the intention of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission to lower beer prices , allow greater competition and greater choice for customers . |
| 12 | As this village was inaccessible , the enemy patrols were unlikely to reach it undetected , but if they did the platoon headquarters was sufficiently mobile for the captain , sergeant , and their two runners/signalmen to withdraw quickly over the hill , taking their radio with them — a different proposition to moving a 109-set , for now the guerrillas had dry battery radios ( see Appendix No. 5 ) designed by Lieutenant Barcham , a New Zealander , for use by the Independent Companies . |