Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | But ref Snoddy , with vast experience of World Cup and European football , insisted : ‘ It has never been the custom for referees to be paid their expenses in cash — or for clubs to hand over the money . ’ |
| 2 | Polish nationalism , as Rosa Luxemburg pointed out to Lenin on several occasions , was unusual in that it was not primarily a bourgeois phenomenon , but rather a substitute for ideology taken over from the szlachta by the Polish peasantry as they and the lower ranks of the gentry coalesced to form an industrial working class and a commercial bourgeoisie.14 An important component of Polish political life , and part of the damage wrought by partition , was the continuing failure to produce an ideology that went beyond the purely national to link the aspiration to exist as an independent nation with either capitalist organisation or a socialist vision of society . |
| 3 | Detroit was paving the way for Mueller to take over and run the whole bloody show from America . |
| 4 | We used to sit in the garden for hours going over her various plans to get married . |
| 5 | His extraordinary conceit and capacity for intrigue spilled over into a genuine mental instability and in 1869 he was removed from Rome to a lunatic asylum in a convent at Passy , a suburb of Paris . |
| 6 | Kragan stormed out of the small room as Kaas crossed over to Adam . |
| 7 | It would be much more constructive for a consortium of donors to sit down with governments and review their need for aid finance over , say , the next three-year period . |
| 8 | It is relieved that the most the Americans now want ( apart from money , naturally , of which the Koreans are putting up $220m ) is for Korea to take over more of the job of defending itself , thus freeing American troops and equipment based in Korea for duty in the Gulf . |
| 9 | The same is true of the Marques de Pombal , who for over a quarter of a century ( 1750–77 ) was virtual ruler of Portugal as all-powerful chief minister of King Joseph I. His efforts to revive the country 's economic life and challenge the dominance which British merchants had for decades wielded over its foreign trade , his ferocious repression of noble opposition , his brutal expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767 ( see p. 454 ) , show a far more truly radical attitude to tradition and established interests than Frederick II displayed . |
| 10 | For the moment , what concerns us is that this government is the product of change extending over several centuries , coming to fruition only in the past century . |
| 11 | She tossed her head , sending the silky swath of hair tumbling over her shoulders , and sensed rather than saw the sudden shift of emotion away from anger to a raw wild passion that stole her breath and made her legs go weak . |
| 12 | It was too humiliating … she stared at her reflection , the damp tangle of hair tumbling over her eyes and down her back , the too pale , too thin length of arms and legs , the full thrust of high , ochre-tipped breasts , balanced by the curving jut of her hips … she put her hands to her face , and felt the heat in her cheeks . |
| 13 | Throughout his performance , Mr Baker allowed a carefully oiled strand of hair to fall over his forehead , clearly an attempt to steal the crown from the famous golden locks which thrilled successive Tory conferences . |
| 14 | ‘ Meredith , I 'm crazy about you , ’ he said in his golden honey voice , a wayward lock of hair falling over his forehead . |
| 15 | This field is situated at the edge of the Zechstein salt basin and thin beds of halite extend over part of the structure . |
| 16 | Suddenly , a look of horror spread over her face . |
| 17 | While the physically gifted and superhumanly green-fingered Daisy Gamble ( Barbra Streisand ) sings ‘ Hurry , It 's Lovely Up Here ’ , the flowers on the roof of her apartment block , mostly tulips grow at an alarming yet beautiful rate , conveying a sense of freedom brimming over with life . |
| 18 | Walking about at night in the streets of Calcutta and of necessity stepping over emaciated bodies too lethargic to move , or visiting refugee shacks in beautiful Hong Kong , or standing helplessly in the filthy slums of Kampala , always the same agony and anger assailed me as it did on that cold morning in Kiel . |
| 19 | It is not possible to understand this interesting document until it is remembered that it represents a SHARE of sheep taken over and not a public SALE and then fractions of an animal become acceptable . |
| 20 | ‘ I just need a bit of luck to get over that barrier . |
| 21 | On the other hand , this poses problems both in the definition of a measure of inequality defined over full income and in its implementation . |
| 22 | A hydraulic ram was used to open these gates by means of chains passing over pulleys on the lintel of the frame , giving a velocity ration of 3 to 1 . |
| 23 | There is a danger , however , that lack of preparation to hand over the business and eventual retirement could cause problems but this will be discussed later . |
| 24 | Occupants of houses taken over by HATs will be secure tenants , but during the passage of the Bill fears were expressed about the possibility of much higher rents . |
| 25 | Oh well we had no feelings about it because I really was n't an Old Harlow person , nor was my husband and all that we could think about it was that it would be very good for the area , it would erm , bring work and employment and everything like that , but of course Old Harlow people were very , you know , a lot of them were very against it and yet , in the end , the Harlow High Street shops was , made a fortune in those first few years , you know , when there was nothing else and the , the Old Harlow High Street was n't of course paved over in those days , anything like that and it , it was a narrow , narrow high street , it was almost like taking your life in your hands walking down there because there were crowds of people obviously with all this influx of community and they er the main Chelmsford road used to come up through there , so it was a , a hell , sort of a traffic hazard really . |
| 26 | For a moment or two , the men hauled on Gabriel like a soul on the Day of Judgement fought over by angels and devils . |
| 27 | She heard the drone of some bees in the garden and the angry chatter of birds disputing over their seeds . |
| 28 | Only occasionally does the account seem like a patchwork of notes left over from his editorship of the last three volumes of Newton 's Correspondence . |
| 29 | Evidence of sons taking over from their parents was seen in Leicestershire with a redistribution of the work load between father and son . |
| 30 | I like to have a lot of vegetables left over . |