Example sentences of "[verb] over [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | M. Dupont had not once looked over in Mr Lewis 's direction during the course of this speech , and indeed , once the company had toasted his lordship and were seated again , all those present seemed to be studiously avoiding looking towards the American gentleman . |
| 2 | Paul Shipton is doing the initial writing , and his manuscript will be looked over by Tom Hutchinson before being finalized . |
| 3 | No sir , my job was then to pass over to Mr who made the ultimate decision as to what to do about the incident . |
| 4 | This is the sort of CD that the ‘ ordinary ’ music-lover is likely to pass over in favour of something better known , on the assumption that ‘ German Harpsichord Music before Bach ’ would be of interest to the specialist only . |
| 5 | The consequence of this progressive decline in popularity has been not only a sustained attack on what are perceived as the inadequacies of communist ideology and the Soviet system itself in the 1980s ( and there is no more iconoclastic an exponent of this form of criticism than Nizan 's own grandson , Emmanuel Todd ) , but more specifically , a tendency to overplay the critically dissident aspects of Nizan 's life and work , and to pass over in silence the more constructive , orthodox communist slant of his writings . |
| 6 | A lorry rolled past us along the road , its crumbling body bright with painted pictures plastered over with dust . |
| 7 | And they almost went in front on eight minutes , Michael Surgeon beating the Comrades ' off-side trap only to see his well struck 20-yard drive brilliantly tipped over by 'keeper George Cathcart . |
| 8 | Clive Allen missed one great chance six minutes before half-time when his snap shot from inside the box , following a superb pass by Julian Dicks , was brilliantly tipped over by Bees ' keeper Graham Benstead . |
| 9 | Leaburn rose above the blue shirts but his header was tipped over by Leicester keeper Carl Muggleton . |
| 10 | Tommy and Iain head over to Christopher 's . |
| 11 | He would have some time to slip over to London to act . |
| 12 | Three times in December he stopped over at Amsterdam airport , bound for Ghana and Switzerland and back to Paramaribo . |
| 13 | On his return from China on Dec. 30 Herzog stopped over in Kazakhstan when he met with that country 's President , Nursultan Nazarbayev . |
| 14 | ‘ I stopped over in Barbados . |
| 15 | Things are definitely happening over in Jersey : they 've converted a fort in St. Helier into a leisure centre , with squash courts etc . |
| 16 | A " feeling of knowing " sometimes accompanies an aspect of the dream which is carried over into wakefulness ( for instance the certainty that I could fly when I had my flying dream ) . |
| 17 | To check whether the relative emphases in the programme get carried over into government priorities , we can count the sentences devoted to each topic and see if these relate over time to spending in various areas . |
| 18 | In fact , school is an institution which has little meaning for ‘ the lads ’ : it has merely to be ‘ got through ’ as enjoyably as possible — by ‘ having a laff ’ and rehearsing the loyalties and possibilities for defiance and resistance which will be carried over into work . |
| 19 | An example is the idea that multiplying a number always makes it bigger — an idea correctly acquired from experience with whole numbers , but commonly carried over into work with decimal or fractional numbers less than one , where it causes widespread error . |
| 20 | The war had required a high degree of economic planning , much of which was carried over into peacetime . |
| 21 | A coalition government was formed in May 1915 , continued under Lloyd George in December 1916 , and carried over into peacetime in 1918 . |
| 22 | Differences in lifetime economic and employment status are carried over into retirement through private asset ownership , and these differences have possibly not diminished significantly . |
| 23 | It 's basically the body that Rickenbacker introduced first on the Combo 650 and Combo 850 guitars back in 1957 , the same shape they later carried over to Lennon 's favourite , the model 325 . |
| 24 | ( b ) Could this idea be carried over from boiler inspections to drug inspections ? |
| 25 | Rain caused delays at Lord 's so that the match had to be carried over till Sunday , but it made no difference to Richards . |
| 26 | You will realise that this combination of red-ochre , of green gloomed over by grey , the black streaks surrounding the contours , produces something of the sensation of anguish , called " noir-rouge " from which certain of my companions in misfortune frequently suffer |
| 27 | Glendenen probably remembers the match best for having to face a 14-ball opening over from Essex 's former Hampshire paceman Steve Andrew , who currently has a fractured shoulder . |
| 28 | More recently she headed over to Dublin to work on an album with producer Kevin Moloney who , in the past , has masterminded releases by the likes of Sinead O'Connor , U2 and Clannad . |
| 29 | The next day we headed over towards St François Longchamp , in the Maurienne Valley , discovering that the area is a lot larger than first meets the eye . |
| 30 | I used to ride both horses in the early days to take them to be shod over to Lowson 's Smithy at Romaldkirk . |