Example sentences of "[to-vb] over [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No sir , my job was then to pass over to Mr who made the ultimate decision as to what to do about the incident . |
| 2 | This is the sort of CD that the ‘ ordinary ’ music-lover is likely to pass over in favour of something better known , on the assumption that ‘ German Harpsichord Music before Bach ’ would be of interest to the specialist only . |
| 3 | The consequence of this progressive decline in popularity has been not only a sustained attack on what are perceived as the inadequacies of communist ideology and the Soviet system itself in the 1980s ( and there is no more iconoclastic an exponent of this form of criticism than Nizan 's own grandson , Emmanuel Todd ) , but more specifically , a tendency to overplay the critically dissident aspects of Nizan 's life and work , and to pass over in silence the more constructive , orthodox communist slant of his writings . |
| 4 | He would have some time to slip over to London to act . |
| 5 | What could be more natural than for three members of Prince 's plus a girlfriend to wander over to St. George 's to see the closing stages of the Million Sterling Tournament ? |
| 6 | says , you know , told her to come over at night you know |
| 7 | Well I even say the originally , he was going to come over with Robert stuff |
| 8 | Lucy , um , I wondered if you 'd like to come over for dinner sometime , like tonight . |
| 9 | ‘ Do you want to come over for dinner sometime ? ’ said Jay , as if it had just occurred to her . |
| 10 | let's ask him if he wants to come over for dinner cos we do n't have dinner until half four anyway |
| 11 | has , his sister , er you ought to come over on Sunday er , I was surprised you said on Sunday cos we , well last Sunday we went and had a drink with them . |
| 12 | Meredith supposed Harriet would be fully committed socially over the Christmas period but she wanted to offer some token of hospitality , so she went across the road after breakfast and asked if Harriet would like to come over to lunch . |
| 13 | With this background of ‘ westernisation ’ it was considered natural to come over to England to complete my education . |
| 14 | I would also very much appreciate an opportunity to come over to Walford Manor , perhaps in August . |
| 15 | She showed immediate enthusiasm and , well , one thing led to another and before long I had invited her and her family to come over to Tintagel to meet Dawn and see her fly . |
| 16 | He even offered to come over in person to explain them . |
| 17 | Once in a while she allowed Gaston or Marius to drive over to Reine and take her back to one or other of their houses for Sunday lunch . |
| 18 | ‘ Then I 'll have to drive over to Ballater 's on the other road . ’ |
| 19 | I have to drive over to Mayerling and see someone . ’ |
| 20 | Nevertheless I arranged to drive over to Strondonald the following Saturday afternoon and join him for tea . |
| 21 | After spending a day settling in to their hotel rooms and enjoying a display by the Orange County Police Department , the children began to bubble over with excitement at the thought of visiting Disney 's Magic Kingdom . |
| 22 | CERN , for instance , is ready to swing over to NT and abandon its Unix boxes because the administration side there is awash with incompatible PCs and Macs and if the techies give up their Unix stations then everybody will be on the same system . |
| 23 | What is important is that I was so surprised by my opponent 's failure to fall over in agony that I was unable to stop him attacking me . |
| 24 | And all these Russian scientists with , you know , sending up these rockets in the air , they 're going to go over to Iraq . |
| 25 | ‘ In fact , Ursula and I accepted his invitation to go over to Macau with him and Cavell Fielding on Tuesday evening for dinner and a spot of gambling in one of the casinos , and a very enjoyable few hours they were too . ’ |
| 26 | You 'd be mad not to go over to Paris and settle it . |
| 27 | " Do you want to go over to Moorlake now ? " |
| 28 | No , I 've had , no I 've go , I had to go over to shit ! |
| 29 | No hoping to go over to Ireland for a week but not |
| 30 | Although it would be nice to go over to Bradford . |