Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I approached I looked wonderingly at the slight figure with the soft fairish hair falling over his brow , at the holed cardigan and muck-encrusted wellingtons . |
| 2 | Each course runs over a weekend at the centre 's headquarters in Wales . |
| 3 | Hear all that shit going over ? |
| 4 | The retiring chairman handed over the meeting to the new chairman , John Sharp who , in accepting the post , thanked Dr. Watson for his tireless work on behalf of the Village Association . |
| 5 | The retiring chairman handed over the meeting to the new chairman , John Sharp who , in accepting the post , thanked Dr. Watson for his tireless work on behalf of the Village Association . |
| 6 | If this bracing action is not achieved at the top of the backswing , it will be caused either by the right foot folding over on its side during the backswing , or the right knee moving out of alignment with the toes , before or when you arrive at the top of the swing . |
| 7 | Then the runners arrive and the sustained technical difficulty takes over the interest . |
| 8 | Last week the President instructed the Department of Commerce to seek firm proposals from private industry to take over the government 's remote-sensing satellites . |
| 9 | All sorts of things got burnt when that car went over . |
| 10 | A tall Egyptian looked over , saw Paul and waved his hand . |
| 11 | Er , particularly since it was only half right , or you could n't exactly tell which half , not very clearly , so if it 's half by Freud , and er , it was a book erm , on erm , a controversial figure arguing over very controversial pieces , and I think the psychoanalytic study did n't want to have anything to do with it , and er , er , one of the reviews of the psychoanalytic journal that said that this is the kind of book that gets psychoanalysis a bad name . |
| 12 | All that is required now is for each tip to be lifted in turn from the worktop , and the strong tape folded over to form a complete pocket at each corner . |
| 13 | If a unidirectional wind blows over a cliff face ( Fig . |
| 14 | She yawned and her long brown hair fell over her face as she stretched her arms out . |
| 15 | She started to weep , with her long brown hair falling over her face . |
| 16 | Andy Barton , founder and chief executive of Barton Textiles , was almost as broad as he was long , virtually neckless , with incongruously long brown hair curling over his collar . |
| 17 | Luqa airfield in September 1940 , shortly after 261 Squadron took over the Hal Far Fighter Flight . |
| 18 | So it appears that a general tendency to unhappy and aggressive social interaction spins over into mother-child management struggles . |
| 19 | The scenario reads : pressure on living standards added to general contempt for the regime leads to massive strikes which cause the economy to nosedive and popular discontent to boil over . |
| 20 | This story went over big with the seven and five-year olds in my party . |
| 21 | Yeah it 's got this bit left over |
| 22 | With its demise , British Rail took over the initiative . |
| 23 | Wearing an unremarkable stripy T-shirt and jeans , and with his unkempt hair straggling over his broken glasses , Chris does n't exactly exude wealth . |
| 24 | And he was dressed only in faded jeans , his torso quite bare , his dark curly hair falling over his forehead . |
| 25 | Bill Saltman 's head appears round the door , with fingers of wet hair hanging over his leathery brown forehead . |
| 26 | He pointed to a dark roan standing with one hind foot knuckled over . |
| 27 | We have asked the people who constructed this building to take over the theatre in January until March . |
| 28 | It means we might have some money left over after |
| 29 | But she smiled to herself , as she thought again of the handsome Spaniard with those black eyes full of a sense of fun and adventure , that mane of glossy hair falling over one eye — and his dark brown velvet voice , which had melted her heart a lot more than she admitted to Rosie . |
| 30 | An extreme example is bracken , Pteridium aquilinum ; Oinonen ( 1967 ) showed that individual clones in Finland were up to 1440 years old and one old clone extended over an area of 474 × 292 m . |