Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 31 | This story went over big with the seven and five-year olds in my party . |
| 32 | But there was a big loss of life as well , but what frightened me was this Germans coming over on Peedie bits of rafts and the men swimming in the sea and whatnot |
| 33 | As a point of interest , our branch also collects used English and foreign stamps , while any foreign coins left over from your holidays would be welcome , too ! |
| 34 | Yeah it 's got this bit left over |
| 35 | With its demise , British Rail took over the initiative . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | Top cyclists ride over hills rather than up them , the gradients scarcely affecting their rhythm , the gears helping to keep the pedalling rate more or less constant . |
| 38 | And he was dressed only in faded jeans , his torso quite bare , his dark curly hair falling over his forehead . |
| 39 | Bill Saltman 's head appears round the door , with fingers of wet hair hanging over his leathery brown forehead . |
| 40 | He pointed to a dark roan standing with one hind foot knuckled over . |
| 41 | We have asked the people who constructed this building to take over the theatre in January until March . |
| 42 | It means we might have some money left over after |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | Some musicians stayed over in the States and opened Hawaiian music schools , plus there were dozens of mail-order courses — it just dispersed like magic . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | The total time lost by system users as a result of errors or the need to correct errors should not exceed twelve and a half hours taken over a three month rolling average ( i.e. 98% accuracy of processing ) . |
| 47 | The enemy has not been very active since the 10th August and I somehow miss the occasional mortar burst in the area , or the odd German shell passing over . |
| 48 | A lock of straight chestnut-brown hair flopped over her brother 's high , idealistic forehead , and he smiled his crooked , boyish smile at her . |
| 49 | British Aerospace took over from the Minstry of Defence and the work reduced . |
| 50 | A brown kisscurl fell over his forehead ; he chortled often , showing the sly , boyish grin and the self-satisfied air of one who had been told once too often that he was a lovable rascal . |
| 51 | The Allied guns behind us sent a few shells rushing over our heads from time to time . |
| 52 | ‘ Sadly there is n't a venue in England yet 1,200 British fans came over to cheer me on at The Hague in Holland recently . ’ |
| 53 | Young children do imitate the aggressive acts of televised models as much as live models ; furthermore , this effect persists over a considerable period of time and is particularly pronounced when the aggressive model is portrayed as successful . |
| 54 | The Proverbs of the Old Testament return over and over again to the theme that men should beware women ; the Jewish Talmud says that if you teach the Laws to a woman , you teach her lasciviousness ; the Hindu sage Manu teaches that if women go unrestrained , the result is anarchy ; and the oft-quoted Church Fathers and medieval theologians appear to respond to the idea of the Female with fear and disgust . |
| 55 | A few combinations scrambled over only to fall apart on landing . |
| 56 | At the end nearest the tube station was a block of shops containing a small supermarket run by Pakistanis , a Greek restaurant run by Cypriots , a triple-fronted emporium given over to the sale of motor-cycle spare parts and equipment and a paper shop run by people who when asked where they came from ingenuously replied that they were Cape Coloureds . |
| 57 | Indenbaum offered him some old pictures to paint over , but Modigliani picked carefully through them so as not to paint over any painting , however unimportant , which showed a hint of talent . |
| 58 | Hazel joined the Company in March 1970 and after a few months took over the role of transport manager , in which capacity she has been responsible for keeping the Company on the move ever since . |
| 59 | This fella came over in an 18–30 steward 's blazer and he said , ‘ You 're responsible for me working here ’ . |
| 60 | You are faced with half a packet of dusty dried peas , the unopened naan bread mix that seemed such a good idea at the time and the smoked oysters left over from last year 's Christmas hamper . |