Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] over [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Violence spilling over from the conflict in Croatia has escalated dramatically in recent weeks after the republic 's 1.9 million Muslims and 750,000 Croats voted overwhelmingly to secede from Serb-controlled remnants of Yugoslavia . |
| 2 | ‘ What I liked in the books was the free open-air life , the spice of illegality and daring , roguish characters — the opportunities so far exceeding my own , the gun , the great pond , the country home , the apparently endless leisure — the glorious moments that one could always recapture by opening the Poacher — and the tinge of sadness here and there as in the picture of the old moucher perishing in his sleep by the lime kiln , and the heron flying over in the morning indifferent . ’ |
| 3 | Emyr Lewis switches from blindside flanker to No 8 , with Perego taking over on the flank . |
| 4 | Taking a deep swallow of the wine , she glanced away , watching a large rigged sailboat as it glided by , packed with holidaymakers , distant strains of steel band music and laughter drifting over on the wind . |
| 5 | Two-year-old Lady would not be coaxed away from Jimmy Seymour 's van , so he had to keep the engine ticking over with the heaters full-on for eight hours while the bitch gave birth to eight healthy pups . |
| 6 | Interesting comparisons there should be here between two Wagnerian divas moving over into the Strauss Fach , with special attention to the Four Last Songs , both recorded live at concerts , but there is no contest . |
| 7 | He became a member of the emasculated politburo when the invasion took place taking over from the wretched Mr Dubcek in April 1969 after branding him and his team ‘ extremists and rightwing forces . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ How do I look — ’ She stopped dead , her heart flipping over under the sweater as Penry Vaughan leapt to his feet at the sight of her , the height and breadth of him overpowering the entire room . |
| 9 | The Big Bang has certainly encouraged the trend towards offering Golden Handcuffs — to maintain the Golden Hellos — and the insertion of exclusion clauses in contracts to prevent executives going over to the competition . |
| 10 | They ca n't stop the lorries coming over to the bakery cos the bakery 's just on the road can they ? |
| 11 | A few of the owners , like the Lorrimores and Daffodil and Filmer , had arranged their own transport separately in the shape of chauffeur-driven limousines , their chauffeurs coming over to the train to carry their bags . |
| 12 | A fabulous movement involving Jones , Barnes , Ian Smith , Carling , Scott Gibbs and Mike Rayer finished with Hunter scorching over in the corner . |
| 13 | This referendum , Pérez said , " means turning over to the people the overall solution of the crisis , fully exercising popular sovereignty " . |
| 14 | Sudbury , however , were battling under the handicap of having goalkeeper Steve Mokler off the pitch from the 15th minute , with central defender Trevor Gunn taking over between the posts . |
| 15 | His hair was cut short with a cowlick dropping over at the front , like a freakster . |
| 16 | There was a hissing sound of milk boiling over on the stove behind her and she managed to twist herself sideways and grab the saucepan . |
| 17 | Kevin Tamati 's men led 24-2 at the break with Coleman going over in the 32nd and 34th minutes . |
| 18 | Lewis taking over from the greatest at the pavilion er Lawrence and er , first time we 've seen Lawrence this morning , and on the subject of frustration Victor which you were just airing then , did you by any chance see Tony Locke at er Old Trafford when Laker took his . |
| 19 | Wigan struck again in the 37th minute when Betts and Edwards combined to send Phil Clarke crashing over by the posts . |
| 20 | A large enzyme pool turning over at the same rate as a small one would produce more new enzyme , which would result in a greater amount of enzyme being available for secretion . |
| 21 | Ballater saw one of the farm-hands going over to the shippon and told him to fetch Craddock and see to the bull . |
| 22 | That chill in the air : there were black clouds moving over from the left . |
| 23 | She hated him , hated him , her respect and breathless excitement keeling over under the weight of her rage and humiliation . |
| 24 | ‘ It was hard in way handing over to the Prince of Wales Own Regiment — you wanted to carry helping to get aid through to people who so desperately needed it . |
| 25 | ‘ There 's a load of nomes going over to the dump , so we 'll have company the rest of the way . |
| 26 | No , she remembered her bag tipping over in the cloakroom at Mattli — it must have fallen out then . |
| 27 | It was neat and clean , the smell of paint and thinners taking over from the smell of straw and apples . |
| 28 | Alternatively , filmmaking is seen as a sort of relay race in which each member of the creative team has control of certain moments — the producer handing over to the writer , who hands over to the director , who hands over to the lighting cameraman and so on until everything comes back to the producer again . |
| 29 | Masked by the apparently careless tumble of examples ( ‘ etc. , etc. ’ ) is a calculated insistence on the sore spot , on what Shatov in the notebooks calls social unsteadiness , a small but virulent secular profanity standing over against the noble , perhaps the noblest sequence in The Possessed , where Marie Shatov returns to her husband to give birth to another man 's child . |
| 30 | A group of workmen crossing over to the Valley just before dawn found her by the shore . ’ |