Example sentences of "[vb pp] over for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the high side there was a grey Buick that I had seen Harvey driving and a long black Lincoln Continental that looked like the President of the United States had come over for pizza and beer . |
| 2 | Even when Liz had come over for Mr Harding 's funeral , which had taken place just over a year ago , Laura had n't felt able to explain all of the difficulties she had faced . |
| 3 | And they must of come over for Christmas dinner . |
| 4 | However you organise your checking routine , it is crucial to present written work which has been checked over for spelling . |
| 5 | Most of it has n't been turned over for years . |
| 6 | I had the kitchen made over for Joan . |
| 7 | Mr Tristan Garel-Jones , Foreign Office Minister , will join his French counterpart , M Roland Dumas , in insisting that the two Lockerbie suspects be handed over for trial in the West . |
| 8 | Russian workers from Uzbekistan pour concrete and fit window frames but eight months after the earthquake , not one was ready to be handed over for use . |
| 9 | On Jan. 16 the round table talks immediately ran into problems when the UDF representatives accused the BCP of reneging on promises made during the preliminary discussions that the opposition would be allowed its own newspaper and access to state television and radio , and that a building would be handed over for use as a UDF headquarters . |
| 10 | When working by hand , it is only necessary to record those values that change upon iteration ; in this text the values that change are denoted by bold print , but the other numbers are copied over for clarity . |
| 11 | After the concert , guests went into the garden which had been completely tented over for supper . |
| 12 | And er course we went about three weeks before that then we got invited over for tea . |
| 13 | John Jeffrey had charged over for Kelso 's try with Graeme Aitchison converting and adding a penalty . |
| 14 | ‘ But I thought we did n't have a lot of cash left over for publicity ? ’ |
| 15 | Life , as John recalls it , was happy if hard , with not much time left over for fun after the daily toil was complete and certainly nothing to spare for luxuries . |
| 16 | It was a decent wage , an easy job , plenty of energy left over for rugby , for girls , for the play-acting in which he was becoming interested . |
| 17 | ‘ There was no money left over for niceties such as professional decorators . ’ |
| 18 | The muted stripes can be worked with any quantity of yarn making up the total , just add in the colours where you will , provided you have enough left over for borders . |
| 19 | These foreigners are so greedy there 's never anything left over for supper . |
| 20 | Opposition has been muted and sporadic except from the farmers who have successfully extracted high levels of compensation for land taken over for Tunnel purposes . |
| 21 | Whenever any area is taken over for construction purposes , an improved replacement is made elsewhere . |
| 22 | Medicine and money from the public health budget are being unofficially transferred to the military health services and at least five regional hospitals and a number of smaller health centres have been taken over for use by the military . |
| 23 | He has not just found a role for himself , which was something he had agonized over for years , but has used his position to lead an assault on the ills of modern society ; to try to alter people 's basic thinking , not just in an effort to improve their lives , but to persuade them of the need to preserve the planet for future generations . |
| 24 | Richart , who plotted to assassinate the king in a brothel , was a liberal army paymaster who was passed over for absorption into the civil service — the only career for superfluous officers . |
| 25 | The rebel officers had been passed over for promotion as General Noriega strengthened his control of the military 's two key policy-making bodies , the General Staff and the Strategic Military Council . |
| 26 | Until the final scenes Bolam 's Macbeth is a placid , middle-management man who may reckon he has been unfairly passed over for promotion . |
| 27 | She had earlier launched a claim that sex discrimination by senior officers and the Home Office had led to her being passed over for promotion nine times . |
| 28 | Even in these supposedly progressive times , you might be passed over for promotion or unkindly treated because of your sex or racial origins . |
| 29 | A sea officer , however , who was without significant influence , was likely to find himself regularly passed over for promotion by friends of the owners being groomed for command . |
| 30 | A 23-YEAR-OLD customs man who drugged , bound and indecently assaulted his woman boss in a revenge attack after being passed over for promotion was jailed for seven years at the Old Bailey in London yesterday . |