Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woodwork can be clearly seen and the turned balusters have been looked after over the years . |
| 2 | Not all the interests of our citizens have been looked after over the last twelve years . |
| 3 | Start thinking today what you would really like to work towards over the next few months and even years . |
| 4 | I do n't mean lying lying , the real heavy-duty , professional stuff , like politics or selling timeshares , I mean those little , easy lies that we slip into over the years . |
| 5 | Timothy West saw some of those dark Williams depressions descend from over the horizon . |
| 6 | ( This was added to over the centuries and culminated as a gigantic mansion of the early 1830s ) . |
| 7 | It was built in the 13th century on older foundations , as a shared church , serving both a convent of nuns and the local parish , and was added to over the next five centuries . |
| 8 | When the County School had moved to the Oxford side of the town in 1930 , generous provision of land had been made and that was prudently added to over the years . |
| 9 | I thought that was a decision he and his father had come to over the weekend . |
| 10 | Erm coming in from er on the A six one two from , er we 've come to over the level crossing there . |
| 11 | The arts world has almost grown accustomed to the hand-to-mouth condition in which it is kept , but what it has not become resigned to over the long period of Tory rule is the positive hostility to its aims and values . |
| 12 | However , even this situation is not ‘ new ’ if looked at over the longer term . |
| 13 | It was agreed that the procedures for data entry would be looked at over the next few months , and further discussions would be held in due course . |
| 14 | I 'm now just got their comments now , and it may be helpful if I enclose a copy to er whoever may may wish to have a copy to be looked at over the weekend . |
| 15 | Now from the , from the evidence that we 've all looked at over the l past few weeks and tell me if I 'm boring you |
| 16 | erm from the evidence we 've looked at over the past few weeks you know I would say that |
| 17 | Not much was said of over the next four hours , and the identities of Sixsmith 's supplicants emerged only partially and piecemeal . |
| 18 | Was this a habit he had grown into over the years or had he always been like this , turning his wife into an invalid before there was any real need , a man who could only see himself in a solicitous relationship with other people ? |
| 19 | I enjoy shocking people by describing how goods were introduced into households under the guise of gifts for children : the fridge in the house of the children we played with over the road was given to the youngest as a birthday present — the last thing an eight-year old wants . |
| 20 | The sceptics did not deny that by means of what was traditionally called an ‘ empirical ’ sign we might be led to indirect knowledge of something temporarily hidden : smoke from over the building is a sign that there is a fire behind . |
| 21 | The sound came from over the garden wall and I knew that no-one in that part of Gigant Street kept chicken . |
| 22 | The outer door to the estate office slammed and the inner one opened with its uneasy stick and snuffle past the strips of draught-excluders worn down and added to over the years . |
| 23 | Huy found that , during much of what he had to listen to over the next few minutes , his only defence against the temptation to break the young man over his knee was to invoke the Horus within him . |
| 24 | The population dynamics and genetics of these two species in the permanent pasture at Henfaes seemed to over the opportunity to study natural selection in action — Hutchinson 's ‘ ecological theater and evolutionary play ’ . |
| 25 | erm it 's difficult to say , but erm again that 's something they 're looking at over the next couple of weeks , but perhaps along last year 's lines — they should n't really be any higher than last year . |
| 26 | As the fuel prices come down they should n't have to surcharge , but again that 's something they 'll be looking at over the next couple of weeks . |
| 27 | Have we any idea as to how much that may grow by over the next two or three years ? |
| 28 | This is a great groove because you can superimpose the other stylistic feels we 've talked about over the groove . |
| 29 | We were particularly tempting targets and , bombarded with jeers and gallons of water , we finally fled the hamlet clutching our sopping equipment to our bosoms like hysterical mothers — little comforted by the thought that these were the spiritual mediators of the people we intended to sail with over the months ahead … |
| 30 | She 'd invited every theatre and film person she 'd run into over the past few years , and a lot she had n't . |