Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next section between Culver Street and Gigant Street and Guilder Lane and Pennyfarthing Street could have seen little change over a long period . |
| 2 | The partnership was successfully liquidated over a period of years and it was left to John Baring to rebuild the business in the form of a limited company . |
| 3 | Put in pan and slowly melt over a low heat , but do not boil . |
| 4 | Place in a bowl with the milk and gently heat over a pan of simmering water , stirring occasionally until melted and almost smooth . |
| 5 | Since the acquisition of premises ( other than where the entrepreneur purchases the premises as a going concern and merely takes over an existing catering enterprise ) normally involves at least a change of use and often the development of the premises , planning permission is required . |
| 6 | Partly because the species are not marketable , partly because trees are only taken over a certain size , erm and so on . |
| 7 | ( vi ) Make preparations by dropping suspension from a Pasteur pipette on clean pre-cooled slides and gently dry over a low gas flame . |
| 8 | Each truck has to carry 26 of them , together weighing over a ton . |
| 9 | Men who think with pride of themselves as gourmets , relish rare vintages and affectedly enthuse over a Romani Conti or other costly wine . |
| 10 | When she finally turned over a page and saw his name , it seemed oddly unreal . |
| 11 | An advertising agency normally takes over a client 's advertising for a fee , or for a percentage of the amount of money the client spends on television time or space in newspapers , magazines or poster sites . |
| 12 | He is also quite charming , with an attractive dry sense of humour , as I soon discovered over a beautifully prepared meal at his spacious London home . |
| 13 | She was looking exhilarated herself , sitting up in bed with a welter of papers before her , her pen laboriously scratching over a sheet of parchment . |
| 14 | Infanticide by males which have just taken over a harem is probably common in nature in many species : it has been observed several times in the Hanuman langur ( Presbytis entellus , a species of primate ) and has been anecdotally recorded in many other mammals . |
| 15 | This source observes that although demilitarisation generally extends over a limited zone with the goal of separating potentially hostile parties it may also cover regions and even continents , such as the Åland and Spitzbergen archipelagos and Antarctica . |
| 16 | They have even been known to raid the picnic basket if I am overly engrossed over a little ‘ hot spot ’ I have found . |
| 17 | A GIRL on an evening out died in a freak accident by just tripping over a kerb . |
| 18 | She just sat over a leisurely breakfast and planned her day , and never looked back after that . |
| 19 | However , so long as we remain in the Community , Parliament has effectively handed over a number of functions that it has traditionally fulfilled . |
| 20 | He conducted research into how artefacts gradually develop over a period of time , the study of which is known as typology . |
| 21 | It is probably fair that venture capitalists have more say over a company 's affairs than a conventional bank lender with the comfort of a secured arrangement . |
| 22 | A DAREDEVIL parachutist appeared in court yesterday charged over a leap INSIDE St Paul 's Cathedral and another off Tower Bridge . |
| 23 | COMMANDER Fabian Malbon , skipper of HMS Invincible , yesterday handed over a cheque for £1,250 to cancer victim Janet Murray , right , at a Kent nursing home . |
| 24 | A baker who has n't had a day off sick in three quarters of a century is still slaving over a hot stove at the age of ( 87 ) eighty-seven . |
| 25 | Instead , kids compare the stats on dogs like Scion , whose total seizure value to date is over $91 million , or Sinbad , who once turned over a camper van on the Mexican border and sniffed out 400 pounds of cocaine . |
| 26 | Sudirman promptly handed over a vast cache to the city pemuda . |
| 27 | Running for the first time for his new trainer , Mighty Mogul easily brushed aside Kaytak over an extended two miles at Newbury last month . |
| 28 | He saw her shoulders shift , and she unconsciously raised a hand to undo the buttons of the bodice of the dark pelisse she still wore over an equally dark gown , the top of which was now revealed , made high to the throat . |
| 29 | For the second day running , up to 30 commuters yesterday took over a carriage on an early-morning service from Colchester to Liverpool Street and put up posters declaring it a smoking zone . |
| 30 | England began their tour in miserable fashion , handing Windward Islands their first ever win over a touring team . |