Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , if I 'm turning over a new leaf , I need new friends to go with it , do n't you know ? ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A week later I was called back to Downing Street by Margaret Thatcher and told that I was taking over the Department of Health and Social Security and also the question-and-answer session . |
| 4 | I do n't think so because it 's in the main street called street and I was taken over the first day . |
| 5 | I was poring over a chart in my room , working out a passage from Foulness Island to Aldeburgh , in Suffolk , when my door half opened and Sir Edmund looked in . |
| 6 | Anyway I was going over a few things in my mind . |
| 7 | I was doing over a hundred k.p.h. then through a miasma of mist , the Pacific glimmering opaquely away to our left and the light fading . |
| 8 | If you are soloing over a straight minor seventh you would not want to resolve a melodic line onto the minor sixth interval , although this would be okay on a m7£5 . |
| 9 | You 've just been told that you are to take over the job of manager for O A Z Company Limited . |
| 10 | Obviously if you are flying over a bad area , with very few good sized fields , it is necessary to divert towards the best area within range and to start looking seriously for a field at several thousand feet . |
| 11 | ( You ca n't fail when you 're handing over a cheque for £50,000 . ) |
| 12 | ‘ Just because she 's produced over a thousand scripts and books ? ’ |
| 13 | She 's taken over the household and the book-keeping too . |
| 14 | She thought of the dream she had sometimes in which she was leaning over a bridge and watching herself drown , watching herself slip down under the clear water and not giving a damn . |
| 15 | She was bending over a basket of freshly picked marrow flowers , arranging them to her satisfaction . |
| 16 | This , yes we 're taking over a couple of |
| 17 | All the political parties have accepted the fact that social security has got to change we 're spending over a third of public spending on social security and each political party is reviewing it to find way of making it more effective and to make saving . |
| 18 | I felt sure that he was more than a little drunk , but his voice never slurred or changed from that flat resonance that makes so many Americans sound as though they are speaking over a loud-hailer . |
| 19 | It 's probably because they 're taking over the er accident and emergency department from Clatterbrick it 's shutting down and it 's all going to Arrow Park . |
| 20 | One moment they seemed to be flying through and over mountains and the next they were skimming over a long , fertile valley , turning to come in with the wind and losing height steadily . |
| 21 | From that point they were to make over a hundred films together , some thirty of them silent ones , and with their best work probably deriving from the phase 1929–35 , when they were engaged in creating coherent and sparse twenty-minute cameos . |
| 22 | In such circumstances , if the Bank wishes to sell the stock it is holding over a reasonable time period , it will often be unable to avoid reducing its price . |
| 23 | The only activity at the plant that is secure is mainframe manufacture — as well as the water-cooled ES/9000s it already builds , it is to take over the air-cooled models currently built at the Valencia , Spain plant , as well . |
| 24 | The feedback from Alaska is positive and he feels he is taking over a successful concern with a good track record being put in place . |
| 25 | After all , Bush has nothing to lose — he 's handing over the White House to Clinton . |
| 26 | It was passing over a bridge across the Jumna . |
| 27 | By 1950 it was devoting over a third of its space to sport with particular emphasis on football . |
| 28 | Although the jury acquitted him on one murder charge , it was deadlocked over a second and a riot charge , and a retrial was arranged for Sept. 17 . |
| 29 | When she reappeared on the stage it was to look over a sea of smiling faces and to listen to the chant now of ‘ Macushla ! |
| 30 | On 26th May , Hunt came to see him and said that he was taking over the purchase negotiations for the Downing Street scheme , and particularly upset Pennethorne by producing one of Pennethorne 's drawings to assist him in the work . |