Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [to-vb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | On June 22 , West Germany agreed to restructure over a 14-year period a debt of DM3,000 million due for payment by March 1991 . |
| 2 | Farag tried to look over his shoulder . |
| 3 | Christie was to be married at Easter , but Ann planned to go over in late February to help with the wedding preparations and also , to take Sarah and see her settled in before she started her job . |
| 4 | Some outside force seemed to take over Patrick 's body . |
| 5 | When factory industry began to take over , however , the mills were built at Hebden Bridge below , to take advantage of the water-power provided by the river and the transport facility of the canal , so Hebden Bridge grew fast into a busy mill town whilst Heptonstall remained as it had always been . |
| 6 | ‘ I felt pretty much the same , ’ she explained as his lips began to run over her forehead . |
| 7 | But slowly another emotion began to take over — anger . |
| 8 | Dogs and cats , of course birds , and er since the war , erm second war erm in the fifties , er the aquatic side started to take over and er people kept fish . |
| 9 | Using a different sampling method , the Hetherington study aimed to analyse over 20% of television broadcasts relating to the Commons up till the end of March . |
| 10 | Thus , when in G. Cantor 's ( 1955 ) experiment the subjects had to learn over a series of trials a simultaneous discrimination between faces of the sort shown in fig. 5.2 , the task required them to carry over information from one trial to the next . |
| 11 | When Mrs Hollidaye said that she and Miss Lilian had to walk over to fetch the milk from the home farm , she suggested that Dot should stay and rest by the fire . |
| 12 | When the cashier refused to hand over any money , Mrs Fitchew walked out , apparantly laughing . |
| 13 | Average response speed tended to decrease over a period of twenty minutes in sleep-deprived subjects , unlike in rested controls . |
| 14 | Over the period 1989–94 , says the study , Mexico stood to need over $50 billion ; despite direct foreign investment , official loans , and bilateral deals , it was $23 billion short . |
| 15 | If a low-ranking muderris wanted to change over to the career of kasabat kadi , moreover , he was immediately better paid : a provision of the Kanunname states that if a 20-akce muderris in the were to become a kadi , he was to be given a 45-akce kadilik . |
| 16 | Lucien 's heart seemed to turn over within his ribs . |
| 17 | Her heart seemed to turn over . |
| 18 | In fact , as the great challenge of the conference drew nearer , an astonishing change seemed to come over my father . |
| 19 | A further 16,000 houses would be needed for the predicted 40,000 incomers expected to arrive over this period . |
| 20 | Somewhat reluctantly Mountbatten agreed to hand over the administration in Burma the following month . |
| 21 | At the start of the year Iceland agreed to take over 48 foodhalls from Littlewoods , including Belfast , as part of its expansion drive which will see 100 new shops this year . |
| 22 | She recalled Alain Gebrec 's warning that the edge was unstable in places ; panic threatened to take over ; she was on the point of abandoning the whole insane exercise when , almost at the very edge of the cliff , she spotted something that gleamed in the sun . |
| 23 | Just then the scene began to mist over . |
| 24 | Science and education may have been on the minds of the panel , but the youngsters preferred to range over topics such as nuclear disarmament and the ethics of energy . |
| 25 | Major-General Gracey had to take over . |
| 26 | Far from finding hostility she felt people were very receptive , and her second in command was so competent Eva continued to puzzle over her own sideways move . |
| 27 | If America or Russia wanted to take over France 's place there , they were welcome to it . |
| 28 | She was just trying to find the right words to explain why she thought Mrs Richards would enjoy meeting Abuelo Freitas 's granddaughter , when Consuelo arrived to take over the evening shift , and the conversation switched to other matters . |
| 29 | As soon as he was out of uniform , Connor applied to take over the management of the public-house from his parents — Mam and Da were getting on in years , and Da was n't a well man — but the Brewery were not prepared to lease the pub to a bachelor . |
| 30 | The communists within the CPKI moved to take over as much power as they could for themselves in August-September and this , too , weakened the KPR . |