Example sentences of "pass over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | US Secretary of State James Baker also visited Poland on May 6 to brief Polish leaders and to pass over a West German invitation for Poland to join the July round of two-plus-four talks in Paris . |
| 2 | The rope supporting her passed over a beam , slippery with sweat and condensation , and was secured , taut as a cable , through an iron ring in the floor . |
| 3 | Further along , one could see where the street passed over a round-backed bridge and on into more rural surroundings . |
| 4 | We went on forward into a narrow passage beside yards of hot hammering engine of more than head height , throbbingly painful to the senses , and then passed over a coupling into another engine , even longer , even noisier , even hotter , the very stuff of hell . |
| 5 | As he approached the coastline he passed over a merchant ship . |
| 6 | There was a cabinet on the pavement beside the traction pole , in front of Holy Trinity Church , with a cable emerging from a hole in the top , which passed over a pulley near the top of the post and worked the overhead point , in conjunction with the rail point . |
| 7 | The sun was showing a different sheen as its beams passed over a stretch of the stone floor . |
| 8 | He had , however , proceeded in safety till he came to the Willow Walk , within half a mile of the church , when by a sudden stagger he quitted the path , and passed over a ditch on his right hand . |
| 9 | He passed over a camo poncho , which I told Kaptan to put on , after I removed his blood-stained shirt . |
| 10 | Lisandro Abadia , Aquino passed over a number of more senior figures , including Aguirre — the country 's third-ranking officer — and his immediate superior , Maj.-Gen. |
| 11 | A longer but more interesting approach is possible by leaving the cart track at the viaduct and keeping along the east side of the railway ; join the track from Winterscales to Dentdale by passing over a bridge near the entrance to Blea Moor tunnel . |
| 12 | I was passing over a hill when Idris drove past me , hooting , and pointing to the valley where he was obviously going to wait for me . |
| 13 | It was passing over a bridge across the Jumna . |
| 14 | Follow the path west passing over a high stile and making a steep ascent to the summit of Y Garn . |
| 15 | All too typical , however , was Lord Keith 's remark in 1799 that he had given a lieutenant 's commission to ‘ the Duchess of Atholle 's friend Glen Geary … a heavy dog too ’ , while passing over a brighter but less well-connected midshipman . |
| 16 | A later development was the combination of track circuiting , in which an electrical circuit is completed by the wheels of a train passing over a section of track , with ‘ lock and block ’ so that the electric-block instruments were controlled by the trains themselves and thus safety was doubly assured . |
| 17 | As it passes over a toll point in the road ( essentially a wire loop buried in the surface ) a radio beam from the loop will interrogate the number plate and feed back the vehicle number to a central computer . |
| 18 | The trapeze hangs lightly from a toggle , the toggle hangs from the end of a proper fishing line , the line passes over a springy pole to the door over the mouth of the basket where the little fish 's wriggling so free . |
| 19 | If you pass over a tab stop as you move to the left or right , that tab stop will be deleted |
| 20 | However , while the main strings are fixed through the body and pass over a roller on their way to the saddle , the octave strings affix to the back of the bridge . |
| 21 | Pass over a broken wall and turn sharp right . |
| 22 | It has been calculated that , in the Gulf of Mexico , there is a 95 per cent probability that a hurricane will pass over a particular point on the coast at least once in 3000 years . |
| 23 | The entire suspension was then passed over a nylon wool column . |