Example sentences of "[vb pp] over [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Now , thanks in no small measure to his own contribution to the Hampshire cause , he has one ; and the only disappointment is that the climax of the match was watched by only about 8000 people , as the weather caused it to be carried over into the second day .
2 an over-ambitious agenda which takes too long to complete or has to be carried over to the next meeting .
3 Second , the Old English , descendants of settlers who had come over with the first wave of English conquest during the Middle Ages .
4 The doctor was too young to have come over in the last war .
5 Before the surrounding land was built over in the last century and subsequently , you could have seen it from miles away in every direction .
6 They will be handed over at the next town in two days .
7 That 's how we know he has n't slipped over into the next valley .
8 It had been knocked from its cradle when he had gone over with the first shot .
9 Macmillan , the publisher , had a quantity of ‘ sheets ’ left over from the first printing and shipped them over to Appleton & Co. , the American publishers .
10 It is still there , and , periodically , repressed material returns to set problems for man which remain unresolved , left over from the first parricide .
11 ‘ We need to face the frustrations left over from the second world war ’ , he says .
12 Yes I put out an appeal to er my readers to search their attics and their er lofts and their garden sheds for all the things they might have left over from the second World War .
13 The general effect is taken over in the first red-figure ( fig. 87 ) ; but the black line which replaces incision is drawn with a brush , so by nature more malleable and fluid .
14 And when the offices of the Chief Justices of the Forest were finally abolished by statute in 1817 , their powers and duties also were taken over by the First Commissioner .
15 Stone carvings and whimsies had been plastered over in the nineteenth century , but some had now been uncovered .
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