Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were various more or less half-hearted attempts to get over the finality of this selection . |
| 2 | These include : commercial records ; broadcasts recorded off-air ; private recordings donated over the years ; oral history interviews ; tapes of some of Britain 's leading theatre companies ; railway , wildlife , and ethnic sounds collected by experts in their fields ; and so on . |
| 3 | When the sick and exhausted Armenians reached Beirut after the Ottoman collapse , they were allowed to build shacks on the swamps of Bourj Hammoud in the east of the city and then to erect houses which look to this day curiously Balkan , their wooden balconies hanging over the narrow streets of Camp Marash . |
| 4 | On the cover was a picture of two legionnaires with shaven heads staring over the battlements of a fort in Chad , where in that summer of 1984 the Legion was assisting the government in their lowkey war against Libyan-backed rebels . |
| 5 | The numbers killed in commercial set-nets declined over the period , but the number caught in amateur nets increased . |
| 6 | The crew lost control of the ballast system after seawater splashing through broken portlights washed over the ballast console and caused it to malfunction . |
| 7 | Dead black roses drooped from the unkempt bushes growing over the face of the house , and the broad flagged path was almost hidden by unswept leaves . |
| 8 | At the same time , senior union officials will meet regularly with top executives to chew over the future of the entire company . |
| 9 | The share and rate of profit and the accumulation rate more or less stabilized at the very high levels established over the previous six years . |
| 10 | The houses with their heavy wooden windows leaned over the street until they almost touched in the middle , making it always cool and dark . |
| 11 | The sky in the open window was a pale night-blue and one or two first faint northerly stars blinked over the trees . |
| 12 | Two very old ladies presided over the tea and coffee pots ; they were the oldest members of the League , having travelled out to Tollemarche district with their parents in covered wagons before the town itself existed . |
| 13 | Her shaking hands slid over the tanned flesh . |
| 14 | As I walked forlornly around on my own , I could hear fragments of different conversations wafting over the music : |
| 15 | Her long slender fingers paused over the keyboard . |
| 16 | We passed splendid mare's-tail waterfalls where tiny becks tumbled over the cliffs , and watched oyster-catchers and cormorants wading and diving . |
| 17 | But a study of the Roman coins accumulated over the last century or so in museums has thrown up consistent differences between northern France and Italy , enabling certain conclusions to be drawn about the currencies of those areas . |
| 18 | During Mark 's absence in Spain , ‘ the mole ’ Fred Klepner had spent countless hours going over the Ten Year Business plan which was to be the subject of the presentation Mark was to give to Nate Cocello at the next Planning Committee meeting . |
| 19 | Having the right in the more serious cases to appeal over the head of the chief constable to the Watch Committee had little effect . |
| 20 | In a moment she was beside him and leaning forward , her narrowed eyes poring over the detailed plans , and excitement growing within her . |
| 21 | There are simple spinelets scattered over the dorsal surface of the disk although they are often rubbed off in preserved specimens . |
| 22 | We 'd have to jazz it up a little , get a few prominent vocalists to sing over the coolant 's bubble , a few name producers to chip the chilly vibration down to its component cubes and then restack it into a great wall of freezing sound . |
| 23 | Instead of flower-infused silence , the air was filled with the clamour of autumn : the cries , the chaffing , the folksongs , the team-songs of the villages ; the chinking of blades ; the rumble of flint-studded boards driven over the threshing-ground . |
| 24 | By contrast , the research studies were looking more broadly at the whole child care service , and seeing the remedies prescribed by previous reports on similar scandals spreading over the whole system , and informing a confrontational , antagonistic and defensive approach to work requiring a more collaborative and inclusive spirit . |
| 25 | Rather than leave him in pace , the minotaur , video monitors blinking in its belly , hydraulic arms swinging over the crowd , turns round for a second go … |
| 26 | Directly below her were some tiny creatures crawling over the surface . |
| 27 | Jess looked at the worried forehead wrinkles , the nervous hands fussing over the teacups , plum cake and shortbread . |
| 28 | As regards undergraduates , Table 1.2 shows the numbers of full-time and part-time students enrolled over the same period , and Table 1.3 the number of first degrees awarded in each sector . |
| 29 | Despite ominous clouds hanging over the Malvern Hills , the crowds began arriving early at the Three Counties Showground.The Spring Gardening Show has become the regional equivalent of the Chelsea event . |
| 30 | The 300,000 extra jobs created over the seven-year period was in proportional terms close to the rate of employment growth in England and Wales , but for the South-east as a whole the rate was much higher . |