Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raw council estates spilled over the fields at the edge of town , marring the views . |
| 2 | When the sick and exhausted Armenians reached Beirut after the Ottoman collapse , they were allowed to build shacks on the swamps of Bourj Hammoud in the east of the city and then to erect houses which look to this day curiously Balkan , their wooden balconies hanging over the narrow streets of Camp Marash . |
| 3 | There were oil lamps hanging over the verandah , and they threw black shadows towards the mosque entrance , and towards the shop where clothes were sold , long since shut . |
| 4 | If six garages are now placed over the five cars on the top shelf ( leaving one garage empty ) , and four garages placed over the four cars on the bottom shelf ( all garages being full ) , then about one in three four-year-olds now maintain that the bottom shelf has more cars . |
| 5 | Does he realise that , for example , in University college , Cardiff it is proposed to put an extra 1,000 students into the humanities building over the next three years ? |
| 6 | In the early spring , Peckham will meet the health minister , William Waldegrave , to present him with a set of firm plans developed over the past months . |
| 7 | Having the right in the more serious cases to appeal over the head of the chief constable to the Watch Committee had little effect . |
| 8 | We passed splendid mare's-tail waterfalls where tiny becks tumbled over the cliffs , and watched oyster-catchers and cormorants wading and diving . |
| 9 | In 1957 Macmillan inherited the leadership of an unpopular government , lagging behind Labour in the opinion polls , but the policies pursued over the years to 1959 managed eventually to retrieve the party 's position : Macmillan 's nuclear ‘ defence ’ policy seemed at the time a plausible way to reclaim the status of a world power on the cheap ; the formation of EFTA was negotiated ; Macmillan sacked the deflationary Chancellor Thorneycroft and substituted Heathcoat-Amory who instituted another convenient bout of pre-election tax cutting . |
| 10 | Bare granite peaks towered over the south all day and the pools and falls seemed to grow bigger and better every mile . |
| 11 | The company , founded in 1974 to create and publish practical reference books for adults , now sells its titles in over 80 countries and in 37 languages and almost 90 per cent of the 560 titles originated over the company 's history are still in print . |
| 12 | All I saw were this pair of legs sticking over the desk and him going aaaaagh ! |
| 13 | Two years ago , there were huge doubts hanging over the future of Cowley . |
| 14 | It hurls itself around the island and in seconds the sea is alive , ugly waves crashing over the boats , white horses flicking over the surface on the hooves of the wind . |
| 15 | A similar situation in some respects developed over the office of fiscal of the regality court of Lennox , or Mugdock , an appointment which was held by William Weir , the town clerk of the burgh of Rutherglen , a gentleman who also officiated as commissary of Hamilton and Campsie . |
| 16 | The boy was sitting up , watching him , his dark , over-large eyes puzzling over the shapes that lay there on the cloth . |
| 17 | Dexter had been stationed in Brixton several years before and he inhaled the familiar atmosphere as he wound along Coldharbour Lane towards Peckham : the dilapidated shops selling second-hand furniture and televisions , the handsome couple posing against a car as though for a fashion magazine , the parked cars tumbling over the pavement . |
| 18 | And the Monster was sat in the bucket , filling the bucket with its bloated pink body , its great bulging legs hanging over the edge . |
| 19 | When , during the summer , disputes arose over the scope of Catalan autonomy and Basque local government , Catalanists and Basque Nationalists concluded that the right was also bent upon reasserting central power . |
| 20 | To avoid being thrown when sailing in waves , look ahead to choose the best course and allow the waves to flex over the waves . |
| 21 | Doubts arose over the length of time which might elapse before the child ceased to be regarded as ‘ newly born ’ , and the Infanticide Act 1938 extended the definition to the killing of a child within twelve months of its birth by a mother whose mind is disturbed either by reason of her not having fully recovered from the effect of giving birth to the child or by reason of the effect of lactation consequent upon the birth of the child . |
| 22 | Doubts arose over the competence of the system to cope with cases of such magnitude , Concern was expressed by lawyers , families , councillors , and even Orkney 's re-instated Reporter , Mrs Katherine Kemp , over the relationship between Orkney Islands Council 's Social Work Department and the Children 's Panel . |
| 23 | A bitter smile crossed his face as his eyes ranged over the top men in the giant corporation . |
| 24 | There are simple spinelets scattered over the dorsal surface of the disk although they are often rubbed off in preserved specimens . |
| 25 | Allowed my eyes to wander over the whole of it , he wrote , and almost with satisfaction . |
| 26 | TWO teenagers quizzed over the murder of schoolgirl Helen Gorrie , 15 , were last night released without charge by police in Horndean near Havant , Hants . |
| 27 | ( But the new tube was less sure of itself , and revised versions of it during the next few months whiplashed over the map of south London like a demented snake . ) |
| 28 | His eyes flickered over the bulging hold-all . |
| 29 | When I looked carefully I could see lots of orange fragments scattered over the sodden grass and glistening brown earth of the field . |
| 30 | Various disputes occurred over the years , culminating in a protracted battle at the beginning of the 19th century , with the owner , William Humphries Barrett . |