Example sentences of "[verb] over [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | He imagined gravel being sifted , all the particles , the minute stones , being picked over by some policeman whose job it was to do that , the tiny flints laid in one tray , the wood fragments in another , and then , in a third , the shot . |
| 2 | The very prospect of her life being picked over like some succulent titbit chilled her to the bone . |
| 3 | And I saw that the shed window had been boarded over with some plywood , and the board had a number beneath which was the signature ‘ Popova ’ . |
| 4 | Note the Fab domain 1 is flipped over by some 90° with respect to CD2 domain 1 . |
| 5 | By the time of Napoleon 's war against Prussia and his defeat of Frederick William III 's armies at Jena and Auerstadt in 1806 , the people of Danzig were far from disloyal to the Prussian cause , far from willing to throw off Prussian rule , lest they be handed over to some form of Polish domination . |
| 6 | Going over to some friends in Stockwood . |
| 7 | There are concerns that , once released , GEMs might exhibit some previously unknown pathogenicity , might take over from some naturally occurring bacteria or pass on some perhaps unwanted trait to indigenous bacteria . |
| 8 | For a moment the two gentlemen stared at him in perplexity , as he shook his head , bubbling over at some private joke , until he caught the puzzlement on both faces . |
| 9 | A month ago Nigel Spink was Villa 's first choice but at Birmingham at the Coca Cola Cup Spink was injured and Bosnich took over amidst some prophetic words . |
| 10 | The handing over of some 12,000 Croats to Tito 's forces in the days after 19 May will be referred to in later sections of the report . |
| 11 | In terms of the definition of er what is historic York I think again an issue we went over for some length of time at the greenbelt inquiry , I would draw your attention back to my earlier comments that York is basically a modern industrial city with a very precious historic core , that historic core er represents no more than actually five percent of the built up area , that something like eighty five percent of the city was built after eighteen hundred , the view that was expressed by the County in N Y Two , in terms of the definition of the greenbelt , the Greater York greenbelt and its purposes was not accepted by the City Council , we do not accept that all of the func elements of the York greenbelt contribute towards preserving the character of the historic city , we rely on the the fact that the two comments the Senior Inspector made at this , the the green wedges and historic core itself that establish the historic character of the city , there are many parts of the edge of York which could repli be replicated in many cities , historic or otherwise around the country and finally just coming back to the issue of scale of development erm the point I should have made earlier about the house builders figures for the city of York is that the house builders did suggest a figure of four thousand for the city , erm , I 'm not aware on what basis that was made , but clearly my evidence would quite clearly indicate that I believe that could not be accommodated , certainly on any known sites within the cit current city boundary , thank you Chair . |
| 12 | Compasses capable of drawing arcs of this size are rare , so I used a thin strip of 7x1mm mahogany I had left over from some modelling , it 's available at most model shops and is excellent stuff , if a trifle expensive . |
| 13 | Unless it was the flowers left over from some recent wedding — a country wedding — meadow and hedgerow flowers with huge sprays of beech leaves , creamy cow parsley mixed with great white daisies and lilac . |
| 14 | Outside the party the syndicalists had formed a " Left " of the unions and this had been taken over to some extent by the Communist Party of Great Britain , founded in 1920 . |
| 15 | A crotchety old bugger ( any kid 's grandfather ) who had , in a state of terror , escaped in his machine from an advanced civilisation on a distant planet which had been taken over by some unknown enemy . |
| 16 | More recently Marrakesh had been taken over by some of the biggest names in haute couture . |
| 17 | He went bounding up the stairs , three or four at a time , praying to himself the room had n't been taken over by some amorous couple while he 'd been away , cursing himself for doubting her . |
| 18 | Somehow he managed to make it fun , the way he made so many things fun , and , now he was either dead or else taken over by some force I could not even begin to understand , there was nothing whatsoever to keep me in the Church . |
| 19 | ‘ Tell you what , I 'll have one of the men come over with some proper equipment . |
| 20 | The Russians should have the courtesy to move over for some miles into middle Asia , where there is an abundance of space that lies close to them but far from us : let Russia give us sufficient coast on the Black Sea so that , from there we can resettle our beggars and peasants in Asia Minor … |