Example sentences of "[verb] over for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 TELL your friends that you are going to the Cape Verde Islands and , in all probability , their eyes will glaze over for several seconds while they frantically try to recall their long-forgotten school geography .
2 " Now , I asked you to come over for several reasons .
3 Trinity hit back with a 34th-minute try from David Jones and substitute Paul Round charged over for another touchdown on the hour .
4 One of the worst winters we had was at the start of the war , in 1940 , when the river was frozen over for six weeks right to the end of March and there was two feet of snow .
5 In 1991 the previous year 's ceiling of 23.65 million b/d was rolled over for another year , but no country quotas were set .
6 Andrew Thomas , who has now replaced Phllips as Neath 's first-choice hooker , supplemented his work in the tight by galloping over for two tries .
7 In addition , there are also certain to be one or two early mistakes which will need rectifying , and plans to be mulled over for next spring 's display .
8 In front gardens , lawns are paved over for off-street parking space and in the road more intrusion results from signs , barriers and other traffic-related street furniture .
9 All of these were admitted to the smallpox hospital , which was , however , later demolished , when the ground was built over for industrial purposes .
10 Although this has been argued over for fifty years , the size of this ancient catastrophe now seems incontrovertible .
11 So they were joining them , they came over The Texas sister came over for twelve months and they must have persuaded them to go back or something .
12 10–17 Jesus violates the taboo against healing on the sabbath by healing a woman who has been bent over for many years , justifying this on the grounds that it is even more urgent to help a fellow human being , a woman , than to rescue an animal that has fallen into a ditch ( an exception allowed under the law ) .
13 All the defendants were bound over for two years on a personal bail of £350 and some were also fined .
14 O'Doherty , who had not taken part in the obstruction , was fined £5 for allegedly leading the singing of ‘ We shall overcome ’ ( a charge he denied ) , and the others were bound over for two years on £50 personal bail .
15 Kenneth Shoane , 66 , was bound over for two years by Maidstone Crown Court in Kent yesterday for making threats to kill Kate Kray , 35 .
16 " He was bound over for two years in Leeds , but that ended last month . "
17 William Symons must have been a wild one for in July of the same year he and Elizabeth Cole also of Halling , were both bound over for twenty shillings to appear at the next gaol delivery .
18 He was bound over for 12 months in the sum of £100 to be of good behaviour .
19 In the second half ; whilst the forwards tangled with each other here on the left , they missed Gloucester 's Peter Glanville drive over for another score .
20 On the subject of overseas coaches or players coming over for big money to coach Irish clubs Armstrong has strong views .
21 Stone and marble fixtures weighing 400 tonnes from a garden in Boston have been shipped over for this sale .
22 The Manchester City of Brian Kidd and Mike Channon took over for five weeks until Clough climbed back and proved unshiftable .
23 She lifted a lined face to him , and he reached over for another Kleenex and smoothed the wetness away , so that she was almost without makeup .
24 In terms of the definition of er what is historic York I think again an issue we went over for some length of time at the greenbelt inquiry , I would draw your attention back to my earlier comments that York is basically a modern industrial city with a very precious historic core , that historic core er represents no more than actually five percent of the built up area , that something like eighty five percent of the city was built after eighteen hundred , the view that was expressed by the County in N Y Two , in terms of the definition of the greenbelt , the Greater York greenbelt and its purposes was not accepted by the City Council , we do not accept that all of the func elements of the York greenbelt contribute towards preserving the character of the historic city , we rely on the the fact that the two comments the Senior Inspector made at this , the the green wedges and historic core itself that establish the historic character of the city , there are many parts of the edge of York which could repli be replicated in many cities , historic or otherwise around the country and finally just coming back to the issue of scale of development erm the point I should have made earlier about the house builders figures for the city of York is that the house builders did suggest a figure of four thousand for the city , erm , I 'm not aware on what basis that was made , but clearly my evidence would quite clearly indicate that I believe that could not be accommodated , certainly on any known sites within the cit current city boundary , thank you Chair .
25 But in the artificial , unrelenting competitive world of perpetual travel and token nods across the net , there is n't too much time — or inclination — left over for real friendship .
26 But in the artificial , unrelenting competitive world of perpetual travel and token nods across the net , there is n't too much time — or inclination — left over for real friendship .
27 Recent research ( by Don Walz in the U.S.A. ) shows that the black pigmentation uses so much protein that there may be insufficient left over for normal growth and health .
28 Other large proportions go to space and civil aviation , leaving little left over for industrial R&D .
29 Whatever your circumstances , the point is that you should have enough money coming in in the Income column to meet the outgoings in the Expenditure column with , hopefully , a bit left over for rainy days and holidays .
30 In a class where almost half the time is spent on administrative matters , the time left over for active engagement in learning tasks is severely curtailed .
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