Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [noun pl] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even torches had to be covered with paper and car headlights painted over , except for a small cross of light at their centres . |
| 2 | With so much archive material from the Bismarck and Tirpitz researches left over I was able to incorporate much of it in two successful books , Pursuit on the Bismarck , and Menace on the Tirpitz . |
| 3 | In Aquitaine many towns in the Lot and Garonne valleys went over to them , and by the autumn of 1370 most of the eastern part of the duchy was in French hands . |
| 4 | If share prices fall over that time , a safety net guarantees you will get your money back . |
| 5 | Tomatoes leaned on stakes , runner beans twined round a wigwam of canes and rambling roses rambled over their appointed places . |
| 6 | If lamb prices rise over the next few years , as they may well do , then the subsidies will fall . |
| 7 | The Government had initially aimed at a 1 January 1948 vesting day for the new Central Authority and Area Boards to take over , though eventually a date three months later was agreed . |
| 8 | In 1932 the government sent commissioners into Rotherham and Durham councils to take over their public assistance committees when they refused to operate the means test as rigorously as the centre wished . |
| 9 | Water colours and oil paints took over , but now he prefers computer programs as a creative outlet . |
| 10 | Legislation to set up an umbrella agency to control pollution in England and Wales has been postponed because government ministries disagree over the scope and scale of the new body . |
| 11 | We will have to wait and see whether caper berries take over when fromage frais and raspberry vinegar are exhausted . |
| 12 | Also it is disappointing that despite these improvements in performance we still do not understand properly the physics of thermal insulation and we did not expect that increased density ( up to the limit when particle collisions take over ) would have quite the favourable effect that we have found in many machines . |
| 13 | When Bristol Motors took over Armstrongs to become Bristol-Siddeley , he moved to industrial and marine engines with the Olympus and Proteus Gas Generators . |