Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I cut off the path proper and charged up over a dune and down its other side to where the service pipe carrying the water and electricity to the house appears out of the sand and crosses the creek . |
| 2 | To succeed , they have to be able to draw on their full resources , built up over a lifetime . |
| 3 | Manufacturing productivity rose by over a half between 1981 and 1991 . |
| 4 | Stamping their hopelessly outsize boots , they trudged in single file out of the gutted , white-stone church and slogged off over a ditch away from the barricade . |
| 5 | The cyke came up over a dune , and Mostyn and Cheadle caught it in a crossfire . |
| 6 | But , with a research department reduced by over a half and with the strategic use of a cash cow , the nylon business produced innovation after innovation . |
| 7 | There are still a quarter of a million unemployed people in Scotland who are testimony to the dreadful human misery caused by over a decade of Tory rule and the terminal decline of the UK economy , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Bank overdraft Flexible borrowing up to a certain ceiling for people with bank accounts , usually without security , and paid off over a few months , but can be extended over several years ; interest , calculated each day on how much the account is overdrawn that day , fluctuates in line with bank base rates ( usually about two per cent higher ) . |
| 9 | Ramblers were often trained as weeping standards , with their stems tied to a vertical pole and then fanned out over a series of hoops to cascade down to the ground . |
| 10 | Whilst the signaller busied himself with decoding the latest message from on high , the Troop Commander 's mind raced back over a fairly hectic three weeks , Which had taken the troop from Hameln ( of Pied Piper fame ) , the regiment 's home base on the River Weser , eastwards to the River Leine and north the River Aller , before swinging north-west to the mouth of the Weser in the Bremerhaven area . |
| 11 | Tomorrow night we 'll show exclusive pictures of the MG RV8 on the road and ask why Rover is to bring back the car it killed off over a decade ago . |
| 12 | A branch of one tree hung out over a pond ending in a spray of twigs resting on the water . |
| 13 | We broke up over a personal misunderstanding . |
| 14 | Secret talks with the government , which went on over a period of more than a year , were also broken off . |
| 15 | They went on over a long period and affected many children who had been entrusted to the defendants for care and help . |
| 16 | The arrival of Islam and the Arabic language was to mark another of the great turning points in the history of Egypt , and their absorption by Egyptian society went on over a long period , being generally a peaceful and incremental process . |
| 17 | The seasons , if they are important enough , can grab people 's attention in the way that you would n't if the programmes just went out over a period of 16 or 20 weeks . |
| 18 | The trouble which a political interest could encounter , however , came when friends of the political interest fell out over a choice of minister , and in a country which took its religion seriously that was all too easy to do , and that in turn opened the road to intrigue by political enemies . |
| 19 | And er we fell out over a fall really or whatever it was . |
| 20 | At the front , two high curved windows gave a view of the square garden while at the rear one huge expanse of glass looked out over a stone wall with three niches , each containing a marble statue ; Venus , naked , one hand delicately shielding the mons Veneris , one pointing at her left nipple , a second female figure , half robed and wearing a wreath of flowers and , between them , Apollo with his lyre , laurel-crowned . |
| 21 | We looked out over a bare open landscape , its thin grass patched with sandy stretches . |
| 22 | It looked out over a garden so long overgrown it was returning to jungle . |
| 23 | The remains of an open-caste mine , shut down over a decade earlier , lay to the west . |
| 24 | a crazy pie in the sky idea dreamt up over a few beers finally became a reality today and a new world record . |
| 25 | At the back there is a horizontal belt sleeve which allows it to be attached to a belt up to 70mm wide and there is also a vertical sleeve 50mm wide which permits it to be worn on its side or slid down over a vertical post for use as a permanent fixture at a centre or clubhouse . |
| 26 | Visual illusions are an excellent illustration , in fact , of the division between a specialized and autonomous mechanism for seeing and the cognitive system which determines whether we should believe what we see , as Helmholtz pointed out over a century ago . |
| 27 | Certainly Mike had all the time in the world to launch a right hook , but Patsy also must have had all the time in the world to see it , for he simply swayed back on his heels and the punch missed by over a foot . |