Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] over to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to duck under the ropes to come over to us , but gets stopped by a security man who asks him what he 's playing at . |
| 2 | In 1920 the 20 acres given over to farming to support the war effort , were re-possessed and relaid by Suttons . |
| 3 | It wove its way through the commercial dockside industry of the town which gave place , in time , to acres given over to the cultivation of the motor car in all its stages , new , second-hand and crushed to scrap . |
| 4 | Her knees were weak , and she sat down on a chair the press rep brought over for her ; she could not have trusted her legs to walk over to it . |
| 5 | Kebbel 's eyes drifted over to the window . |
| 6 | His voice was as sensual as raw silk , but when he saw her bewilderment his eyes drifted over to Mandy 's table . |
| 7 | With the scripts turned over to Christopher Barry and Raymond Cusick some of the earliest discussions centred around the form and shape of these Dalek survivors . |
| 8 | The one time they were encouraged to sit her on a chair , after she had scratched her sister , both parents moved over to her and fussed her , talking and explaining to her why they were putting her on the chair . |
| 9 | An increase in livestock , and larger areas turned over to rice production , are possible contributors to this effect ; a smaller contribution could come from termites . |
| 10 | All the temples were totally demolished during the Roman period , probably by Christian iconoclasts , and the sites turned over to industrial use . |
| 11 | Things are much better now , with all larger chemical companies moving over to two standard cap diameters of 63mm and 45mm . |
| 12 | Only after that will he turn the remaining details of his zombi control over to us for the final phase on the island . |
| 13 | The Marines jogged over to her , not trusting their eyes , while the woman collapsed to her knees in the sand , coughing up water which was viscous with oil . |
| 14 | Consider essential this arrangement continues and that all Jugoslav military personnel handed over to Jugoslavs . |
| 15 | East of the Fosse in Townsend Close , the buildings apparently also went out of use , with their associated plots given over to burials , which again followed the earlier layouts and rarely contained any grave goods ; observation of roadworks between Townsend Close and Heave Acre revealed yet more similar burials . |
| 16 | Nothing daunted , the mourners moved over to one side and made the most of this grand reunion . |
| 17 | That was when Nils swaggered over to her . |
| 18 | By 1953 , the stiffener works had gone , the buildings turned over to the manufacture of various inks and dyestuffs . |
| 19 | Canadian troops handed over to French , Egyptian and Ukrainian troops on July 28 . |
| 20 | On Jan. 11 Cambodian officials turned over to the USA remains thought to be those of two US servicemen killed during the Vietnam war . |
| 21 | Sun Microsystems Inc management estimates it is spending 10%-15% of its revenues moving over to Unix SVR4 : that must mean , that when the exercise is over , it will be rolling in cash . |
| 22 | It is extremely probable that it was one of the many plants brought over to Britain by the Roman occupationary army to remind the legionaries , while they shivered in the damp foggy cold , of the warmth and dryness they had left behind at home . |
| 23 | Early in the First World War substantial numbers of Czech and Slovak troops went over to the Allied side . |
| 24 | Yes erm because I doubt it , erm at the moment with the fund that we 're talking about the erm the close scheme , because most of these people in B T were originally erm in the Post Office , and of course when the they split erm then the erm Post Office workers went over to B T , they get a B T pension but in actual fact they paid into a pension scheme erm for many of them for forty years because they come into that age group , where so many people , you took a job when you were twenty o or or sixteen and you stayed with it for life , you did n't chop and change like people do these days and the majority of our members erm we can go down and I would say the vast majority of our members have actually worked for the Post Office or starting with the Post Office and then B T or staying with the Post Office for forty years , there 's no end of them they 've got in there forty years service . |
| 25 | But does their agreement about guitars carry over to their individual sounds ? |
| 26 | This last observation suggests that popular discussions of technological spillovers and ‘ the appropriability problem ’ may have exaggerated the ease with which information generated from a firm 's innovative activities spills over to other firms . |
| 27 | The main force of level bombers passed over to 6 8,000 feet virtually unchallenged , their bombs crashing down on Luqa where six Wellingtons were burnt out ( R1247 , 1381 , 1382 , 1383 , 1384 of 148 Squadron , plus the sole remaining aircraft of 70 Squadron detachment , T2816 ) and seven more badly damaged , as were several Marylands . |
| 28 | Contrary to popular belief , long timespans given over to arduous , repetitive practice do not necessarily equate with improvement . |
| 29 | It would have been better to devote the resources given over to eight pages of colour prints to larger reproductions of his seminal black and white images , perhaps treating the reader to duotone to show his tonal range . |
| 30 | The Big Bang has certainly encouraged the trend towards offering Golden Handcuffs — to maintain the Golden Hellos — and the insertion of exclusion clauses in contracts to prevent executives going over to the competition . |