Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] over [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A girl came in and tried to haggle over a nineteenth-century vase , but Rachaela told her Mrs Mantini fixed the prices fairly and never reduced items . |
| 2 | Dennis the Menace has turned over a new leaf — for a week ! |
| 3 | COMIC Mike Harding saw how Middlesbrough has turned over a new leaf at the weekend . |
| 4 | An Italian entrepreneur has taken over a whole department store to sell western goods in Romanian currency . |
| 5 | Science fiction has taken over the fantasy-forming role of traditional mythology . |
| 6 | Once again , the counter-revolution has taken over the key concepts of this approach and turned them on their head . |
| 7 | Again , the frequency of masturbation is perhaps highest among older males recently defeated by a newcomer male who has taken over the sexual role in his harem . |
| 8 | The engineering company T-I has taken over the Dowty Group , based in Cheltenham . |
| 9 | In his absence , fellow director Mr Pahdra Singh , well known proprietor of the 8-Day Superette and Pahdra 's Palace take-away , has taken over the day-to-day business of chairman . |
| 10 | Senior Trading Manager Jim Kerr has taken over the inter-bank team while David Peebles , Senior Corporate Manager , has been recruited to head the corporate dealing and business development team . |
| 11 | Annual General Meetings are attended by several thousand employee shareholders and ( in contrast to the normally sedate company AGM in some discreet City hall ) NFC has to take over the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham or the Winter Gardens at Blackpool . |
| 12 | Also on May 2 another Croatian policeman was killed in the mainly Croatian coastal village of Polaca when Serbian police tried to take over the Croatian-manned police station ; and a helicopter carrying among others the Vice-President of the Croatian Federal Assembly , Vladimir Seks , was fired on and forced to make an emergency landing after it took off from Kijevo . |
| 13 | You 've got to get Boris 's agreement before anyone can press the trigger or is this actually much more dangerous than it sounds , is he saying we want to take over the nuclear weapons . |
| 14 | Budgetary time scale to encourage planning over a multi-year time horizon . |
| 15 | Ross , who 'd taken over the industrial empire founded by his father , Sir David Wyndham , had been planning to develop and broaden the company 's overseas operations . |
| 16 | Finally , when the war was over , the political groupings which had given the Nationalists their moral and material support would not only not disappear , but would expect to be duly recompensed and might even expect to take over the legislative and executive control of the New State . |
| 17 | As the lines were alternately pulled so the pulley actuated a semi-circular rudder hinged across the diagonal of the rearmost box.One does not need to have much imagination to see how the rudder deflection might send the Box kite into limited stunts , given a strong wind ; but we doubt if the rigid stability of a Box kite could be persuaded to perform over a wide range of movement . |
| 18 | This spell may be used to freeze over an entire body of water anywhere on the battlefield , for example an entire river , a marsh , or a lake . |
| 19 | That is how I see her now , turning to look over a white shoulder , with the placid expanse of lake about her . |
| 20 | It is sometimes said by government officials — I have heard it said by leading members of the administrations of Tanzania , Nigeria , Sierra Leone and Zambia — that African journalists are not sufficiently experienced to tell when an interested party in a dispute may be attempting to put over a particular point of view or discredit a government policy by using the press or radio . |
| 21 | Ectothermic reptiles have a body temperature that tends to vary over a 24-hour period , and hence seem unable to support a large brain . |
| 22 | Now it 's my turn to perform that task and I am sure you are all going to turn over a new leaf and make things easy for me . |
| 23 | He would always remember handing over the final payment , because it was on the same day as the first big aeroplane raid over London and he spent most of that night hiding under his father 's bed , with both Sal and Kitty clinging on to him for dear life . |
| 24 | A teacher is needed to take over a long standing recreational class at in September . |
| 25 | He was so handsome , and dressed as casually as she was , in trim-fitting chino trousers and tweed jacket worn open over a cotton-knit shirt . |
| 26 | Above him , the ward 's Christmas decorations looped in colours of green , red , silver , gold and white , and his elbow threatened to knock over a small ornamental tree hung with miniature packages . |
| 27 | On June 22 , West Germany agreed to restructure over a 14-year period a debt of DM3,000 million due for payment by March 1991 . |
| 28 | If we could have turned over a living trilobite we would have seen an array of jointed legs on the underside , and flexible antennae . |
| 29 | ‘ I like the layout of this Ampeg amp — a minimum of bullshit , and you do n't have to slave over a hot graphic to find a sound . |
| 30 | 35 Kurds were arrested after they attempted to storm the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm on April 7 ; the Iraqi chargé d'affaires was later expelled after the embassy refused to hand over an automatic weapon which police claimed had been fired from the embassy during the incident . |