Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb base] over the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | If you open you 've got gangs of young lads patrolling the town , even with whips and if they get over the door you 've had it . |
2 | If you open you 've got gangs of young lads patrolling the town , even with whips and if they get over the door you 've had it . |
3 | Which may not rank the outsiders in the eyes of the Ladbrokes odds-maker , but if they look over the fence they will certainly be able to see the outsiders from where they have been placed . |
4 | Why then do their minds go blank as soon as they turn over the question paper ? |
5 | The sudden roar as they sweep over the horizon is part of life in this otherwise quiet stretch of countryside-often alarming enough to send children into bursts of frightened tears . |
6 | The exterior surface of most ammonoids is covered with ribbing — dense on some species , sparse on others — the ribs often split into two or more smaller ribs as they pass over the back of the whorls . |
7 | This pattern is made not only by the dancers ' feet as they move over the surface but also by the dancers ' bodies as they move through space . |
8 | These worms have large buccal capsules and feed by ingestion of plugs of mucosa as they move over the surface of the intestine . |