Example sentences of "[vb pp] over in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | M. Dupont had not once looked over in Mr Lewis 's direction during the course of this speech , and indeed , once the company had toasted his lordship and were seated again , all those present seemed to be studiously avoiding looking towards the American gentleman . |
| 2 | They would instantly begin questioning the way the world had been running since their enforced absence , and they would not approve ; whereas those who lay softly beneath the blowing grasses , the quiet slate , had long since turned over in rest and when they woke would wake like children and smile at the sky . |
| 3 | But since the replicase is just a protein molecule like any other , the versatile protein-building machines of the bacterial cell can easily turn to building them , just as the machine tools in a car factory can quickly be turned over in time of war to making munitions : all they need is to be fed the right blueprints . |
| 4 | Cricket now , and while England are getting ready to meet Pakistan in the final of the World Cup , there 's another piece of sporting history being made over in South Africa.Worcestershire 's players are preparing for the first of a five match series there , to help the country back from years of sporting isolation . |
| 5 | You know , and even in erm , Japan , they 're importing the , the products that are made , made over in Derby . |
| 6 | When someone has been asked to make over on death whatever remains of an inheritance , and from the price of objects sold buys other objects , he is not regarded as having diminished [ the estate ] in respect of the objects sold … but the objects thus bought should be made over in place of the ownership which has changed … . |
| 7 | THE shipping minister , Lord Caithness , yesterday dismissed calls for a sheriff 's inquiry into the Braer oilspill in spite of a petition signed by more than a third of Shetland 's adults being handed over in London . |
| 8 | A petition signed by 1,000,000 Argentinians was also handed over in October to the then Interior Minister , Eduardo Bauzá , demanding that soldiers should face punishment for their crimes . |
| 9 | They admit arranging for 5,000 dollars to be handed over in envelopes but say they were merely responding to UEFA instructions to cover the officials ' expenses . |
| 10 | Jacqueline Hopps , 30 , of Parkside , Andrea Michelle Kindred , 19 , of Martindale Road , Michelle Ann Wood , 23 , of Leafield Road , were bound over in £100 for fighting outside Brannegans bar . |
| 11 | My parents had stayed over in Middlesbrough that night and they were taking me home the next day . |
| 12 | I rue the day these wretched Titfords ever came to live down here — could n't they have stayed over in Wilmington Square ? |
| 13 | The outer side of the algal ridge is often interrupted by a system of spurs and grooves , the latter running back through the ridge as a series of surge channels , which may even become roofed over in places by the development of Porolithon from their sides . |
| 14 | Except that women were deferential to other speakers they would let they would they were they would allow themselves to be walked over in conversation but at the same time you had this stereotype of women who talked too much . |
| 15 | My half-cousin Norman Bayles was hired over in Ravenstonedale and he liked it there . |
| 16 | The theory is put over in lectures thus giving pupils a foretaste of ‘ university-style ’ teaching . |
| 17 | I was aware that austerity had taken over in England and that a lot of things were shoddy , but I desperately wished my wife had something better to wear . |
| 18 | Both Torquil and Vic were taken over in pace during the day by the aerodrome itself . |
| 19 | Early on June 30 a small group of Army officers led by Lt. Mwamba Luchembe succeeded in broadcasting at regular intervals over 90 minutes a message on national radio saying that the Army had taken over in response to the food price rises . |
| 20 | It is true that certain measures of nationalisation had been undertaken in the first months of Soviet government — for example , the Merchant Marine had been taken over in January 1918 and the sugar industry nationalised in May of that year — but the main efforts had been directed towards a stabilisation and regularisation of the tottering economy on the existing basis of ownership . |
| 21 | The Royal School for Deaf Children , Margate evacuated to Oxfordshire where three large houses were taken over in Goring-on-Thames and the school was able to carry on in a ‘ make-do ’ fashion . |
| 22 | Nearer to their hotel , Fred did an improvisation about the home life of an air hostess who was taken over in bed by her working phrases and asked her husband if he would care to recline and have a beverage . |
| 23 | If we 'd upset his applecart in busting out the hostages , then the radical fundamentalists might easily have taken over in Syria and given us a much worse problem . |
| 24 | The Dunbars have shown that whereas harems taken over in combat only last an average of three and a half years , those established by way of two-male team formation last eight and a half . |
| 25 | Removal of the food decreases anxiety in both the mother and child initially and so is reinforcing , but later when the mother realizes that there is a problem the anxiety never resolves and the child is fussed over in order to encourage eating . |
| 26 | Storehouse said Simons was due to be passed over in favour of BhS finance director Graham Rider next year . |
| 27 | Female graduates facing ever-increasing competition were often passed over in favour of their male classmates even when they possessed better qualifications . |
| 28 | Gender relations themselves can get passed over in favour of a purely psychological idea of femininity ; this generates the conflation between humanism and woman-centredness in Miller 's and Gilligan 's work . |
| 29 | Newer materials , such as acrylics , which are being used by an increasing number of artists , are virtually passed over in favour of longer selection on preparing gesso . |
| 30 | Iago 's first stated reason for hating his master is that he has been passed over in favour of ‘ a great arithmetician ’ , a ‘ counter-caster ’ , Michael Cassio ( Othello , I.i.19–31 ) . |