Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [vb base] over " in BNC.

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1 Your best setting for demonstrating the art of negotiation is the one in which you and your son or daughter disagree over some issue .
2 City and Ministry differ over decorative arts museum for Rome
3 A week later , back home in London , John 's father and sister come over to visit .
4 When the pain becomes intolerable , the numbness and disbelief take over again to protect us .
5 He was a writer of the fidgety , costive kind whose works are long in the planning , and meticulous in the execution — only at the very end of a project , when the scaffolding , the foundations , the walls and roof and even the plaster were laid down , did spontaneity and delight take over , in the actual play of , play with , words themselves .
6 Together Sinton and Hero take over the Limelight every Thursday and offer a platform to new bands .
7 In the summer , athletics , cricket and tennis take over from the winter sports .
8 ‘ As a matter of fact , ’ said Ruby confidentially but loud enough to make Rosie and Holly keel over to hear .
9 The important technique , which keeps you going as an automaton until interest and desire take over , and concentration sharpens to a fine point , is that of having a rigorous time-table of study laid down in advance .
10 After dinner , the hotel cabaret and band take over the easy task of keeping you happy .
11 Perhaps Lucy would have melted weakly into his bony arms had not an expression of dismay and incredulity come over his face .
12 Of particular concern in the research will be implications for the way wages and employment respond over business cycle and the implications for the wage and promotion profiles of employees as they age and approach retirement .
13 Geraniums , sea thrift and bedding spill over the edge .
14 Quakers , evangelicals inside and outside the Church of England and Rational Dissenters and Unitarians all articulated a powerful abolitionist and emancipationist appeal over more than half a century .
15 Some of the personalities themselves have provided unhappy proof of what can happen when stress and temptation take over where the much-publicised diet leaves off , while the thousands — sometimes millions — who bought their books have come to realise that the Hollywood way to fitness is a career in itself , a course in self-absorption and physical management that only those who are paid to pursue it can afford , either in terms of time or money .
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