Example sentences of "over for the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He announced that courts would be given powers to bind parents over for the good behaviour of their children so that they could be ‘ brought face to face with their neglect ’ . |
| 2 | Debutant fly-half Alain Penaud is about to initiate the switch which put Saint-André ( mouth open ) over for the only try of the match as a Welsh posse of Neil Jenkins , Davies and Webster cover across in vain . |
| 3 | In 1642 he was acting as a commissary , or supply officer , at Chester , sending provisions over for the Anglo-Scottish forces in Ireland . |
| 4 | But , although winning a famous victory over ( Sir ) Winston Churchill to become Labour MP for Dundee in November 1922 , he was passed over for the foreign secretaryship of the first Labour government fourteen months later . |
| 5 | I ca n't of course foretell er what 's gon na happen in Eastern Europe , but looking externally er at the lower interest rates and the er more competitive value of the pound and internally at the improved cash flow and the actions that we 've been taking over for the past couple of years and I can say that there 's now generally a more optimistic feeling in the air amongst our group companies . |
| 6 | They even gave him a Plate to carry it on — silver , that is — when they beat Tonga in a pulsating second-tier final which saw Gareth James power over for the winning try in extra time . |