Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [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 | Now the cafés in the quiet , tree-lined High Street were a little shabby , and the handsome Georgian houses taken over as bank premises , solicitors , offices , and old people 's homes . |
| 5 | This last observation suggests that popular discussions of technological spillovers and ‘ the appropriability problem ’ may have exaggerated the ease with which information generated from a firm 's innovative activities spills over to other firms . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Three to six years later tall herbs take over ; in Sheffield we find rosebay willow-herb , tansy ( Tanacetum vulgare ) , goat 's rue ( Galega officinalis ) , wormwood ( Artemisia absinthium ) , mugwort ( A. vulgaris ) and occasionally golden rod ( Solidago canadensis ) among others . |
| 10 | Then three to six years later , tall herbs take over ( centre ) . |
| 11 | Then the runners arrive and the sustained technical difficulty takes over the interest . |
| 12 | Normally , you will be able to agree to disagree when necessary , but if conflicting attitudes spill over into lasting antagonism , then you are heading for trouble . |
| 13 | As the light of the friendly flames played over their faces , Clare felt she was in a dream world where time was suspended . |
| 14 | The fact that political authorities rule over whole communities itself dictates some of the ways in which the question of the justification of such authorities should be formulated . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | All sorts of things got burnt when that car went over . |
| 17 | A tall Egyptian looked over , saw Paul and waved his hand . |
| 18 | It was difficult to determine whether the explosions were from the German shells or from the Allied shells passing over , with the usual one or two dropping short . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A lorry rolled past us along the road , its crumbling body bright with painted pictures plastered over with dust . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | If a unidirectional wind blows over a cliff face ( Fig . |
| 23 | She yawned and her long brown hair fell over her face as she stretched her arms out . |
| 24 | She started to weep , with her long brown hair falling over her face . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Luqa airfield in September 1940 , shortly after 261 Squadron took over the Hal Far Fighter Flight . |
| 27 | So it appears that a general tendency to unhappy and aggressive social interaction spins over into mother-child management struggles . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Nature has been banished , technology and its concomitant values reign over a harshly masculine world . |
| 30 | Extreme care is needed not to space the tracks so closely together that any high voltages flash over between tracks can occur . |