Example sentences of "over [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from an air in E♭ major exclaiming against the tyranny of love in Les caprices de l'Amour ( book 3 ) a ‘ horrible , frightful ’ key for Charpentier , and passed over altogether by the other theorists including Rameau the choice of keys in these collections bears a close family likeness to those of book 1 . |
| 2 | An amount of £30 was raised through donations and sponsorship and this was handed over together with the knitted gifts . |
| 3 | I fell over backwards in the slimy mud . |
| 4 | She realised suddenly that she was in the wrong lane , and pulled over sharply on the slippery road . |
| 5 | OK , there might n't perhaps be all that much left over now from the early joys of their marriage ; yet , in an odd sort of way , the longer they 'd abjured the divorce-courts , the stronger had grown the ties that bound them together : home , children , friends , memoria , insurance policies ; and above all , perhaps , the sheer length — the ever-increasing length — of the time they 'd spent together as man and wife . |
| 6 | These ideas and the systems associated with them carried over well into the twentieth century , but we also see steadily developing the view that higher education has more limited functions . |
| 7 | Therefore , unless hiking with considerable fortitude , the only way to approximate their journey is to take the normal road up as far as Invermoriston and then continue on its south-western fork , the A887 , and in time it becomes the road — or so I presume — ; Johnson and Boswell travelled , the one cut by General Wade , straight across the rising land and emerging a little over half-way along the present road through Glenmoriston . |
| 8 | Charlotte had bought a pocket cassette player before leaving New York and listened to the tape of Beatrix 's conversation with Maurice over and over again during the five-hour rail journey to Boston . |
| 9 | Down on the beach , marvelling all over again at the sheer sweep of it , Elizabeth took a series of picture-postcard shots . |
| 10 | But his mind had clouded over again at the wrong moment and now it was too late . |
| 11 | The trauma captured in splitting is that one is n't there ; the same trauma that castration comes to symbolise is that one is incomplete ; the trauma that can be lived over and over again in the endless by-ways of life 's failures and imperfections . |
| 12 | By the end of the struggle France had lost almost every single colonial possession she had , so that French imperial history had to begin all over again in the nineteenth century , but nobody in 1690 could have guessed at such a result . |
| 13 | This meant carrying buckets of near boiling water a distance of eighteen to twenty feet , and emptying meant doing the job all over again in the reverse direction . |
| 14 | Since both sites and nesting material are usually in short supply in a weaver bird colony , he often laboriously unravels his first attempt and using its constituents weaves it all over again in the same place . |
| 15 | And Grainne was struck all over again by the complete lack of subservience of these creatures . |
| 16 | He tightened his hold on her and she gasped involuntarily , knocked off balance all over again by the hard strength of his body pressed so close to her own . |
| 17 | Almost before she had time to realise what he had in mind , Adam lowered his head to hers and she swayed helplessly in his arms , weakened all over again by the incredible sweetness of his mouth . |
| 18 | Consequently , after the Asian Open — which Hendry won — his No. 1 position in the world was taken over briefly by the 20-year-old Scot . |
| 19 | The Headmaster 's house in Davenport Park was taken over completely by the Junior School , and a new one built for him — costing £4,621 5 10d ! — during 1954 . |
| 20 | A clock that 's going fast , looked at by someone whose mind is churning over faster by the same amount , seems to be going at the normal rate ! ’ |
| 21 | With the Technical Branch based at Southampton it was very convenient for them to carry out maintenance and to turn the engines over occasionally during the cold weather . |