Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb -s] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie added : ‘ Keith sees Rose whenever he wants , either by popping in here or she goes over to him for the day . ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps the first task facing Mr Chris Patten , or whoever takes over from the current Governor , Lord Wilson , will be to break the deadlock over whether the People 's Liberation Army of China should set up shop in the glossy commercial heart of Hong Kong island . |
| 3 | Well this girl she 's got two children at and Nora 's got in with her , but her husband is an Iranian so she goes over to Iran every now and again , she 's got a key , I said I 'm not phoning to bloody Iran for you Nora . |
| 4 | Er there seems to have been a rash of resignations recently , it all started with David Gower , then Graham Taylor and last week we heard that Mary Whitehouse is standing down now it 's Joan and thank you Joan for your sterling work as ticket subscription secretary Joan reorganized the system and I 'm sure that whoever takes over from Joan will start with an immaculate set of facts and figures . |
| 5 | Such overly anxious and insecure horses are usually found amongst the Thoroughbred population , where speed is of such importance that it predominates over every other desirable characteristic . |
| 6 | Place this on the very top of the roof so that it bends over on each side . |
| 7 | For instance , in the Finale Paray drives the music very hard from start to finish , with the result that it comes over as something genuinely exciting as well as grand and loud . |
| 8 | A realist approach lays stress on the belief that the world has an existence independent of any observer ; that it stands over against us as an entity in its own right . |
| 9 | For example , the employees that he takes over may have more generous terms of employment than his existing staff , or the vendor may have a collective agreement with or have recognised a trade union . |
| 10 | And to match our assurance , our being so full of the Spirit that he bubbles over from us , there is the other side of the picture : we also groan in the Spirit , and he groans with us ( Rom. 8:26 ) . |
| 11 | An account executive working on the business of a merchant bank might become so interested in financial matters that he moves over to his client 's advertising department , but as a general rule , the chances of rising to the top are greater in an agency . |
| 12 | I have tried taking the castle out , but this only makes him unhappy , so he goes over to the heater and swims underneath it . |
| 13 | It will be interesting to see if Novell comes to any of the same business decisions once it takes over . |
| 14 | But she could still be asked to leave with just one month 's notice if someone takes over the 20-year lease . |
| 15 | What else , after all , was Christ in his death but the keenest image of abjection and arrogance , the epitome of that transgressive masochism which has played such an important part in making and unmaking our culture , not least in the figure of the martyr , and which figures over and again in the cultural depictions of the crucifix ? |
| 16 | I mean , if somebody says , ‘ Do n't step on my blue suede shoes ’ , and somebody comes over and steps on his blue suede shoes , what does that guy think is gon na happen to him ? ’ |
| 17 | James pushes Sandra and she falls over onto the cake that Sharon has just baked in cookery . |
| 18 | Isabelle 's lids grow heavy and she falls over , her head cocked to one side . |
| 19 | If she bends over . |
| 20 | And er she says Jean I swear to God she says if she comes over near my door , I 've told Jim she says , I , I 'm ready for her I 'll beat her round that square and she said I 'm not like that but she says that 's just the way she says , and she hurt my kids when I sent them Easter eggs over , doing that she says , that really galled me , she says cos they were hurting my kids rather than me . |
| 21 | They embrace , then separate , and one goes over to a woman in the crowd with a child cradled in her arms . |
| 22 | And Eddie goes , let's use sellotape so he got all this sellotape all over him and he 's like like mummified in sellotape and then they , he goes right , we 're the hard men and we 're really gon na tell him who 's boss so erm and he goes over to him and he goes hello , erm , and he goes what are we going to say ? |
| 23 | and the other girl and they go to this very chichi Chinese restaurant and when they walk in the manager of the restaurant recognizes his father who is obviously a very important man in China before the revolution and he goes over , chats so in honour of the Mr Moo Bing , you know |
| 24 | I say yes and he keels over , being asleep before his head reaches the floor , his shoulders and arms still out of the bag . |
| 25 | ‘ The very first night I played with him , he 's up there blowing and he walks over to me and says , ‘ Play somethin' , Robben . ’ |
| 26 | And he rolls over and then he sort of put his legs up . |
| 27 | Then we 're at the desk and he leans over all cocky like and actually gets hold of my chin and says , ‘ Why so glum , my fair one ? ’ |
| 28 | You scramble on to it and it topples over ; you feel you will never learn the strange , simple secret . |
| 29 | You only have to look at a prole in this book and it rolls over to have its tummy tickled . |
| 30 | Gutters will overflow , often by no means gently and valley water can back up under tiles and underfelt , until it spills over into the room below . |