Example sentences of "[verb] over the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | For example , JG ( J. Gray ) heard the inspector of the relief with which he was working say over the personal radio , ‘ Look , I 've got a bunch of coons in sight ’ . |
| 2 | What has been the subject of radical , almost revolutionary , change over the past decade or so has not been the civic culture but the perceptions of that culture . |
| 3 | Until the northern route was made the only road link between Applecross and the world outside lay over the notorious Bealach na Ba , a high and difficult pass attaining an elevation of 2000 feet ; a sore trial for a timid car driver . |
| 4 | There she lay , cold and wounded , clutching the branch and staring at the corpse of Scathach , limp over the black horse . |
| 5 | But questions remain over the long term benefits of the orphans ' visits . |
| 6 | But questions remain over the long term benefits of the orphans ' visits . |
| 7 | Two key questions remain over the entire affair . |
| 8 | A friend of both of them , who has watched this unhappy saga unfold over the last decade , now concedes : ‘ I am sorry for the tragedy of it all . |
| 9 | In a similar way , the fact that the Prime Minister is leader of the party and the fact that the majority party in Parliament invariably supports the Prime Minister 's lead and the legislation set before them , does not " prove " that the party itself is without influence over the Prime Minister . |
| 10 | Rub over the Early Reply bonus seal on your Entry Bond with a coin to find out if you are eligible to be our first £100,000 Double Prize Draw Winner . |
| 11 | Rub over the Early Reply Bonus seal on your Entry Bond with a silver coin to find out if you are eligible to double your potential first prize to £100,000 . |
| 12 | Notwithstanding the former grandeur of the Cathedral , Johnson wrote no more than a page on Elgin , concluding with an attractive clue to a traveller in his wake : ‘ In the chief street of Elgin , the houses jut over the lowest story , like the old buildings of timber in London , but with greater prominence : so that there is sometimes a walk for a considerable length under a cloister , or portico . ’ |
| 13 | A crisis may won develop over the late arrival of the board 's evidence on the manufacture of the pressure vessel , which will house the reactor core . |
| 14 | He leaned back , then took up the book and began to read again , letting Lao Tzu 's words — words more than two and a half thousand years old — wash over the sleeping boy and bring him ease . |
| 15 | The Somerset landscape has been dissolved in darkness , and the mysterious forces of nature , normally sought by Coleridge high in the Quantocks , or in the dell at Alfoxden , now wash over the sleeping town and reach to the very door of his cottage . |
| 16 | Parish council clerk at Gainford Margaret Brown said : ‘ They should n't strictly have been on the bridge but a lot of people do walk on it and climb over the small barricade at each end . |
| 17 | So the quickest way to get to the woods , if you were part of the Martin household , was to enter the orchard farthest from the house and climb over the vine-clad wall at its end . |
| 18 | Spread over the sliced orange in the cake tin . |
| 19 | The Thermogrill surface combustion burner gives an even heat over the whole surface , even when it 's turned down . |
| 20 | These projects range over the entire field of the life of the Church : the establishment of new dioceses ; the training of catechists , lay leaders , nuns , priests ; the building of churches , parochial centres , school centres ; preaching the Gospel by press , television and radio ; hospitals , clinics , leprosaria , disaster relief , medicines , transport and other miscellaneous works . |
| 21 | Composed of military commanders , political officers and Party officials , their concerns range over the entire panoply of administrative and disciplinary functions , as well as troop control and civil-military relations in the USSR 's 16 Military Districts . |
| 22 | These honours subjects range over the whole field of legal interest . |
| 23 | In 1684 he turned over the retail side of his business to Francis Saunders and his partner Joseph Knight . |
| 24 | The other two windows look over the thatched roof of the kitchen hut to a stand of eucalyptus trees , the waters of the lake and the mainland peninsula of Capachica . |
| 25 | The Government of Sri Lanka has shown itself to be increasingly sensitive to the outcry over its appalling human rights record over the last decade . |
| 26 | To hire a car would be a mistake if you want to enjoy the White Mountains , which extend over the western end of the island , from immediately behind Chania and the north coast road to the edge of the south coast . |
| 27 | The trio is completed by Dick Vance , the computer ‘ driver ’ , though his activities extend over the whole breadth of keeping the flight data read-out units in working order and developing the programs and electronics generally . |
| 28 | The Prince carelessly handed over the sealed paper , then sent one of his Dutch aides to enquire about the identity of the girl in the diaphanous gold dress . |
| 29 | ‘ There was no Albert Bridge then , ’ recalled Ben Bellaser , ‘ to span the river and ride over the ancient town with its oppressive grandeur , and the moon was rising and lighting up the shore and houses as they rose one over the other in terrace fashion against the dark blue starry sky ’ . |
| 30 | Turning over the free endpaper to the next double page , we shall usually arrive at the first appearance of print , unless the publisher has been very free with his endpapers and given us some blanks . |