Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As the light of the friendly flames played over their faces , Clare felt she was in a dream world where time was suspended . |
| 4 | All sorts of things got burnt when that car went over . |
| 5 | A tall Egyptian looked over , saw Paul and waved his hand . |
| 6 | A lorry rolled past us along the road , its crumbling body bright with painted pictures plastered over with dust . |
| 7 | She yawned and her long brown hair fell over her face as she stretched her arms out . |
| 8 | Luqa airfield in September 1940 , shortly after 261 Squadron took over the Hal Far Fighter Flight . |
| 9 | This story went over big with the seven and five-year olds in my party . |
| 10 | With its demise , British Rail took over the initiative . |
| 11 | He pointed to a dark roan standing with one hind foot knuckled over . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A lock of straight chestnut-brown hair flopped over her brother 's high , idealistic forehead , and he smiled his crooked , boyish smile at her . |
| 15 | British Aerospace took over from the Minstry of Defence and the work reduced . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | A few combinations scrambled over only to fall apart on landing . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This fella came over in an 18–30 steward 's blazer and he said , ‘ You 're responsible for me working here ’ . |
| 21 | The old lady fell over backwards on the pavement , with the child on top of her , and the car skidded past them , crashed into the bus-stop itself , and stopped . |
| 22 | ‘ … a German Zeppelin flew over but I felt nothing . |
| 23 | One day I was walking down Bedford Street in Belfast city centre and this bloke pulled over in his car and started tooting his horn . |
| 24 | FOUR would-be killers took over Ulster Tory Lawrence Kennedy 's home but were thwarted by his wife pressing a secret alarm button , Belfast Crown Court has heard . |
| 25 | A lady from the nearby pub bought over a couple of pints — there was quite a reception aftewards . |
| 26 | In fact they were partial letters of rubescent neon repeated over and over again that blinked past too quickly to separate each one from the next fragment . |
| 27 | Two-thirds of this group got over three-quarters of their income from state benefits and only 7 percent had any earnings from employment . |
| 28 | Out of a total of seventeen boys from this group interviewed over a period of one year , no fewer than ten had been in trouble with the police for offences not connected with activities at football matches . |
| 29 | When England was at war and sentries were posted at both ends of the tunnel , one night , early in the war , German planes droned over and dropped bombs along the railway line possibly aiming to destroy the tunnel and so to cut a supply link to the Channel ports and the British armies in France . |
| 30 | The Society of Free Fishermen took over the interests of Newhaven and continued to look after the port for the next two centuries . |