Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luqa airfield in September 1940 , shortly after 261 Squadron took over the Hal Far Fighter Flight . |
| 2 | There was no royalty , no civic dignitaries being honoured as the 2 Buccaneers flew over at just 250 feet . |
| 3 | Nov 23 1985 Debate rages over whether this notorious period was an intellectual renaissance or indulgo-dilettante ego-tossery . |
| 4 | I 've still got 300 sets left over from that job lot I got the other Christmas . |
| 5 | On his return from China on Dec. 30 Herzog stopped over in Kazakhstan when he met with that country 's President , Nursultan Nazarbayev . |
| 6 | After 1788 Baldwin took over the development of the Bathwick estate , a project conceived on the most ambitious scale . |
| 7 | On Gelon 's death in 478 Hiero took over Syracuse , and another brother called Polyzalus married Gelo 's widow Damareta , who was a daughter of Theron the tyrant of Akragas , cp. above . |
| 8 | When rival gangs began fighting for black market spoils , the ethnic war which has engulfed Sarajevo and Bosnia for 10 months spilled over into Stup . |
| 9 | This could lead to a drop in temperature of between 5 and 10 degrees centigrade over the region , with the curtailment of the spring growing season and consequent losses of food production . |
| 10 | At other times in the past , temperatures appear to have fluctuated by as much as 10 degrees centigrade over a couple of decades . |
| 11 | On Aug. 19 he made a dramatic call for resistance , standing on one of the tanks stationed outside the Supreme Soviet building ( 10 tanks went over to Yeltsin on the night of Aug. 19 — see below ; the commander of tanks stationed outside the Russian Supreme Soviet building was reported as saying that he would not order an attack on Yeltsin . ) |
| 12 | Confidence is soaring at Portman Road after the 2-0 derby win over leaders Norwich on Monday allowed Ipswich to leapfrog Arsenal and move within seven points of the Canaries . |
| 13 | Woodvale eased their relegation fears with a thumping 10 wickets win over Instonians , but Lurgan lost by 15 runs to Downpatrick . |
| 14 | In 1837 Gooch was appointed joint principal engineer with George Stephenson and was responsible for the line 's construction , which was his greatest achievement and required many heavy civil-engineering works , including a two-mile tunnel under the Pennine hills , the boring of which from thirteen shafts took over three years . |
| 15 | Manager Tommy Gilmour will fly to Puerto Rico in three weeks to try and bring the Camacho fight to Glasgow in January , giving Weir almost three months to get over his first ever cut in one hundred and sixty seven fights as both amateur and professional . |
| 16 | Or nearly nothing : where before you could book for lunch by telephone in a minute or two , this time it took half a dozen tries spread over a day and a bit , and I finally had to strike higher up . |
| 17 | All three youths ran over . |
| 18 | The three piggies went over to investigate . |
| 19 | The girls had a comfortable three length win over University College , Galway . |
| 20 | In front of the railway station , a second police car ( summoned by a confident Morse as Lewis had driven him from North Oxford ) was now waiting , and the Chief Inspector nodded a perfunctory greeting to the two detective-constables who sat side by side in the front seats as they watched , and awaited , developments ; watched the three men walk over to the twenty-minute waiting-area set aside for those meeting passengers from British Rail journeys — an area where parking cost nothing at all ; watched them as they passed through that area and walked into the main car-park , with the bold notice affording innocent trespassers the clearest warning : |
| 21 | In spite of their weariness and thirst they declined to drink the water which the Europeans had been using and which was stored in half a dozen hip-baths brought over from the Residency a week earlier ( only one of which still contained any water ) . |
| 22 | In the sunlight they glowed an iridescent purple , green and turquoise — a thousand eyes gazing over his shoulders . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Innsite Hotel Services , for example , recommends , for its Innfront front office system , an on-site training package of 11 days spread over a period . |
| 25 | It might be something of a race , then , once the Scots were in sight and it was perceived that they were going to cross , with ten thousand horsemen to get over . |
| 26 | With 24 teams competing in 52 matches staged over more that four weeks , this year 's World Cup competition in Italy will be the largest and longest since the tournament began in 1930 . |
| 27 | Every county in the Central South Region has seen more than four thousand jobs disappear over the past year . |
| 28 | At the beginning of the nineteenth century we find Lord Eldon sometimes keeping a case for ten years to think over , and not delivering judgement till perhaps most of the parties were dead and most of the property had gone in costs . |
| 29 | About 20 trainees may be brought together for about ten days spread over a few months , interspersed with more in-bureau case study exercises and observation . |
| 30 | THE Liverpool Competition cruised to a ten wicket win over the Merseyside Competition in the first round of the President 's Trophy at Northern yesterday . |