Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] over the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't want to go over the machine , ’ said Evelyn . |
| 2 | At first Lindy did not want to go over the wall . |
| 3 | Interestingly , these sounds are designed to flow over the patch changes so , while patch selection is already hardly noticeable , this extra feature masks the change very well indeed . |
| 4 | The sow was very angry when we took her little boys away and tried to clamber over the wall of the sty . |
| 5 | ‘ A couple of blokes tried to go over the wall about a year ago . |
| 6 | ‘ I tried to go over the fiction I 'd done , pull out the subtext and put it in a form that you could give to an audience at a world 's fair at the end of the century . |
| 7 | Okay , have a go at it and we 'll come round and correct what you 're doing as you 're doing it , alright , so you want to pad over the wound to keep infection out and then try to get your bandage on top of that to keep the dressing in place . |
| 8 | Bourassa 's view of the package was overwhelmingly endorsed by a special 4,000-member Liberal Party convention in Quebec on Aug. 29-30 , at which the provincial Premier gave a powerful performance and promised to win over the population of Quebec at the October referendum . |
| 9 | She passed Seb Smith 's house one evening in the spring , taking a new route when exercising Midnight , and stopped to look over the hedge ( too high for nosers on foot ) into the Smith grounds . |
| 10 | Eventually Maidstone tried to scramble over the bar but he slipped and fell heavily onto the floor . |
| 11 | When it was refused , some of them tried to climb over the wall . |
| 12 | In Setting up a closed.loop Stepping motor control the choice of appropriate points for deceleration initiation can be very difficult , because the load torque characteristics , which are usually a function of speed , may be ill-defined or may be expected to vary over the life expectancy of the system . |
| 13 | Mr Clarke answered criticism from Cleveland County Council leaders in comparing the money being spent on the City Technology College in Middlesbrough and what the education authority has to spread over the county 's state schools . |
| 14 | They lied at least four times last week as they tried to gloss over the seriousness of a plutonium spillage at the heart of their reprocessing operation . |
| 15 | She tried to gloss over the humiliation of it . |
| 16 | ‘ Daddy ca n't wait to get over the Atlas . |
| 17 | I propose to think over the situation of the Government generally during the week-end and I have not yet made any definite decisions as to possible changes of Ministers . |
| 18 | Chairman , the last speech was really explaining what I want to get over the fact that so many people want to talk on the issue and to complicate the issue . |
| 19 | Milder weather is expected to return over the weekend . |
| 20 | Later came the task of packing the barbecue and hampers on to the trailer which also carried the rafts , and while Silas and Matt stored smaller items away the two raft guides used pails and mops to wash over the floor with hot water . |
| 21 | The wire has to travel over the surface of the retina , to a point where it dives through a hole in the retina ( the so-called " blind spot " ) to join the optic nerve . |
| 22 | In 1966 , as the doyen of Indian civil servants , he was recalled to preside over the report of a commission on the future of the Indian Foreign Service . |
| 23 | They intended to offer Mussolini control of two thirds of Abyssinia provided he would save their faces by allowing Haile Selassie to continue to rule over the remainder . |
| 24 | Are shoppers now expected to hover over the vegetable counter at the supermarket , stricken with anxiety trying to remember which greens cause cancer and which do not ? |
| 25 | Even in death their lips were curled in a snarl ; their wizened faces and staring , blank eyes seemed to gloat over the evil they had planned . |
| 26 | Despite his fear he could n't help wanting to look over the edge of the basket but when he did was sure he saw , besides the surging of the sea , long black shadows just below the surface of the water . |
| 27 | It appears that the body was laid on a shallow lead tray with lip , and the upper section was shaped to fit over the body . |
| 28 | I meant to be at the station , but these people came to look over the house and I could n't get away . ’ |
| 29 | But it is a victory for the environment secretary Jose Lutzenberger , who had threatened to resign over the issue . |
| 30 | Environmentalists have strongly opposed the commission 's findings , and the Environment Minister in the centre-right coalition government , Olof Johansson , has threatened to resign over the issue . |