Example sentences of "[be] over [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The days of lavish entertainment are over for the Harcourt Family . |
| 2 | Now that exhibitions are over for the season , all they need is seed and water . |
| 3 | Patrick , so he told Franca , had been over to the flat at Victoria and had had a ‘ talk ’ with Marcus . |
| 4 | At the first , a middle-aged woman with an enormous bosom was digging a fork into a plate of salad with the precision of an accountant jabbing at his calculator , before transferring the accumulated forkful up to her rapidly masticating jaws ; and Morse knew that if he had married her , it would all have been over within the week . |
| 5 | They almost , almost be over to the window , saying , look at those minus three cars |
| 6 | Ragged children wearing a semblance of black and white uniform skip along the pavements on their way to school ; by midday their schooling will be over for the day and they will start work alongside their parents , or engage in various enterprises from shoe shining to the selling of postcards . |
| 7 | Then he had added , ‘ I 'll be over at the factory if you need me before then . |
| 8 | I 'll be over at the Gloucester Docks to do my bit … |
| 9 | The change has been a major exercise , and while the civil war may not be over in the eyes of the excise collectors , the next issue of Guinness Today will carry the story of the people behind the massive change to End Product Duty . |
| 10 | He told them we knew all about it , and said we 'd be over in the morning . |
| 11 | This visit from the 416th Bomb Wing will be over by the end of the week . |
| 12 | All the sex would be over by the time Gina came back . |
| 13 | It would all be over by the time he got there ! |
| 14 | Many of the meetings listed on that page will be over by the time this gets to you but the details are given as a way of providing a background of work in progress and ideas for future programmes for all the groups . |
| 15 | So when people gather round the manger with wonder and puzzlement , I 'm over in the corner looking at the cows . |
| 16 | Some locomotives such as the three Class 55's , one example only worked on one day , with the importance being over to the BR hired fleet . |
| 17 | ‘ But I saw your husband come into the tent while you were over at the tombola , ’ Mrs Doran said to Mrs Yardley . |
| 18 | ‘ If I told you lessons were over for the day and you could go swimming , no doubt a miraculous recovery would take place . |
| 19 | His great days were over by the middle of the 1830s , although he was still active , on a much reduced scale , until at least the middle of the next decade . |
| 20 | That doll — that knitted gobshite — when that thing spat at you , you were n't anywhere near the window , you were over by the statues , on the other the of the room . |
| 21 | Okay erm Jim and Si were over by the trees having a fag and walked |
| 22 | Keith and John were over by the time Paul met John . |
| 23 | It 's over on the bookcase . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ After the office , it 's over to the pub , then a gig , then to a club . ’ |
| 25 | Meanwhile , it 's over to the USA too for the Galaxy C-5 , mission complete , thanks for the memory . |
| 26 | Looks like it 's over to the Government , Kirsty . |
| 27 | THEN IT 'S OVER TO THE PERFORMER(S) , AND it is here ( at least in the Western Classical music tradition ) , that the point of contract for the great majority of music lovers occurs : not with the original text ( as with paintings , architecture , novels , poetry , often even drama ) , but with the interpreter . |
| 28 | In fact , she 's over at the Yard now chattin' up some foreman or other she 's got eatin' out of her hand . |
| 29 | And he forecast : ‘ As soon as the election 's over at the party conference , watch 'em fall into line . ’ |
| 30 | Surely it 's over bar the paperwork . ’ |