Example sentences of "[noun pl] over [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a flower bed of sorts over by the fence but the flowers look to be on their last legs , as far as I can make out . |
| 2 | When everyone has been checked , a senior Ranger leads about a dozen riders over to the park where less experienced riders are given lessons . |
| 3 | The walk passes through towns as well as countryside and gives good views over to the Cheshire Plain and the Peak District . |
| 4 | Like his father , he had some apprehensions about the filming , especially being told to do things several times over for the film crew . |
| 5 | But in many cases of recording factual information , opinions , attitudes and even physical characteristics ( such as domestic facilities within a house ) , work done by the schedule designer before the questions are asked , or the observations made , can be repaid a dozen times over by the ease with which subsequent analysis can then be carried out . |
| 6 | During lunch the Rentokil managers were heartened by the fact that in such a short space of time the seminar had paid for itself four times over by the amount of business gained . |
| 7 | Merrill could have sold the whole issue several times over in the US , but Waste Management International intends to acquire British companies , funded by future share issues , and needs to create a shareholder base in Britain to facilitate this . |
| 8 | Good historical practice will usually ensure that the attainment targets are covered many times over in the course of the work . |
| 9 | Nevertheless it was Webb and Bath who made their mark first , with a neat series of passes over on the right . |
| 10 | Subsequently , Step 3 , " Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him " is more demanding of one 's resources of humility ( as indeed are all the Steps ) but it is really a logical progression from Steps I and 2 . |
| 11 | The company also reports continuing strong sales of its Mips RISC-based systems in Europe and Asia , even though it is moving its product lines over to the Alpha AXP RISC . |
| 12 | Gently he put the gun down on the table and carried the pile of plates over to the sink . |
| 13 | Hewlett-Packard Co has won a $125m contract with Europe 's largest telecommunications carrier , Deutsche Bundespost 's Telekom , Darmstadt , for 1,000 PA RISC Unix workstations , printers and plotters : the German giant will move some applications over from the IBM and Siemens Nixdorf mainframes it uses . |
| 14 | ‘ He took his box of mints over to the inspector and offered him one , ’ said owner Audrie Stallard , 65 , of Llandudno , Gwynedd . |
| 15 | One of the German pilots saw the state of their clothes and offered to fly over to Mudros with a message for the British to bring some of their personal belongings over to the camp . |
| 16 | He had come , as arranged , to take her and her belongings over to the Hamiltons ' . |
| 17 | She is a member of the Institute of Marketing and well versed at getting her ideas over to the public . |
| 18 | After pushing our boats over into the water , we then righted them by putting all our weight on the centreboards where they poked out of the bottom of the boat . |
| 19 | ‘ If I had spoken to anyone properly about how I felt after Hungerford , ’ he says , ‘ I 'm sure I would not have turned my problems over to the bottle . ’ |
| 20 | And then , unable to be cross with him for long , you shift your feelings over to the critic . |
| 21 | A bit complicated : you have to get a hard core of guests and relatives over to the Register Office first ; then rendezvous at the church ; then get back to the drink-up . |
| 22 | It had been dry for weeks , but there were thunderheads over against the mountains and the atmosphere was heavy with the hint of rain . |
| 23 | The project resource sheet is so designed that once you 've allocated the resources , it is now relatively easy to transfer those res resources over to the project plan . |
| 24 | Maybe when he really got roughed up or stayed out for more than just a few days , Manuel would think about talking things over with the vet , but for now , well , ‘ what 's the hurry , man ? ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I need to take some things over to the hospital for Emma , ’ he said . |
| 26 | ‘ She had to take some things over to the hospital for Adam . ’ |
| 27 | As well as putting the finishing touches to their epic 20-track album ‘ Gorgeous ’ — ‘ the most diverse thing we 've ever done ’ — DJing 808 duo the Spinmasters have been spinning discs over in the US , while Graham Massey has been remixing everyone from the Sugarcubes to Future Sound Of London . |
| 28 | And with dignity he took the two glasses over to the bar . |
| 29 | Carson hoped not , as he made out the shape of something like Liawski 's diaries over by the skirting board of the opposite wall . |
| 30 | They started the fireworks when there was still rather too much light in the sky , although it was dark under the trees over in the dell . |