Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [vb base] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | My eyes glaze over , my muscles go limp . |
| 2 | I do n't paint from dark to light or light to dark in any special sequence , but as my eyes flit over the paper I add bits of colour here and there . |
| 3 | When I return my headlights sweep over the boss and this woman . ’ |
| 4 | In the meantime I must live with the fact that I sweat like a Sun reader at a philosophy lecture every time my wheels crunch over someone else 's gravel . |
| 5 | He 's an older man and maybe an easier since he had me galloping the best of my horses lame over you , Owen . |
| 6 | Any county council that can not find elbow room within a £600 million-plus budget to look after its old people 's homes should stand aside and let some of my colleagues take over . |
| 7 | The men milked with their hats low over their eyes and did not see her . |
| 8 | Her eyes mist over as she says : ‘ Kurt and I have four children between us . |
| 9 | Composed of military commanders , political officers and Party officials , their concerns range over the entire panoply of administrative and disciplinary functions , as well as troop control and civil-military relations in the USSR 's 16 Military Districts . |
| 10 | As the colony develops , new polyps form , often on these connecting sections and their skeletons grow over and stifle earlier polyps . |
| 11 | She has n't exchanged two civil words with him since we left Kinsai , and the fact that he lets most of her insults pass over his head just makes matters worse . ’ |
| 12 | Instead , her arms crept round his body , and her hands spread over his back , as she felt his muscles straining to hold her closer . |
| 13 | Their flowers appear over several weeks in summer and are at all times most striking and handsome . |
| 14 | Time and again the women stressed their loss of independence and with that loss came frustration , insecurity and a sense of worthlessness ‘ commensurate with that which men experience over the loss of their breadwinner status ’ ( Coyle , 1984 , p. 107 ) . |
| 15 | For example , Robertson ( 1976 ) used real road distance and estimated population for 5 km squares in Argyll to test an algorithm in which services search over the population surface until locations are found which minimize the cost , time or effort involved in people travelling to these services . |
| 16 | Each year one or two farmers are killed and others seriously injured when their tractors roll over . |
| 17 | In other words , the I and Thou forms predominate over all other personal pronouns by a factor of more than 13 to 1 . |
| 18 | The trio is completed by Dick Vance , the computer ‘ driver ’ , though his activities extend over the whole breadth of keeping the flight data read-out units in working order and developing the programs and electronics generally . |
| 19 | His eyes glaze over as he focuses on the photograph of him with his beloved — Illona Staller , better known as Cicciolina , the Italian porn star turned politician who recently made headlines by offering to let Saddam Hussein ‘ rape ’ her if he freed the hostages being held in the Middle East . |
| 20 | His parents come over in — I do n't know — early twenties , I suppose . |
| 21 | Only after that will he turn the remaining details of his zombi control over to us for the final phase on the island . |
| 22 | If his fortunes improve over the next six years you are still entitled to collect on your judgement debt . |
| 23 | The fighter goes out and his reflexes take over . |
| 24 | We push his legs but they buckle at the knees , so we have to hold them up above our heads as we push to make them stay straight , then as we shove and his trousers are rolled down by the rim of stone , his arms flop over the far side of the shaft rim and it suddenly gets easier to push him . |
| 25 | Commonwealth bantamweight champion Johnny Armour needed four stitches in cut sustained on his left eye in the later stages of his points win over rugged Algerian Boualem Belkif and is unlikely to fight again until September . |
| 26 | Even Lotho ‘ Pimple ’ , Frodo 's relative , has a place in the argument because he is such an obvious Gradgrind — greedy and bossy to begin with , but staying within the law till his manipulators take over , to jail his mother , kill him and eat him too ( if we can believe the hints about Gríma Wormtongue ) . |
| 27 | What falls there are , we know not ; what rocks beset the channel , we know not ; what walls rise over the river , we know not . |
| 28 | After a while you can no longer be revolted every time you hear the slogans or your eyes glaze over while skimming through Scînteia . |
| 29 | Always boobs have been big business , blondes have had more fun , ‘ sexuality ’ has been top of the agenda and brains have been a distinct disadvantage , as we have tried to emulate the qualities of the famous beauties our men salivate over . |
| 30 | ‘ I think it is absurd to remove that beautiful countryside when we are at our wits end over what to do with deep-mined coal . ’ |