Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [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 | We used to sit in the garden for hours going over her various plans to get married . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She heard the drone of some bees in the garden and the angry chatter of birds disputing over their seeds . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Evidence of sons taking over from their parents was seen in Leicestershire with a redistribution of the work load between father and son . |
| 9 | I like to have a lot of vegetables left over . |
| 10 | Interest of £100 per annum and £40 per annum , respectively , was paid regularly until the Board of Guardians took over in 1836 , when the principal was repaid in full . |
| 11 | When there were still twenty square miles of maps left over after all the available floor was used up , she created a curtained alcove into which the jigsaw could extend . |
| 12 | Crough ( 1979 ) explores the possible morphological consequences of continents migrating over hot spots and also cites a possible example from North America ( Crough , 1981 ) . |
| 13 | But there may also be : ( 1 ) receipts of mesne profits in the case of subtenants holding over ; ( 2 ) premiums paid for surrenders or lease variations ; ( 3 ) money payable under insurance policies for damage to the scheme or for loss of rent and commissions paid by the insurers to the tenant ; ( 4 ) damages for breach of covenant ( eg dilapidations ) ; ( 5 ) interest on late rent , on reviewed rent , and on damages ; ( 6 ) grants or other public money paid for works to the scheme ; ( 7 ) compensation for compulsory acquisition . |
| 14 | Fifty-three were the sons of MPs ( 18 per cent , much like the 17 per cent of Liberals ) and twelve of these sat for the same seat , although few like Stanley Baldwin succeeded directly ; fifteen of these fifty-three were sons of Liberals , further evidence of the value of recruits brought over in 1886 . |
| 15 | Having recognised the " main point " in a chapter/ paragraph you will not fail to notice that there are an awful lot of words left over ! |
| 16 | As he spoke I could hear the rush of shells passing over heading in the direction of the German positions . |
| 17 | At least the enemy are in a similar situation probably much worse off then we are judging by the amount of shells passing over our heads to fall in their positions . |
| 18 | That evening is I crouched at the back of the slit trench , swatting the mauses and listening to the sound of shells passing over and the rain dripping steadily in through the entrance to the trench , I stared at the pool of water getting larger and hoped that the rain would soon stop , if it does n't I 'm in for an uncomfortable night . |
| 19 | The scale of the structures around them is so huge they look like teams of porters marching over a range of hills to a mine . |
| 20 | Indeed , with the great roaring fires it looked like hell and the chef , Satan , attended by an army of demons labouring over turning spits and shining platters , interlarding the dripping , roasting lambs and piglets with their own globules of sweat . |
| 21 | Swarms of bats appeared over our camp at sunset , and hippos grunted like pigs at intervals throughout the night . |
| 22 | Sometimes the pastor found himself speaking to an empty church ; sometimes to a church filled with schoolchildren ; sometimes to a congregation supplemented by the relatives of islanders brought over from the mainland , and other tourists . |
| 23 | A flouncy negligee and a pair of tights lay over one chair ; the tiny television was perched on another ; a soggy packet of frozen spinach lay beside the gas-ring ; on the crumpled candlewick of the bed an Evening Standard was open at the entertainments ' page so she could decide which film to go and see . |
| 24 | Lack of scattering does not , however , explain the existence of plateaux extending over a range of values of the gate voltage . |
| 25 | With a ruthless new breed of killers taking over the leadership reigns , the threat to the Roman Catholic community is now higher than it has ever been . |
| 26 | The analysis of the search space carried out in this chapter should help to focus attention on the discriminating requirement of top-down information in terms of the number and similarity of hypotheses competing over a stretch of the utterance , and of the distance between pruning points ( i.e. the grammar ‘ chunks ’ ) , the two factors which determine the potential combinatorial explosion of hypotheses . |
| 27 | Clem Shaw , the maker of Channel 4 's film for Cutting Edge , told the Times : ‘ We thought we 'd be looking at lots of ramblers trampling over delicate areas , but it turned out to be much more of a social perspective than an environmental one ; more of a political issue than I 'd intended . ’ |
| 28 | Newman grinned and then frowned as a mixture of emotions flashed over her face . |
| 29 | The new government , which brought in a number of technocrats to take over key economic portfolios , did not , however , include any members of the opposition or resistance movements . |
| 30 | The microcomputer firms foresee networks of micros taking over , and the minicomputer firms see networks of minis , while IBM has come up with Systems Application Architecture ( SAA ) , designed to maintain the mainframe 's iron grip on corporate data processing 's throat . |