Example sentences of "[adj] time [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would have some time to slip over to London to act . |
| 2 | She turned and surveyed the room that was always hers when she visited Thomas , its architectural simplicity , the reassuring certainty of the heavy polished wood , the playful cubes and rectangles of the little Feininger villages which she had spent so much time dreaming over in the past . |
| 3 | Life , as John recalls it , was happy if hard , with not much time left over for fun after the daily toil was complete and certainly nothing to spare for luxuries . |
| 4 | Having spent some of my limited time pouring over heavy ( in weight ) ‘ how to paint ’ library books , and investing in impulse art book buys , I find articles by I am Simpson , Robin Stemp , Jenny Webb and many others a simple joy for a struggling amateur . |
| 5 | ‘ Also , now that the Council is well settled in its new headquarters at South Gyle and is about to embark on the implementation of Sport 2000 , the strategy designed to take sport in Scotland into the 21st Century , I believe it is a good time to hand over to someone new . ’ |
| 6 | But many of the boys took a long time to get over their paralysed state . |
| 7 | A microwave oven could be a lifesaver this Christmas and it means you 'll spend less time slaving over a hot stove . |
| 8 | There was little change in relations with the United States , although in May 1990 the North for the first time handed over the remains of US servicemen missing in action from the Korean War [ see p. 37456 ; see also p. 38295 ] . |
| 9 | Vicom says it incurred massive debt during the development its own proprietary visualisation line whilst at the same time taking over Sun 's products , and could n't attract the new development capital it required . |
| 10 | When the heir had done homage to the king , it was usual for the Justice of the Forest , on receipt of the appropriate writ , to take from him security for the payment of relief , and then to give him seisin of his Forest bailiwick ; the king 's escheator was ordered at the same time to hand over his lands to him , those appurtenant to his forestership , and whatever others he might hold in chief by other service . |
| 11 | He was doing three tasks at once : checking the statements of witnesses in a report being prepared for the Public Prosecutor and at the same time turning over the photographs and diagrams of the house in Church Row which the SOCO had put together . |
| 12 | I 've given you enough time to get over everything I 've said to you . |
| 13 | Any time left over was spent on the heterosexism we were experiencing from heterosexual women at the conferences . |
| 14 | The train was due to arrive at her destination at midday — which gave Fabia , free of any other occupation , ample time to go over and over again everything that had happened . |
| 15 | Always a favourite in London , the Russian star who opted for the West in 1974 is now in his mid-forties — absolutely the right time to change over to a repertoire well within his present compass . |
| 16 | His idea , she realised , was that if he saw to it that she had enough work to keep her occupied both at work and at home , there would be little time left over , if she wanted to keep on top of her job , for any social life with Travis . |
| 17 | In spite of what Mr Kawawa said about the inevitability of capitalists ' misusing their press in a country like Tanzania , no plans were made at that time to take over the Standard . |
| 18 | The examples all have the same structure : a well-defined quantity is recorded at successive equally-spaced time points over a specific period . |