Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] over [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The international community must take over from the states that fail to fulfil their obligations , ’ he said . |
| 2 | The government 's resignation was accepted by the GNA on Nov. 30 , after agreement was reached that an interim coalition government should take over pending the holding of fresh elections , probably in March 1991 . |
| 3 | In his absence , the Socialists gave him an ultimatum : he should hand over to the Communists . |
| 4 | It is that the Libyans should hand over to the United States or British jurisdiction the two named officials against whom the crime of mass murder is alleged in the warrants issued by the Advocate-General . |
| 5 | If this is done it is probable that this will have the effect of releasing any original tenant or surety from liability in the event that the tenant should hold over under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 after the expiry of the break-notice ( cf Junction Estates Ltd v Cope ( 1974 ) 27 P & CR 482 ; City of London Corporation v Fell ( 1993 ) 04 EG 115 ) . |
| 6 | The aspirations of the knightly class at its best and the sense that Christendom must go over to the offensive against Islam are nowhere more succinctly expressed than in this poem , written when the Christian reconquest of Spain was well under way , but when the crusades had only just begun , shortly before or shortly after the launching of the First Crusade . |
| 7 | Furthermore , different voice settings typically characterise different languages , and these settings may carry over into the pronunciation of a second language ( Laver 1991 : 248 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Someone might look over from the gate-towers and catch the gleam of it . |
| 9 | He was saying , ‘ Now we 'll go over to the bees , ’ and he went over and they were all lying at the bottom . |
| 10 | ‘ In that case I 'll go over to the Procura . |
| 11 | I 'll go over in the spring . ’ |
| 12 | And this is er the sort of thing that er you 'll hand over to the the medical practice to er at least remind them what you 're doing there . |
| 13 | ‘ We 'll wander over to the car when we 've finished , ’ he told the driver . |
| 14 | It is er And get Madge and Tom if you like , er , when we get , we 'll nip over for the week , you know ? |
| 15 | This way they they could tip over on the grass verge could n't they ? |
| 16 | Across the Bristol Channel we could see over to the cliffs of North Devon , while off to the west Carmarthen Bay and the Pembrokeshire coast stretched out into the distance . |
| 17 | Dickie was in the gardens there , Pammie drove two tractor driver , Jo , Jo was the , where 's Jo , Jo was the dairy , milk , then I used to drive the other tractor when we wanted two , and what we did we all could take over from the milker when she was off , or Pammie , we could all interchange . |
| 18 | We could go over to the Amsterdam and have a drink . ’ |
| 19 | We should pay the coaches to go to tournaments and watch and perhaps they could put over to the kids how hard they have to work ’ |
| 20 | So if I were you , I 'd nip over to the Company Health Club for a couple of hours , tidy yourself up a bit , and see what they can do to lick your wounds . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I was just about to ring you , dear , to see if we could pop over for the day , just to say goodbye — but I 've been so busy these last few days , what with one thing and another . |
| 22 | He was thinking maybe , just maybe , he could dive over to the locker and grab his coat and get out . |
| 23 | They used to come over for the spud-picking and go to Ormskirk and live in a bothy and would come to Scotland Place because there were so many wakes . |
| 24 | I can never forget how he used to come over in the evening from Bembridge School to sit with me after my son died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-seven , only eight months after his marriage . |
| 25 | ‘ I know , let's go over to the Windy Ridge , at Shepperdine . |
| 26 | ‘ Let's go over to the library , ’ she said briskly . |
| 27 | But to end the speculation now , let's go over to the Manor Ground and join Tim Russon . |
| 28 | Er , hello there , my name 's Mike , well let's go over to the weather with Winsy , no Winsy , oh Rita 's dropped dead , she 's jumped off a cliff we think , we think |
| 29 | And at the end of the day he 's tired , he 's physically weary , and he says let's get away for a while let's go over to the other side . |
| 30 | Icebergs are notoriously unstable , and may flip over at the touch of a careless finger or the thump of a careless boot . |