Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] over [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cult of Pleasure is revealed as being secretly given over to the worship of Slaanesh . |
| 2 | This division of the sky was eventually carried over to the division of the circle and so led to our present habit of dividing the complete ( two-dimensional ) angle around a point into 360 degrees . |
| 3 | Much of the meeting was apparently given over to the specific role X/Open will play . |
| 4 | Much of the meeting was apparently given over to the specific role that X/Open will play . |
| 5 | Lucie 's thoughts were entirely given over to the pain in his chest ; he was overrun with pain . |
| 6 | Some sociologists have researched ‘ counter school ’ youth cultures , and how they are naturally carried over onto the shopfloor . |
| 7 | Andy is filling the single champagne glass at the apex of the pyramid with champagne ; it is overflowing , filling the three glasses beneath it ; they in turn are overflowing , filling the glasses on the level beneath them , which are also full and so spilling over to the level underneath , and so on and so on down almost to the bottom ; Andy is on his eighth magnum . |
| 8 | The first time I get on , it is often after spending a few hours with them , and I kinda transfer over from the stable door to their backs . ’ |
| 9 | An opinion was expressed that such a purchaser under a suspensory condition ( that the money be only handed over on the certificate being got by the purchaser ) is not necessarily committing a violation of the Act , " assuming that he shows proper diligence in endeavouring to obtain the certificate , and is acting throughout in bona fide " : per Lord Trayner , ibid . |
| 10 | We were a finely balanced investment , threatening constantly to topple over into the realms of demand and expenditure . |
| 11 | Voices were suddenly raised over in the crowd and people began scattering to the edges of the area , clearing the centre and falling silent . |
| 12 | Jessamy shakily got to her feet , took a couple of very deep breaths , then stubbornly went over to the door . |
| 13 | I live on the reserve from March until early December and during this time I only go over to the mainland about once a month . |
| 14 | So , as the other person already occupied part of the left hand bench , he quite naturally went over to the right hand bench and promptly sat down . |
| 15 | Bothwell Castle , Uddingston , is the largest and finest 13th-century stone castle in Scotland , much fought over during the Wars of Independence . |
| 16 | Around Remagen you cross from Westphalia into the Pfalz , the old Palatinate , so much fought over in the Thirty Years War . |
| 17 | Joss-stick and Asian artefact merchants added to the atmosphere of the Indian countryside suddenly taken over by the children of the long boom . |
| 18 | The Antipodean visitor was VH–AQJ/A17–26 , which had been especially crated over to the UK for the event and was expected to spend about a month or so in the country before returning home . |
| 19 | Better come over to the window . ’ |
| 20 | One 's grant disappeared into a bottomless sea of cigarettes and beer with hardly enough left over for the books we were meant to read . |
| 21 | That would mean she could buy eggs for supper and pay something on the grocery bill and have enough left over for the vet . |
| 22 | It belonged almost in its entirety to Kenneth Horne , around whom the show was built , but there was enough left over for the supporting players , Betty Marsden , Hugh Paddick , Bill Pertwee and Ken , all of whom built up their own individual following . |
| 23 | There was enough left over in the 5lb bag to give most of the plot another top dressing last month . |
| 24 | I was less bowled over by the disc of Rutter 's own compositions , including his setting of the Magnificat , in which the Cambridge Singers are joined by the City of London Sinfonia , The Falcon , which adds the Choristers of St Paul 's Cathedral , and Two Festival Anthems . |
| 25 | In the same year he became the chairman of the radical Green Ribbon Club , but he briefly and secretly came over to the court interest . |
| 26 | The result was the meaty and woolly Southdown sheep , whose extensive use kept the local downland primarily as pasture , unlike chalkland elsewhere , which was largely given over to the plough in the later eighteenth century . |
| 27 | Well he supposed to give up smoking , it had caused clotting in one of his legs and then it just whipped over to the other one , he 's had to have it cut off |
| 28 | If only Oliver had not fallen over on the path he would not have gone to spend the night with Marjorie and Mr Sargent . |
| 29 | The battle for political supremacy was thus carried over to the Congress itself . |
| 30 | Even those of us in the office who had their doubts at first were soon won over by the instrument 's simplicity and friendliness . |