Example sentences of "[noun pl] over [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To get all the silly voices over in the same day Johnnie Walker will be presenting his morning programme on Radio 5 from there on Thursday . |
| 2 | He pointed to two dark shapes over near the charnel house at the far side of the cemetery . |
| 3 | The first is that , if the Rokkaku is a real handful and pitches over from the vertical even when a steady pull is made on the flying line , then extend the upper section of the single line bridle connector by slipping the Lark 's Head knot down You will then have lowered the towing point relative to the sail . |
| 4 | The irony of her situation struck her several times over during the following few days . |
| 5 | Freddie did not manage to keep us in the Cup against the powerful Rangers outfit but , usually playing at centre-forward , he steadily repaid that fee several times over during the first five post-war seasons , for not only has his tally of 48 League goals only been exceeded by six players here at The Palace since then , but his goals were scored in struggling Palace teams , which only once finished in the upper half of the League table . |
| 6 | It is a structure essentially tribal in Pakistan , caste-based in India , which , though distorted several times over by a changing economy , still retains some of its concepts ( including that of the position of women ) in their original form . |
| 7 | On the last count alone , Jerry Lee Lewis has justified his status a hundred times over in the past few days . |
| 8 | Indeed I believe there 's a distinct possibility , that the force of persuasion in my arguments will bring the other two groups over to the Conservative point of view . |
| 9 | Mr Haskins has been one of the most outspoken critics of the MMB plan to turn its other functions over to the new Milk Marque co-op . |
| 10 | The alley 's dead end glowed red in the wash of its brake lights , long shadows being thrown by the garbage hoppers over on the far side , and the sound of the cab 's turning engine had a hard edge in the chill night air . |
| 11 | He announced that courts would be given powers to bind parents over for the good behaviour of their children so that they could be ‘ brought face to face with their neglect ’ . |
| 12 | They win their parents over with a rose-tinted vision of the world which is decidedly reassuring . |
| 13 | Michael , 28 , of Wyville Grove , Hunton , won the judges over including the head chef of London 's Savoy Hotel to claim the £500 first prize along with a commemorative medal and certificate . |
| 14 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 15 | They can be the ‘ power behind the throne– , using what power they have to its fullest potential : analysing situations , forming appropriate alliances and putting messages over in a palatable way to the right audience . |
| 16 | While Ben went to get their luggage she led her guests over to a small building , separated from the main house by a large garage complex . |
| 17 | There are stirrings over in the lesser black-backed colony , the lighthouse monotonously flashes its warning signals , Pauline 's hot soup awaits you back at base — and you all agree : there is nothing quite like shear water ringing . |
| 18 | In 1642 he was acting as a commissary , or supply officer , at Chester , sending provisions over for the Anglo-Scottish forces in Ireland . |
| 19 | And is is not a fact that in fact the Killinghall bypass and the Ripon bypass , in fact does nothing to in fact i er alleviate those particular problems over about a seven mile stretch . |
| 20 | Next to Churchill there was only one man whom Mrs Robson apparently favoured , and that was Sir Arthur Harris , because was n't he sending bombers over by the thousand to knock hell out of them over there ? |
| 21 | He knows a lot about back play , and he 's the ideal man to put things over to the younger players . ’ |
| 22 | Mike Pumfrey had wondered whether the two of them might sit and talk things over in the two easy chairs stained , dusty , pre-war relics , that squatted capaciously in the far corner of the study . |
| 23 | Donaldson took the bananas over to the butcher-block table and found a knife and a dish . |
| 24 | I can see a dark figure , a barely visible silhouette against the backdrop of trees over on the grassy knoll beyond the car park . |
| 25 | I 've also swapped the leads over on the two floppy drives to check that drive A is n't faulty , but the problem remains . |
| 26 | Expectations in the following week that the Libyan government might hand the two men over to the Arab League , and thus pre-empt the approval on March 31 of Resolution 748 , were disappointed . |
| 27 | The US White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater had meanwhile ( according to Le Monde of March 26 ) said that it would not be sufficient for Libya to hand the two men over to the Arab League ; Libya had to comply with all the demands that had been referred to in Resolution 731 [ see ICJ verdict below ] . |
| 28 | ‘ Should I start by saying all the usual , very appropriate things ? ’ he asked lightly as he took their drinks over to a small table near the cavernous fireplace . |
| 29 | Maybe so , though it is still nice to see that principles still count for something , particularly when it comes to refusing to buy something you already own or turning that hand-out of shares over to a deserving charity at the expense of an easy-come , easy-go profit . |
| 30 | Alarmed by their disappointed Bonington descended the mountain and , with an increasing sense of foreboding , trekked the 45 miles over to the Kangshung glacier with expedition doctor Charlie Clarke in the slim hope that they had somehow descended the mountain by that side . |