Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb base] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many older women probably avoid relationships for similar reasons but , once they get over the inhibitions , it can be very reassuring to know that you are accepted , varicose veins , belly and all . |
| 2 | If you open you 've got gangs of young lads patrolling the town , even with whips and if they get over the door you 've had it . |
| 3 | If you open you 've got gangs of young lads patrolling the town , even with whips and if they get over the door you 've had it . |
| 4 | Which may not rank the outsiders in the eyes of the Ladbrokes odds-maker , but if they look over the fence they will certainly be able to see the outsiders from where they have been placed . |
| 5 | But they gloss over the ambiguities in the concept of the subject which underlie these difficulties . |
| 6 | A railway company has instructed its engine drivers that before they go over a crossing , they must sound their whistle , to give warning to anyone crossing . |
| 7 | You can usually spot such former lesions because , when they occur over a patterned area , that pattern will be broken . |
| 8 | Every hill-walker dreams of seeing a wildlife drama unfold in front of them as they peer over a crag , hoping that the next rise will reveal an osprey fighting off a wildcat which it returned to find attacking the nest , forcing the great bird to drop its intended dinner , a pine marten , which runs for its life , stopping only to catch and eat a grounded , flapping , pipistrelle bat . |
| 9 | Why then do their minds go blank as soon as they turn over the question paper ? |
| 10 | The sudden roar as they sweep over the horizon is part of life in this otherwise quiet stretch of countryside-often alarming enough to send children into bursts of frightened tears . |
| 11 | The exterior surface of most ammonoids is covered with ribbing — dense on some species , sparse on others — the ribs often split into two or more smaller ribs as they pass over the back of the whorls . |
| 12 | Jimmy Jessop , the glaciation expert , who is a skilled pickpocket , undoes the back buttons of Neil 's braces as they lean over a diagram together , until Neil loses his temper , and chases Jimmy round the office , shouting that he is going to bloody kill him . |
| 13 | This pattern is made not only by the dancers ' feet as they move over the surface but also by the dancers ' bodies as they move through space . |
| 14 | These worms have large buccal capsules and feed by ingestion of plugs of mucosa as they move over the surface of the intestine . |
| 15 | Black silhouettes move out of the darkness and change into blunt torpedoes , dark and slow-moving as they glide over the sandy bottom . |