Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [to-vb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I felt pretty much the same , ’ she explained as his lips began to run over her forehead . |
| 2 | Thus , when in G. Cantor 's ( 1955 ) experiment the subjects had to learn over a series of trials a simultaneous discrimination between faces of the sort shown in fig. 5.2 , the task required them to carry over information from one trial to the next . |
| 3 | A further 16,000 houses would be needed for the predicted 40,000 incomers expected to arrive over this period . |
| 4 | Science and education may have been on the minds of the panel , but the youngsters preferred to range over topics such as nuclear disarmament and the ethics of energy . |
| 5 | In the capital , Caracas , the rebels tried to take over the government palace and the presidential residence , La Carlota airport , the Ministry of Defence , Navy and National Guard buildings and the national television station . |
| 6 | All the bitterness of the last two years seemed to boil over and come tumbling out . |
| 7 | Although the government found the ‘ service city ’ far from satisfactory , it was not until Catherine II 's reign that centrally appointed officials began to take over many of these functions . |
| 8 | However we , the next thing we knew was the flying bombs began to come over . |
| 9 | There were hundreds of different languages spoken on the Australian continent when the Europeans began to take over in the late eighteenth century . |
| 10 | British Airways agreed to take over Dan-Air for a nominal £1 ; the company will also assume Dan-Air 's liabilities , estimated at £35m . |
| 11 | He was proud of his father , who was an earl and a king , but he wished his father stayed in Orkney all summer , as Otkel did , who had taken his son fighting once , when pirates tried to take over Foula . |
| 12 | A strong smell of coffee emanating from the basement reminded her that Mrs Crouching , her landlady , was having one of her monthly ‘ evenings ’ — mild social occasions when she and her friends met to talk over important topics of the day . |
| 13 | At the same time , in some towns at least , bishops came to take over the duties of such late Roman officers as the defensores , who had been expected to defend the weak . |
| 14 | He tried to sniff back the wetness that had sprung to his eyes , but a few hot tears managed to spill over and course down his burning cheeks . |
| 15 | The boys had the use of a 25 metre pool , but the girls had to train over 19 metres , though that did n't prevent three of them winning a silver medal at the Olympics in Antwerp . |
| 16 | Environmentalists trying to defend Rainham Marshes failed to win over local opinion in the face of a sophisticated public relations campaign by the developers . |
| 17 | Also on May 2 another Croatian policeman was killed in the mainly Croatian coastal village of Polaca when Serbian police tried to take over the Croatian-manned police station ; and a helicopter carrying among others the Vice-President of the Croatian Federal Assembly , Vladimir Seks , was fired on and forced to make an emergency landing after it took off from Kijevo . |
| 18 | After spending a day settling in to their hotel rooms and enjoying a display by the Orange County Police Department , the children began to bubble over with excitement at the thought of visiting Disney 's Magic Kingdom . |
| 19 | To earn full grant-aid , Terminal courses had to extend over a minimum of twelve meetings , and aggregate twenty-four hours of attendance for a minimum of twelve students . |
| 20 | Unlike their counterparts in the longue durée , they were seen not so much as steady constraints with which societies had to contend over long periods , but as patterns of change which were themselves part and parcel of social life . |
| 21 | A pail of cold water for washing was set on the floor so that performers had to bend over to use it . |
| 22 | Catholics and Protestants united to raise over 4000 troops for the English defence , although in the event they were not needed . |
| 23 | About an hour before reaching Jura dark clouds began to roll over on us from its lofty peaks , and soon we had a perfect torrent of rain . |
| 24 | In 1979 , as more and more pressurised water reactors were ordered throughout Europe , EEC ministers decided to take over the project . |
| 25 | Women had to clamber over men to succeed 10 years ago . |
| 26 | Unions tried to take over the country . |
| 27 | They discovered that the first-order autocorrelation of the mispricing series was 0.93 , indicating that mispricings tended to persist over periods of the order of a few hours . |