Example sentences of "[vb pp] over [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clive Allen missed one great chance six minutes before half-time when his snap shot from inside the box , following a superb pass by Julian Dicks , was brilliantly tipped over by Bees ' keeper Graham Benstead . |
| 2 | The local rubbish-tip near the roadside is constantly picked over by gulls , starlings , crows and ravens . |
| 3 | With Ingres Corp and Informix Software Inc already won over to CAFS Content-Addressable File Store-based database Search Accelerator hardware , ICL says that Oracle Systems Corp has now signed to implement a version of its database for the system , while Sybase Inc is waiting in the wings to follow suit . |
| 4 | The prestige audience would be won over by movies that could take their place alongside the middle-class novel and play . |
| 5 | Anger welled up in Juliet , and boiled over into words she never meant to say . |
| 6 | His whole soul had been so given over to dreams of leaving Loxford recently that he was startled to think his father might share them . |
| 7 | Large portions of the Education Bill are given over to procedures for the creation and financing of grant maintained schools , a cornerstone of government policy . |
| 8 | He also remembered with a sense of humiliation and disgust that the pages of the Informer were now given over to articles on gay rights , the ‘ politics of feminism ’ and peer pressure towards glue-sniffing in the inner cities . |
| 9 | The rest of the time was devoted to history or geography , but always there would be two afternoons given over to handicrafts , particularly knitting and sewing . |
| 10 | Many settlements withered during the late Middle Ages but did not die until the Elizabethan or Stuart era when a local lord decided that corn production was no longer economical and that the arable land must be given over to cattle and sheep pastures . |
| 11 | Some of the programme on Saturday , November 28th has been given over to residents of several old people 's homes and approximately £500 worth of tickets for the 2.00pm service have been donated to the residents . |
| 12 | In the towns , markets contain whole sections given over to stalls with a vast variety of herbs and roots for every conceivable ailment from toothache to tuberculosis . |
| 13 | According to the Chinese Ministry of Forestry , there has been an increase in the land given over to trees in recent years . |
| 14 | East of the Fosse in Townsend Close , the buildings apparently also went out of use , with their associated plots given over to burials , which again followed the earlier layouts and rarely contained any grave goods ; observation of roadworks between Townsend Close and Heave Acre revealed yet more similar burials . |
| 15 | The old city was abandoned a second time , given over to romantics , theorists , transients and dogs . |
| 16 | When a national newspaper first published Mrs Travers ' views , the response was so great that a whole page had to be given over to readers ' letters . |
| 17 | In winter it is given over to turnstones , purple sandpiper , oystercatchers and other shellfish-eating birds . |
| 18 | A few have been turned over to groups in Arkansas , Florida and Texas . |
| 19 | On his surrender Noriega was transported by helicopter to the nearby Howard Air Force Base in Panama , and there he was turned over to representatives of the US Drug Enforcement Agency . |
| 20 | Most of it has n't been turned over for years . |
| 21 | been turned over by warlords , they want to get their own back . |
| 22 | That Kellynch Hall must be let , ‘ a beloved home made over to others ’ , is deeply felt ; but , within a few weeks of the Crofts ' arrival as tenants , Anne ‘ could not but in conscience feel that they were gone who deserved not to stay , and that Kellynch-hall had passed into better hands than its owners . ’ |
| 23 | You know , the freeholds were made over by deeds of gift by way of conveyance , and the — ’ |
| 24 | More long service awards were handed over to committeemen George Henderson and Fred Edney at Evenwood WMC . |
| 25 | LIFECARD NETWORK TO BE HANDED OVER TO EDS |
| 26 | He can regard his task as done when he has arrived at entities so simple that they can safely be handed over to physicists . |
| 27 | If inspection is handed over to companies such as Coopers and Lybrand — to consultants — there will be no corps of people at local level to produce the necessary data . |
| 28 | The following day , 22 May , at 1259 hrs AFHQ replied IHP 218 ] with copy to 5 Corps : " All who are Soviet citizens and who can be handed over to Russians without use of force should be returned direct by Eighth Army . |
| 29 | Gerrett reported to 15 Army Group : " 5 Corps confirm that approx 42,000 Cossacks to be handed over to Russians are Soviet citizens within the definition of cited AFHQ letter . |
| 30 | At 2130 hrs that evening , 25 May , Eighth Army signalled [ KP 251 ] to AFHQ , with copies to 15 Army Group and 5 Corps " Ruling now received 15 Army Gp all Soviet citizens … will be treated as surrendered personnel and will therefore be handed over to Russians . |