Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] over the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woodwork can be clearly seen and the turned balusters have been looked after over the years . |
| 2 | I do n't mean lying lying , the real heavy-duty , professional stuff , like politics or selling timeshares , I mean those little , easy lies that we slip into over the years . |
| 3 | When the County School had moved to the Oxford side of the town in 1930 , generous provision of land had been made and that was prudently added to over the years . |
| 4 | ( This was added to over the centuries and culminated as a gigantic mansion of the early 1830s ) . |
| 5 | Was this a habit he had grown into over the years or had he always been like this , turning his wife into an invalid before there was any real need , a man who could only see himself in a solicitous relationship with other people ? |
| 6 | The outer door to the estate office slammed and the inner one opened with its uneasy stick and snuffle past the strips of draught-excluders worn down and added to over the years . |
| 7 | We were particularly tempting targets and , bombarded with jeers and gallons of water , we finally fled the hamlet clutching our sopping equipment to our bosoms like hysterical mothers — little comforted by the thought that these were the spiritual mediators of the people we intended to sail with over the months ahead … |
| 8 | We are now told that , having been lied to over the years , the British people now have the prospect of political union , and they react against it and shy away . |
| 9 | But this was a great feeling of what we had been used to over the years in watching American movies and , with our tongue in cheek and a bit of a giggle , seeing the adventures of the cavalry arriving , And for the first time in our years of combat I had a glow , a rosy glow , inside me and I knew and was certain for the very first time now we could not be beaten . |
| 10 | Those who are mentally alert may not find it easy or pleasant to take help from the very ones they have supported and cared for over the years . |
| 11 | And he 'd got lots of famous mates that want to play on his records , and he picks up a Grammy and releases records on scrupulous labels , instead of the 30 or more indie horsefixers he 's had the misfortune to deal with over the years . |
| 12 | I write to her with my window open to catch a breeze which is coming from over the plains where the short rains are expected . |
| 13 | You do n't have to over the rocks ! |
| 14 | That also means we will be subsidizing bad employers through our taxes and the fiddling factory owners will undermine the decent conditions we have fought for over the years . |
| 15 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |
| 16 | What kind of q Yeah what are the kin what are the kind of qualities that have helped you get by over the years ? |
| 17 | Maskelyne 's repertoire included many famous tricks and illusions which were repeated and improved upon over the years . |