Example sentences of "[vb pp] over [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had smiled at the frontier guards and kept walking with his rucksack slung over one shoulder … until the hand had clamped on his collar , and the boots had pitched him into a cell . |
| 2 | He signalled to Yuan , and with the change in gravity he was at the entrance with his belt slung over one shoulder before Alexei started to cross the floor . |
| 3 | According to Eric Partridge 's Dictionary of Catch Phrases , the phrase ‘ over the left shoulder ! ’ negates ‘ one 's own or another 's statement and indicates derisive disbelief , the thumb being sometimes pointed over that shoulder … |
| 4 | Skipper Adams was equally guarded , but said : ‘ We 're playing good football and we have n't been turned over this season . |
| 5 | With its RISC strategy taken care of by HP , Sequoia has also handed over future development of its Motorola Inc family to Samsung Electronics Co , this time in exchange for the Korean marketplace , which Sequoia will stay out of . |
| 6 | ‘ The immediate effects of the theft were considerably lessened both by the death of Laura Stratton and on the very next day by the murder of Dr Kemp , the man to whom the Tongue was due to be handed over that day at an official little ceremony at the Ashmolean . |
| 7 | We have handed over that power . |
| 8 | Aside from Boyce and Lee , these include Edward Howard , a CIA employee who finally defected to Moscow taking with him a hoard of secret information about his work ; the Walker trio who for 17 years handed over details of US Navy cryptograhic equipment to the Russians in exchange for $750,000 ; Bruce Ott , a USAF airman who tried to sell the Russians a copy of the SR-71 spy plane operating manual ; Robert Miller , an FBI agent who passed on secret documents to the Russians ; Ronald Pelton , a communications expert with the NSA who for five years gave the Russians details of his work ; Clyde Conrad , a retired US Army sergeant who for five years is alleged to have handed over top army contingency plans to the East ; and Jonathan Pollard , a US Navy counter-intelligence analyst who was paid $50,000 by Israeli intelligence for top naval information , a particularly embarrassing incident . |
| 9 | More than £1.2 billion was handed over last year , although the amount is due to decline until 1998 when the levy will be discontinued . |
| 10 | Others pointed to the inevitable and embarrassing shadow the embassy occupation would have cast over next weekend 's celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the founding of East Germany . |
| 11 | Because we 'd worked over that seam of conversation at infrequent intervals , in exactly the same order . |
| 12 | An earlier report , Citizens of Tomorrow ( 1955 ) produced by the King George 's Jubilee Trust , had worked over this theme of ‘ too much pocket-money and too little discipline ’ . |
| 13 | Throughout November and December a few big cod can be taken over low water from the end of the sandbar on night tides . |
| 14 | President Zviad Gamsakhurdia announced on Nov. 7 and 12 that Georgia had taken over all equipment and facilities belonging to Soviet Interior Ministry troops and the Soviet army stationed on the republic 's territory . |
| 15 | The Duma defied the Tsar , who suspended them , and formed a government , which they declared to have taken over all power in Russia . |
| 16 | There is some justice in the way Macedon , who had thanklessly insulated Greek culture from these destructive outsiders and nomads for so long , should finally , in the persons of Philip and Alexander , have taken over that culture by diplomacy and conquest . |
| 17 | The great office blocks of the 1890s had taken over that role , and the office-block stations had made some attempt to match them . |
| 18 | The modern DNA machinery , according to this view , is a late-comer , a recent usurper of the role of fundamental replicator , having taken over that role from an earlier and cruder replicator . |
| 19 | Commercial forestry operations have taken over many coppice woodlands and planted conifers extensively . |
| 20 | They were much less likely to say there were laws or regulations protecting people who take out credit agreements , and much more likely not to know whether any action could be taken over some credit agreement which they had signed but later felt was unfair . |
| 21 | One particular factor to be taken into account is the country in which incorporation is deemed to have taken place ; the criteria for this will vary from state to state , so care must be taken over this issue . |
| 22 | He had recently taken over this region , which had previously been subject to the Ptolemies in Egypt . |
| 23 | A recommended course for beginners is the RYA Competent Crew Certificate , which can be taken over three sailing weekends ( £110 per weekend ) or a full five-day course ( £215 ) . |
| 24 | The Federal Cartel Office had on April 20 , 1989 , objected to the proposed takeover on the grounds that it would lead to market domination in the arms , aerospace and truck industries by Daimler-Benz , which in recent years had taken over another aerospace company , Dornier , the electrical concern AEG and the engineering company MTU . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , Tory backbenchers voiced their concern that speedy action should be taken over juvenile crime when about 25 MPs met Mr Clarke for more than an hour at a private meeting at the Commons . |
| 26 | In Normandy , that part of France which he had made peculiarly his , he had taken over everyday government , now exercised in his name by men appointed by him . |