Example sentences of "the [noun sg] over [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before he left Larnaca airport on a US Navy helicopter for the hop over to the American Embassy in East Beirut , his briefcase was rigged with a microchip Gigaherz transmitter no bigger than a butter biscuit . |
| 2 | Class leader Lynn Lawrence , 46 , of Hawthorne Close , Bury , has handed the money over to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund . |
| 3 | That was the main , but not the only cause of the subsequent riot , when the bonnie lieges , not a few ‘ in drink ’ as they used to say at the magistrate 's court , toppled the case over with the luckless , as well as legless leprechaun still inside . |
| 4 | The USA had constantly insisted that the Krasnoyarsk radar station should be dismantled , calling it a major obstacle to the conclusion of a START treaty , and had rejected as inadequate a Soviet decision on Oct. 27 , 1988 , to turn the complex over to the Soviet Academy of Sciences for civilian use . |
| 5 | and further , and this is not meant to be a joke , in my own experience , if they get time to think quietly and realistically , I believe a whole lot of decent Conservatives who used to think pragmatically , organically and with respect for local communities , would emerge to contribute to a coalition for the future over against the ideological block that seems to think we use people to make money , instead of making money to serve people and their communities . |
| 6 | Guy urged the horse over to the largest of the mean shelters and dismounted . |
| 7 | Now he sat out on the porch with his chair tilted back and his feet up on the rail , and he sipped at his beer as he watched the patterns of sunlight on the forest over on the far side of the track . |
| 8 | They 've taken the body over to the Medico-Legal Institute . |
| 9 | I 've informed him that we 'll be taking the place over in the near future , but not why , naturally . ’ |
| 10 | He pumped the ball over to the far post where Whitton finished off , heading past Alan Kelly from eight yards . |
| 11 | He handed Doggett the stallion 's bridle , then carried the saddle over to the spare horse . |
| 12 | Each time we crossed the causeway over to the tiny island of Reine , we paused and photographed . |
| 13 | I looked at myself in the mirror on the dressing-table over on the other side of the room . |
| 14 | To repeat the border , as illustrated , knit four plain rows of black between repeats of the design and change the direction of the motif ( by turning the punchcard over to the reverse side ) on each repeat . |
| 15 | I was dubious at first because since her illness Jennifer has become a very private person and I do n't think she would have liked all the hubbub over in the other section ; but here — ’ she glanced round at the softly decorated walls , the strategically placed water-colours and the subdued lighting ‘ — here , I think , could well be the answer . ’ |
| 16 | Would changing the printer over to the serial port help ? |
| 17 | The American Volunteer Group ( AVG ) , known the world over as the Flying Tigers achieved fame under the leadership of Claire L Chennault fighting alongside the Chinese in their pre World War Two struggle against Japan . |
| 18 | Although Ceauşescu continued to receive a daily deluge of congratulatory telegrams from tinpot rulers the world over until the last days of his rule , the reprinting of old praise from the Queen shows how desperate he was to present his people with evidence that he was acceptable to the West . |
| 19 | Very easy to simply turn into this lane instead of going right the way over to the other side . |
| 20 | She was busy at the tap over in the far corner of the cemetery , filling the empty bottle she had brought with her from the house . |
| 21 | If on the other hand the sub-contractor did not hold a tax certificate , the contractor must deduct tax from the payment and pass the deduction over to the Inland Revenue . |