Example sentences of "[noun] over from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a good idea to keep a couple of sacks of gravel over from the job , so you can fill ruts and top up bald patches as the drive wears and settles down . |
| 2 | The pale middle-aged skipper emerged from the bowels of the ship as the second mate , another young lad , ticked the engine over from the wheel house . |
| 3 | Hewlett-Packard Co has won a $125m contract with Europe 's largest telecommunications carrier , Deutsche Bundespost 's Telekom , Darmstadt , for 1,000 PA RISC Unix workstations , printers and plotters : the German giant will move some applications over from the IBM and Siemens Nixdorf mainframes it uses . |
| 4 | Never having seen Jack suture , she wondered if she ought to call the fascio-maxillary surgeon over from the Norfolk and Norwich , or if she could , indeed , trust Jack to do a decent job . |
| 5 | ‘ Last Christmas they brought the children over from the nursery school . |
| 6 | The first thing I do is check the stocks , followed by date returns and er , you know , erm , get that done , out of the way , and start looking at the , of the night , and what have you , setting that up , and maybe the late night process , hand over from the branch manager , walk round doing any detail he wants me to do , and hand over from late nights . |
| 7 | A bad weather front feeling its way over from the west like a nasty white octopus in the blue summer sky . |
| 8 | Schneidau follows Pound 's own broad hints by tracing his gradual alienation or liberation from these early admirations according as Ford 's demands for a prosaic strength in verse writing gradually won Pound over from the Wardour Street language of his own early poems ( such as ‘ Canzone : The Yearly Slain' , written in reply to Manning 's ‘ Korè ’ ) . |