Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second half of February was much more unsettled as an area of high pressure persisted in the eastern Atlantic , allowing frontal troughs to topple over its northeastern flank into Scotland . |
| 2 | As successive batches of immigrants strove to carve out their own territories and perhaps take over existing farm and hunting lands by force , the already established settlers built impressive hill-forts to watch over their possessions and shelter people and livestock in time of emergency . |
| 3 | I could see various expressions pass over the faces of the waiting constabulary . |
| 4 | She told herself not to let negative thoughts take over , but , night after night , her will-power dissolved into helplessness , and when at last she slept , her past life rose before her like a grotesque apparition . |
| 5 | For planning , we spent long evenings poring over maps . |
| 6 | At the Troxy , in Commercial Road , Stepney , they 'd have American stars coming over . |
| 7 | The ‘ impressive and general ’ wording of Article 23 was seen as demonstrating that the Convention would not have been a proper vehicle for a treaty which would have done the barely conceivable by giving other countries control over American litigation . |
| 8 | New rules to allow private companies to take over the running of key public sector construction projects such as the the Channel Tunnel high-speed rail link , London rail links and major bridge and road projects . |
| 9 | He had also appointed professional diplomats to take over from the members of the Soviet Political Consultative Council delegated to negotiate with the Baltic states on issues arising from their independence from the Soviet Union [ see p. 38541 ] . |
| 10 | But it 's important we keep other An eye on the other things , keep other things ticking over and things like the hormone cream and the lithium will be a help in that . |
| 11 | This voluntary scheme , which gives general practitioners control over budgets to cover prescriptions , specialist outpatient consultations , and elective surgical procedures for their patients , has been embraced with enthusiasm by some general practitioners , but others have been concerned that it could encourage the development of a ‘ two tier ’ service , in which the advantages gained by fundholders for their patients are achieved at the expense of patients in other practices . |
| 12 | I do understand that many people think wild animals roam over very large spaces and therefore feel cramped if they are kept in restricted areas but most have territories , areas which they mark out for themselves in various ways , and spend all their time inside these territories anyway and consequently they can consider their enclosure as being their own territory . |
| 13 | Organised by WACC 's Pacific region and hosted by the Divine Word Institute , the workshop aims to equip local publishers to take over responsibility for the layout and design of their own publications . |
| 14 | I 've landless men to send over to take the places of the dead , and fowls and beasts to get them started again . |
| 15 | Blake 's work for MI6 included not only gathering intelligence from the Russians but tracking down and watching Communist spies sent over into the West . |
| 16 | Solveig Shjelstad remembers clearly how because he was so badly disfigured , her mother had sent her to collect small branches to lay over his body before the coffin was sealed . |
| 17 | In the towns , markets contain whole sections given over to stalls with a vast variety of herbs and roots for every conceivable ailment from toothache to tuberculosis . |
| 18 | The daunting confines of the Crucible Theatre have been known to make strong men tremble over the simplest of pots , but after what has happened to the unassuming Thai in recent weeks , it will be a shock of seismic proportions if the occasion affects him — even on his debut . |