Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The memoirs of great inter-war players like Dixie Dean , Tommy Lawton , and Stanley Matthews politely skate over the issue , but a Manchester United player in the 1920s recalled a telling incident involving the club captain , Frank Barson . |
| 2 | There 's no installation program ; instead you have to create a directory on your hard disk and manually copy over the files . |
| 3 | No one is saying it is fair , but the system has more or less worked over the years . |
| 4 | She only took over the field 6 months ago and fears young hooligans are trying to drive her and her animals away . |
| 5 | He admitted that mistakes had been made in the five months since he personally took over the government , especially in the slow pace of privatisation . |
| 6 | Mr Yeltsin admitted that mistakes had been made in the five months since he personally took over the government , especially in the very slow pace of privatisation . |
| 7 | She 's sixteen , old enough to take over the housekeeping . ’ |
| 8 | The other way to find out is to cover each eye in turn ; if there 's a squint , the bad eye will generally move outwards to take over the job of seeing . |
| 9 | The man slowly turned over the page of his magazine . |
| 10 | Receivership is anathema to corporate financiers , who hate to see their fat fees going to those who just pick over the bones . |
| 11 | The former Charlton youngster has had a harrowing time at Wednesday since his £250,000 move in January last year — but is aiming to finally win over the Hillsborough boo-boys . |
| 12 | They look like any other novel if you just flick over the pages and they are divided into chapters . |
| 13 | The first time he sang the poem Bilbo had just handed over the Ring and was off to Rivendell ; the words accordingly express a sense of abdication , of having been left behind , along with determination to accept this and make a new life somewhere as yet unknown . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm training it to grow along the kitchen wall , and the flowers already hang over the kitchen 's picture window . |
| 15 | ‘ Drivers who persistently drive over the limit should think how they would feel if a speeding motorist kills one of their loved ones ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Drivers who persistently drive over the limit should think how they would feel if a speeding motorist kills one of their loved ones . ’ |
| 17 | WHSmith did n't create Our Price ; it just took over the business . |
| 18 | Late in 1939 Jack Radford was moved back to Toronto and he was sorely missed ; he was succeeded by Peter Aylen who proved a most satisfactory station manager for a year until he also was transferred back east and shortly took over the post as Director of Radio for the United Nations Organization in New York . |
| 19 | She became ingratiating and saw herself finally taking over the housekeeper 's role . |
| 20 | As early as 1788 the Marylebone Cricket Club revised the laws of the game , thus taking over the role of the celebrated Hambledon Club . |
| 21 | Sometimes they just go over the top . |
| 22 | ‘ Now , if we could , please , just go over the figures … ’ |
| 23 | This duty was helped by the fact that the general hospital units being built up in the London catchment area were already taking over the functions of the asylums . |
| 24 | Okay erm , if we just turn over the sheet look at distribution of er of the F statistic . |
| 25 | And I went , ha ha , just turn over the cassette ! |
| 26 | I could n't have been more pleased by his decision , and told Granpa that when I finally took over the barrow we would n't even have to change the name . |
| 27 | ‘ Robert had just taken over the Seconds , but was called back to play in the first team . |
| 28 | I know your local authority craftsmen and I have as you 're aware , just taken over the responsibilities and that is the first meeting that I had , that was why also there 's nothing in the report , because I thought I had a conference of people I had not spoken to the shop stewards I did n't have a f a feedback prior to the closing date of the report being concluded for print so I do and I have |
| 29 | I had just taken over the Chair and I thought that he was making an intervention . |
| 30 | At Festival time 1983 , Fania Williams , who had just taken over the Tron in Glasgow , asked me if I was interested in fairy tales . |