Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb -s] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My enthusiasm for my cooking spills over into the restaurant , ’ he said . |
| 2 | So one of my giants saunters over and kicks the two miserable chickens into positions suitable for having their shoes and trousers pulled off . |
| 3 | oh yeah bu you see , er er , you 're not supposed to life anything for if one of my grandsons falls over , the first thing you do is pick him up you know ! |
| 4 | My daughter lives over on the main Oxford road . |
| 5 | He said , you anoint my head with all , my cup runs over ! |
| 6 | Yes , Sebastian , no Sebastian , my cup runneth over . |
| 7 | Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies : thou anointest my head with oil ; my cup runneth over . |
| 8 | Suppose that I am sitting by a bowl of fruit ; my hand hovers over a pear , then a peach catches my eye ; their distinctive favours revive in memory and pull against each other , then my hand moves over and picks out the peach . |
| 9 | Suppose that I am sitting by a bowl of fruit ; my hand hovers over a pear , then a peach catches my eye ; their distinctive favours revive in memory and pull against each other , then my hand moves over and picks out the peach . |
| 10 | If someone mentions things like ration books , powdered egg , air raids and so on , my stomach turns over and I feel quite depressed . |
| 11 | If someone mentions things like ration books , my stomach turns over . ’ |
| 12 | She tends to wear full denim skirts with lace borders and her hair falls over her face while she plays . |
| 13 | The second deterrent is a financial one : course participants do not have to pay fees , since the course itself is financed by the DES , but they do have to fund their living costs over a ten-week period — a not inconsiderable financial commitment . |
| 14 | THE Prime Minister and the caterer , Clare Latimer , were yesterday given a public apology and undisclosed damages in the first round of their libel claims over allegations of an affair between them . |
| 15 | " Consideration " for stamp duty purposes may include liabilities which Newco takes over from the vendor ( see s57 Stamp Act 1891 ) . |
| 16 | It is recommended that their training stretches over a period of about 15 months from the time that they take up their post . |
| 17 | ITs tank runneth over . |
| 18 | The stampable consideration will be increased by the amount of the liabilities which Target takes over from the transferor company ( see s57 Stamp Act 1891 ) . |
| 19 | The 15 most heavily indebted developing countries ( see p. 37017 ) in 1988 as a group increased the surplus of their merchandise exports over their imports to nearly dollars 28,000 million ; the dollar value of their exports rose above the 1981 peak for the first time since the onset of the Third-World debt service problem , although the GATT report pointed out that this trade performance needed to be seen against the background of rising interest charges and continued lack of fresh capital inflows . |
| 20 | We are thus faced with the following problem : what organization in the early sea-urchin embryo ensures that the proportions of cells that form the skeleton , the gut , and the surface layers , will be the same in embryos whose cells can be quite extensively rearranged and whose size varies over a factor of eightfold ? |
| 21 | " We do it once or twice a week , " said a woman with two children whose boyfriend comes over to stay . |
| 22 | Yet it is she whom Abraham hands over to Sarah to do with as she pleases , and who is treated so cruelly by her mistress that she is forced to escape into the sands . |
| 23 | His assailant reaches over , pulls the cash drawer from the till , empties it of its £12 in notes and walks into the sunlit Reading streets . |
| 24 | If the stress is high enough and he is basically insecure — his adult has not turned off his child 's ‘ all my fault ’ — his child takes over with a ‘ nothing to do with you ’ response . |
| 25 | As his fist crashes over , Des thumps him . |
| 26 | A boy with a cardboard box on his head and two cardboard boxes on his feet shuffles over . |
| 27 | Andy takes the man 's calves under his armpits and lifts ; I get underneath and force the man 's shoulders up ; his head goes over onto the stone rim of the vent , beneath the grating . |
| 28 | And if he decides to be a member of the Government he resigns his parliamentary seat and his replacement takes over without the need for a by-election . |
| 29 | His interest in his subject carries over , first into drawing and painting because he enjoys this , then on into writing about it , because he is writing about something he is interested in and at first we must not be too concerned about his writing or his spelling or his grammar . |
| 30 | He had enormous fluency and ease , often in High Church devotional poems in which the physical urgency of a boy in his teens spills over into sexual imagery in describing his love of Christ . |