Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [to-vb] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then there was the blue velvet pelisse to go over the dress , with its white fur lining and deep fur hem , and a glorious white fur muff on which that clever Miss Adeane had stitched , at the last moment and quite behind Miss Baker 's back , a truly enormous blue velvet bow . |
| 2 | So far they had n't applied for a search warrant to go over the boat , but Maurice did n't care if they did . |
| 3 | That most glamorous of all the angels of the hearth , who had come in her little pillbox hat to preside over the purest and most gracious of all houses , the White House . |
| 4 | He is credited with forcing Gen Noriega to remove a portrait of Adolf Hitler from the wall of his secret bunker , training the dictator 's personal bodyguard , setting up his computer networks and complex personal banking system , and establishing a small and private intelligence team to watch over the Panamanian secret police and military intelligence . |
| 5 | Powers claimed by the Home Secretary to intervene over the content of programmes would radically alter the constitution of broadcasting , Mr Anthony Lester , QC , told the Court of Appeal yesterday in winding up an appeal against the High Court refusal to outlaw restrictions on interviews with named groups , including Sinn Fein . |
| 6 | Justinette insisted on linking her arm through Ari 's , dragging her to every shop window to exclaim over the bright and tempting , useless gimmickry to be found within . |
| 7 | Van Marion expects sales of its Unix product line to fall over the next year or so . |
| 8 | DESPERATE Tory Whips used every dirty trick in the book against MPs planning to rebel over the Maastricht vote , it emerged last night . |
| 9 | However , one other rule was that the Committee ‘ may allow first-class caddies permission to play over the course occasionally at such times … as the committee may deem advisable ’ . |
| 10 | ( 1 ) Our model permitted the hazard function to vary over the duration with changes differing across individuals , in contrast to standard reduced form models which restricted to uniformity for all individuals , ceteris paribus . |
| 11 | He had climbed on a garden seat to peer over the wall at their activities . |
| 12 | ‘ The BNP contends that it will take more than a Race Equality Council to smooth over the cracks of the fragmenting edifice that is the multi-racial society . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The BNP contends it will take more than a Race Equality Council to smooth over the cracks of the fragmenting edifice that is the multi-racial society . ’ |
| 14 | In Chesterfield , a plan by the city council to build over the market place and incorporate it in a new , covered shopping precinct was opposed by a petition with more than 80,000 signatures , and the plans were withdrawn . |
| 15 | One of the classic instances is Chesterfield , where the town had entered a partnership with a property company to build over the city 's open-air market place , replacing it with a covered market , shops and offices . |
| 16 | There was of course no longer need for missio , a remedy which had been designed for equitable reasons to allow a trust beneficiary to triumph over the constraints imposed by the limitation of trust protection to remedies in personam . |