Example sentences of "[noun sg] over [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slide the lace carriage over to the right . |
| 2 | The USA had constantly insisted that the Krasnoyarsk radar station should be dismantled , calling it a major obstacle to the conclusion of a START treaty , and had rejected as inadequate a Soviet decision on Oct. 27 , 1988 , to turn the complex over to the Soviet Academy of Sciences for civilian use . |
| 3 | Mr Reenan says he was pursuaded to hand the tape over to a Sun reporter . |
| 4 | turn the tape over in a minute , alright ? |
| 5 | What Acheson had in mind , principally , was the agreement to create a Vietnamese National Army ; a hopeful assessment of the agreement that had been reached after the long-drawn-out negotiations at Pau to turn local administration over to the Vietnamese early in 1951 ( although , as Acheson notes , the transfer date kept being postponed ) and de Lattre 's appointment to Indo-China . |
| 6 | Sir Ralph 's quarters were up a polished wooden staircase in one of the turrets of the White Tower a pleasant , sweet-smelling chamber in sharp contrast to the grim cell over in the North Bastion . |
| 7 | ‘ Honestly , ’ Gwen complained as she brought two cups of tea over to the table and sat down , ‘ Matt 's the only one who seems able to cope with him . |
| 8 | and further , and this is not meant to be a joke , in my own experience , if they get time to think quietly and realistically , I believe a whole lot of decent Conservatives who used to think pragmatically , organically and with respect for local communities , would emerge to contribute to a coalition for the future over against the ideological block that seems to think we use people to make money , instead of making money to serve people and their communities . |
| 9 | Guy urged the horse over to the largest of the mean shelters and dismounted . |
| 10 | I eased the car over to the side of the road and switched off . |
| 11 | Scott pulled the car over to the kerb , his right hand slipping inside his jacket . |
| 12 | Rory Collins pulled the car over to the left , putting two wheels up on the pale grass verge . |
| 13 | He pulled the car over to the kerb and let the engine idle while he turned to face her . |
| 14 | And and when I rang her she said yeah bring the card over in the morning if you like . |
| 15 | He handed Mariana a mug and took the tray over to the table . |
| 16 | He carried the curved steel tray over to the cage and set it down just out of reach , leaving it in view as he went back for a chair . |
| 17 | They might as well all resign and hand the club over to the TV bosses . ’ |
| 18 | Odell had to see the President over at the Mansion . |
| 19 | ‘ I used to play quite a lot of football , ’ he explains , ‘ but all I was really good at was knocking the opposition over as a last-ditch defence . ’ |
| 20 | It 's a good idea to keep a couple of sacks of gravel over from the job , so you can fill ruts and top up bald patches as the drive wears and settles down . |
| 21 | He remembered the long black shadows he had seen when crossing over in the basket lift . |
| 22 | He 's in New York , you know , though he insists on staying with a friend in that dreadful apartment over on the West side . |
| 23 | Before he left Larnaca airport on a US Navy helicopter for the hop over to the American Embassy in East Beirut , his briefcase was rigged with a microchip Gigaherz transmitter no bigger than a butter biscuit . |
| 24 | Close-coupled double-symphonic suites are quieter still in operation and a change over to a modern suite may be well worth considering . |
| 25 | That was the main , but not the only cause of the subsequent riot , when the bonnie lieges , not a few ‘ in drink ’ as they used to say at the magistrate 's court , toppled the case over with the luckless , as well as legless leprechaun still inside . |
| 26 | If he or she undertakes to make a part of his or her income over to a charity for four years or more , the tax the individual pays on that income is given by the tax authorities to the charity concerned . |
| 27 | Compression of this sort , practised more widely , might succeed in bringing the play over into a new medium . |
| 28 | They told the lieutenant over at the hotel , but he wanted to hear it directly from the company . |
| 29 | Carry over : Try not to carry part of a sentence over to the next page and if at all possible leave paragraphs intact as well . |
| 30 | Fred had once told Lorton that he reckoned to make his beer money from playing pool , and perhaps a little bit over for the dogs . |