Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Omnibus 's simplistic script favoured show-and-tell over analysis but that dangerous moral — that these years were a triumph of popular taste in art , not a suppression of it — could be glimpsed now and then . |
| 2 | If something should happen to him , there might be no institution prepared to take over . |
| 3 | Every new action required rolling over , so that they were pretty near spent by now . |
| 4 | It is hoped they will stump up the money needed to take over 10,000 properties in an effort to revive the collapsing housing market . |
| 5 | But officials refused to hand over the dog until they vetted Mia in person to ensure she was suitable to have custody of the dog . |
| 6 | I 'd like to erm just say a few words about erm the three erm reductions in the budget of the erm er the erm community services erm the erm deletion of the arts budgets , you probably have heard this before , but I I do think it 's a great pity that erm when it was on the basis and I think very little knowledge of un and understanding with erm er of what arts is about which is to delete one of the , was one of the erm the the erm things in this council which we actually do best , it 's one of the things which has attracted attention from way beyond Cambridge erm and which is undoubt has undoubtedly to communities in which it takes place , erm as far as the erm erm oh the erm community , staffing of community centres erm this looks like erm in calculations involved handing over the r the management to the community centres to erm volunteers . |
| 7 | The left histogram shows the result : each eye established control over roughly equal numbers of neurons , but the number connected to both was dramatically less than in normal animals . |
| 8 | Just imagine how the brewers would react if their customers decided to hand over only 99p out of every £1 they were charged . ’ |
| 9 | He was so handsome , and dressed as casually as she was , in trim-fitting chino trousers and tweed jacket worn open over a cotton-knit shirt . |
| 10 | Anglian Water refused to hand over details of the document . |
| 11 | But her mum refused to hand over a penny — and Chris 's parents finally decided to go to court for the cash . |
| 12 | And suddenly he was visited by a brief vision of a young man hurrying down a narrow woodland path on a dark night , in drizzling rain , a dun-coloured cloak on him , its hood drawn close over his head . |
| 13 | Mr Hovey 's survey of 61 female nurses and senior student nurses , 39 male nurses and senior student nurses and 19 doctors highlighted concerns over how male nurses are viewed by the US public . |
| 14 | Ridley had stated in an interview with the right-wing Spectator magazine which had appeared two days previously that European economic and monetary union was " a German racket designed to take over the whole of Europe " and must be " thwarted " . |
| 15 | In Stunt v. Bolton a man refused to hand over to the police the keys of a car which was causing an obstruction of the highway . |
| 16 | It was always considered necessary for a man to shoulder the main burden of work at a farm the size of ours , and I suppose the main reason why the place is a bit run down these days is because there was no man left to take over when Uncle died . |
| 17 | Here the children of the rich and famous , children destined to take over the city 's highest offices , were trained . |
| 18 | But the country 's army ruler refused to hand over power . |
| 19 | The party won a May 1990 general election by a landslide but the junta refused to hand over power and arrested or intimidated into silence its most influential leaders . |
| 20 | 35 Kurds were arrested after they attempted to storm the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm on April 7 ; the Iraqi chargé d'affaires was later expelled after the embassy refused to hand over an automatic weapon which police claimed had been fired from the embassy during the incident . |