Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The early Vikings believed that the rainbow was a bridge for the gods to walk over when they wanted to visit the earth . |
| 2 | When sport fails to deal adequately with the excesses of its performers , it is right and proper for the courts to take over . |
| 3 | My Service wanted me to try and penetrate it , just on general grounds , but I told them : the whole point is not to have their names on our files , all ready for the Soviets to take over . |
| 4 | Statistics out this week for the economists to chew over include November 's balance of payment figures . |
| 5 | Then I forgot about it as the carrots boiled over . |
| 6 | Graham , the doubter who would not vote for the local Conservative MP , had even expressed indifference about the Russians taking over South Africa . |
| 7 | ‘ Is it meaner than a place so foul that you ca n't bear to touch your own skin except to brush off the things crawling over you ? ’ |
| 8 | Many of the projects taken over on nationalisation were , moreover , either wholly or partly in the hands of civil and electrical engineering consultants , whom the BEA assured of continuing support for the foreseeable future . |
| 9 | On a typical sage grouse lek , just 10 per cent of the males get over 75 per cent of all matings . |
| 10 | Therefore , any remaining lead of the futures price over the spot price is due to either new information being reflected first in the futures market ( price discovery ) , or to recording and reporting lags for the index . |
| 11 | Every now and then clouds of steam from the cooling reservoirs of the furnaces float over the skyline , It is an Icelandic scene of snow and hot-springs , of glacier , rock , cliffs , sky , and seabirds . |
| 12 | One of the youths walked over to the group , looked at the black girl and said , ‘ By the way , you are a nigger too . ’ |
| 13 | But though the machinery of government is developing in this direction , there is insufficient willingness to face the facts , to give up some of the pretences left over from the old period of vigorous , participatory democracy in order to remove the anomalies and rationalize the system . |
| 14 | He slammed his hand down on the top of the dressing table , causing some of the bottles to topple over . |
| 15 | Ballater saw one of the farm-hands going over to the shippon and told him to fetch Craddock and see to the bull . |
| 16 | Many of the initiatives laboured over in previous years have come to fruition and a host of new ventures has sprung up , bringing fresh opportunities and challenges . |
| 17 | One of the girls walked over to the time traveller and smiled a genuine welcoming grin . |
| 18 | Then one of the girls comes over and says here it is , straight away . |
| 19 | In the event , the sale total made £3.2 million , with thirty-three of the drawings fetching over £30,000 each ( then the level at which export licences were required , now standing at £35,000 ) . |
| 20 | This is , of course , a time of smokescreens so far as the Masters is concerned and to hear some of the Europeans talk over the last few days , they appear to be in need of the psychiatrist 's couch as much as anything . |
| 21 | The mortified referee ordered the game to end but then was persuaded to leave while one of the linesmen took over , a spectator taking the linesman 's place . |
| 22 | One of the boys tripped over and crashed into a tree |
| 23 | Sometimes the stranger appears in the uniform of the police handing over other partisans to the forces of occupation . |
| 24 | Alex and Chris were playing poker as I walked in , and after explaining my predicament one of the Frenchmen handed over an old copy of the local paper which he had brought with him when he had joined . |
| 25 | Most of the apartments face over the harbour and you can sit on your balcony and watch the fishing boats chug in and out of the harbour . |
| 26 | Swales , the target for much of the fans anger over the past few weeks , is likely to resist Lee 's offer . |
| 27 | Dexter watched the shadows of the trees play over the panels of the door of the kiosk as it creaked shut behind Blanche . |
| 28 | As I entered through an archway into the cobbled farmyard the shelling had increased , most of the shells passing over in support of the attack party going in just along the road . |
| 29 | The voice sounded faint and was soon drowned out by the rush and moan of the shells passing over . |
| 30 | One of the lads come over from Switham House while Mr Benedict was here . |