Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I say over a year now difficulty . |
| 2 | Despite the two question marks that I put over the Bill , I believe that the Government are right to proceed with the reforms that it contains . |
| 3 | If I squint at one window , I look over the plaza . |
| 4 | ‘ Do you mind if I look over the place ? |
| 5 | Coming to the top of Pachamama , panting like a dog in the torrid heat and thin air , I trudge over a mass of grey shale , each shattered step clear in the silence . |
| 6 | I pass over the Stone Bridge virtually every day and the view is one of the utmost squalor . |
| 7 | Time to leave the village now ; I drive over the hill into the next valley , past brown winter hills scarred with peat diggings and with the occasional relief of green patches of sphagnum moss . |
| 8 | I lean over a drawing-board to approve a sample merkin . |
| 9 | When filling small cracks , I 've found that I get a smooth finish , which requires little or no sanding , of I roll over the crack with a paint roller a few times , while the filler is still damp . , . |
| 10 | I find myself pausing for a few dots myself before I turn over the page to find where all this is leading . |
| 11 | I turn over the page . |
| 12 | I 'm scared that sometimes I go over the top with too many solos in the one song , but I try and keep them as simple as I can . |
| 13 | One hour later I cross over the burn and see the croft on the side of the hill about two hundred yards away . |
| 14 | I warn over the radio they 'll be carrying shooters under their suedes . |
| 15 | I bow over the toilet to retch but reverse away fast as last night 's urine smells like cat shit this morning . |
| 16 | There is quite a lot of activity as I come over the hill . |
| 17 | At the end of this month I hand over the care of the diocese to Bishop John Crowley . |
| 18 | But there is one scene where I fall over a sofa , which we added on the day of the shoot . ’ |
| 19 | If you had any idea how much I 've got to do before I take over the shop — ’ |
| 20 | Because he did n't think his player was coming over , Orville Moody 's caddie had taken Tom Weiskopf 's bag , but when he suddenly heard Orville was flying over , he ditched Tom and suggested I take over the bag . |
| 21 | ‘ I take over the wheel and we lose them , the whole shooting match . ’ |
| 22 | I reach over the palletwood fence and pour water from the long spout into his half-empty ice cream tub , then straighten and stare at the huge , inert body , my mind searching for an excuse to proceed beyond the shed . |
| 23 | I trip over a log and fall but do n't hurt myself . |
| 24 | While it is a fact that we often eat much more than we imagine we do ( try writing down everything you eat over a period of a week and prove the point ) , it is a fact that some people put on weight far more quickly than others . |
| 25 | ‘ You bale over the wall . |
| 26 | The river 's edge , where Virgil 's ghosts held out their arms in longing for the farther shore , and Dante , as a living man , was refused passage by the ferryman , the few planks that mark the meeting point of land and water , there , surely , is a place to stop and reflect , even if , as Father Watson did , you stumble over a ten-gallon tin of creosote . |
| 27 | If you need to pause to think before answering , do so , and if you stumble over an answer , start again if that will help . |
| 28 | Suspiciousness becomes almost an instinct , powerful and all-pervasive : ‘ When you go out on a Sunday afternoon [ in the country ] , say , and you look over a bridge at the stream , you can not help yourself . |
| 29 | All I can tell you is that much will change , rapidly and dramatically , and that once you get over the shock you 'll discover everything has worked out for the better . |
| 30 | If you pass over a tab stop as you move to the left or right , that tab stop will be deleted |