Example sentences of "[vb base] over [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wooden tumblers , swinging — allez oop ! — head over heels on wooden frames . |
| 2 | I was madly — and that 's the operative word — head over heels in lust . |
| 3 | This goes to show that alliances formed in the conflict over recreation and access to the countryside are by no means the same as those which coalesce over issues of wildlife preservation and landscape change . |
| 4 | Feta cheese has a storage life of two months ; crumble over salads for an instant Mediterranean flavour . |
| 5 | Use the brush to soften the outline , then pencil over lips before applying lipstick . |
| 6 | CONCERNS GROW OVER PROSPECTS FOR PEACE DIVIDEND VICTIM BOLT BERANEK & NEWMAN |
| 7 | Why do you pick up the evening paper and linger over tales of local gossip or distress when you have important tasks to carry out ? |
| 8 | Review over findings of fact has also increased as the judiciary have increased their control over open-textured and subjective conditions of jurisdiction . |
| 9 | The unspecialized hummingbirds range over herbs to trees , which produce many nowers with little nectar to attract pollinators . |
| 10 | General browsing is associated with public library users " who look over books in order to decide which to borrow or read . " |
| 11 | DARLINGTON MP Michael Fallon is to contact the Roads Minister over plans for a traffic calming scheme in the town . |
| 12 | Lions may learn to jump through hoops or sea lions to clap their flippers while balancing a ball on their noses , but lions jump over obstacles in their home territory or laze around under a favourite tree , while sea lions are naturally dexterous , chasing fish with great skill . |
| 13 | THE UN Security Council voted unanimously last night to send a peacekeeping force to Central America to cut off infiltration by contra rebels , monitor elections in Nicaragua and watch over developments in other sensitive areas — especially Honduras and El Salvador . |
| 14 | With budgets of around £50,000 , the preference was for gentle tales with a non-urban setting such as The Brave Do n't Cry ( 1952 ) , about a Scottish mining disaster ; Conflict of Wings ( 1953 , Fuss Over Feathers in US ) , in which East Anglian villagers fight for the cause of bird sanctuaries against the needs of the RAF ; Judgement Deferred ( 1951 ) and Brandy for the Parson ( 1951 ) , both of which are smuggling stories . |
| 15 | Most travellers consider them irritatingly slow over distances of more than 150 metres . |
| 16 | Such interpretations pass over differences in primary social organization and ecology , and ignore the effects of particular environments like zoos and experimental laboratories . |
| 17 | These included : the power to intervene in labour federations and unions ; control over candidates in union elections ; provisions governing the legality of strikes and unions ; legal distinctions between white- and blue-collar workers which have the effect of dividing workers ; and the prohibition of certain groups ( often government employees ) to form unions . |
| 18 | If there is an intrinsic conflict between capital and labour leading management to seek out means of exercising tight control over workers through fragmenting and de-skilling jobs , then this will have implications for the way in which whole enterprises are organised . |
| 19 | I should be able to consider seriously the idea of escape , and talk over problems of disguise and frontier crossings with other people for whom the war was not yet over . |
| 20 | On wheels that clatter over miles of steel |
| 21 | 12 Plan and go over lessons in your mind beforehand . |
| 22 | Disquiet over deaths in police cells , to take one further example , is another area in which anthropology seems well placed to make some comment . |
| 23 | His mount put in a series of sticky jumps and could never get to grips with Twin Oaks , who made all and came home clear for his eighth win over fences at the Lancashire course . |
| 24 | Hume and Trimble clash over talks with Sinn Fein |
| 25 | They do need an acid leafy soil , but they score over rhododendrons through being much more tolerant of dry summers , as the past three seasons have demonstrated . |
| 26 | ANGER OVER PLANS FOR ‘ CUILLIN CAFE ’ |
| 27 | Anger over curbs on inspections |
| 28 | It 's estimated we each eat over 100lbs of sugar a year — that 's not-so-sweet calories ! |
| 29 | Then one , two hours hard travelling — avoiding languorous Nordic motorists lulled into somnambulance by the gentle , cradling motion of their Volvos , and the squalls that hover over stretches of road , waiting to burst heavy clouds of rain on passing travellers — and then the moose . |
| 30 | Future pension rates will be at the mercy of employers who take over subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group . |