Example sentences of "[verb] over [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet she did compromise over the budget at Fontainebleau in 1984 , signed the Single European Act in 1986 , and accepted the Delors proposals for budgeting and agriculture reform in 1988 . |
| 2 | It is theoretically possible for a cow to jump over the moon with something like the same improbability . |
| 3 | To jump over the gap between two cells , a nerve impulse has to be translated from electricity to chemicals and back . |
| 4 | Thus , whereas in the relational model information about the object customer would be scattered over a number of relations ( which could be : customer , holding customer name and address information ; sales ledger , holding details about the debts of the customer ; invoice , holding details of payments due ) , in the object-oriented model there would be one object , customer , reflecting all this information . |
| 5 | A motley collection of tawdry items was scattered over an area at least four feet square . |
| 6 | They lived in small villages scattered over the landscape in varying degrees of density . |
| 7 | Scattered over the moorland to the left are the remains of hut circles . |
| 8 | While a large number of the items taken from Germany are held in special State-run storage facilities and are easy to work with , the majority of works removed from Russia were scattered over the world in the post-war period ’ . |
| 9 | I do n't know whether this is optional … is ‘ being severed in two , bowels turned to ashes and these ashes scattered over the face of the earth . ’ |
| 10 | He has one of them , the remaining four having been scattered over the planet for security . |
| 11 | Finally a sheer mountain of a wave smashed over the raft with a furious roar and swept it further on to the reef away from the pounding terror . |
| 12 | The ground was soft and squelchy when she got out of the car , and she felt mud oozing over the top of her shoes . |
| 13 | The Town Hall clock struck three , and still it was warm , April sunlight lying across the pool , lacing over the backs of fish . |
| 14 | ‘ Reversionary ’ bonus is added over the term of the policy and once added becomes part of the guaranteed benefits and can not be taken away by Clerical Medical provided the policy is maintained in full force until the end of the term . |
| 15 | ‘ Reversionary ’ bonus is added over the term of the policy and once added becomes part of the guaranteed benefits and can not be taken away by Clerical Medical provided the policy is maintained in full force until the end of the term . |
| 16 | ‘ Bragad 's men hold it , and all in it ; his ‘ Wares must have come over the ramparts in the night . ’ |
| 17 | Nurse Catherine Cockborn said : ‘ The change that has come over the pair of them is absolutely amazing . |
| 18 | One of the semi-independent Chinese generals had come over the border from China and encamped not far from Myitkyina . |
| 19 | As you explore your hand , allow your mind to wander over the significance of all its markings . |
| 20 | Allowed my eyes to wander over the whole of it , he wrote , and almost with satisfaction . |
| 21 | An image flitted into her mind : she saw herself plunge over the edge of that black pit and tumble helplessly through the dark . |
| 22 | The large Nubian was discussing something — evidently money — with a client who bent over the desk towards her , his back to Huy . |
| 23 | Before Grant 's shocked eyes , the nightmare figure fell weakly forward against the far end of the big console , its remaining hand groping over the surface towards a red button . |
| 24 | Through the whole of the long night that followed , Boldwood 's dark figure could be seen walking over the hills of Weatherbury like a ghost . |
| 25 | On the other hand , it 's also like walking over the end of a plug-hole . |
| 26 | Hundreds of miners from the western valleys were walking over the hill to the stricken village . |
| 27 | but the strong impression I had is walking over the hill from Kettleborough where the gun club now is walking down into this valley and seeing that view of this little end of the village nestling in the hollow and I can remember feeling a extraordinarily strong sensation that I could easily live there |
| 28 | Yes , but pretends he 's not watching and he looks over the top of his paper . |
| 29 | And the elder Miss Snoot at her window high up in Old Odborough looks over the roofs of the town . |
| 30 | It is much worse than a judge at Cruft 's checking over the points of a Pomeranian or Pekinese , and you are more likely to be bitten . |