Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] over [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Moran , O'Neill and Mick Deegan all attempted to curb the in-form Brolly with no success , and his blistering pace will give Cork manager Billy Morgan something to ponder over in the week ahead .
2 No , no , if you got called away there would n't be anybody to take over until the next relief if , if the man was coming up the dock with two yo yo well you would n't be able to get in touch with him either .
3 Alton 's back row combined to give club captain Dave Osborne — playing in the centre — a try and then Malcolm Osborne flipped an overhead pass to flanker Alan Purdon for him to go over between the posts .
4 Before the Collector continued about his business , Dr McNab asked him to come over to the window for a moment .
5 ( 2 ) Granting the application , that the central objective of the category of public interest immunity involved was the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force ; that therefore , in view of the public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice of some members of the disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , and of the extensive publicity already attaching to the authority 's documents following B. 's successful appeal , it could not be said that those who had co-operated in the authority 's investigation would regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses would withhold it , if the court were to release the documents to the applicants to enable them to defeat if they could an allegedly corrupt claim in damages ; that the imperative public interest in the case was that the applicants had a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they sought so that the grave allegations which they made , and were the same allegations that had troubled the Court of Appeal sufficiently to allow B. 's appeal , could be properly tested in the courts ; and that , accordingly , B. 's undertaking would be varied to allow him to hand over to the applicants those of the authority 's documents which were incorporated in his appeal bundle , the applicants for their part undertaking to use those documents only for the purposes of defending the present libel proceedings pursued against them ( post , pp. 927G — 928A , B ) .
6 They have contributed only 39% of what the central government requires them to hand over in the first three months of the year .
7 The summit may be an opportunity — I know that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is encouraging other Heads of State to attend it — that will enable us to put over to the British population the need to recognise that there is a balance , an interdependence and a need for the transfer of resources .
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