Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] over [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Violence spilling over from the conflict in Croatia has escalated dramatically in recent weeks after the republic 's 1.9 million Muslims and 750,000 Croats voted overwhelmingly to secede from Serb-controlled remnants of Yugoslavia . |
| 2 | Emyr Lewis switches from blindside flanker to No 8 , with Perego taking over on the flank . |
| 3 | Taking a deep swallow of the wine , she glanced away , watching a large rigged sailboat as it glided by , packed with holidaymakers , distant strains of steel band music and laughter drifting over on the wind . |
| 4 | Two-year-old Lady would not be coaxed away from Jimmy Seymour 's van , so he had to keep the engine ticking over with the heaters full-on for eight hours while the bitch gave birth to eight healthy pups . |
| 5 | He became a member of the emasculated politburo when the invasion took place taking over from the wretched Mr Dubcek in April 1969 after branding him and his team ‘ extremists and rightwing forces . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ How do I look — ’ She stopped dead , her heart flipping over under the sweater as Penry Vaughan leapt to his feet at the sight of her , the height and breadth of him overpowering the entire room . |
| 7 | His hair was cut short with a cowlick dropping over at the front , like a freakster . |
| 8 | There was a hissing sound of milk boiling over on the stove behind her and she managed to twist herself sideways and grab the saucepan . |
| 9 | A large enzyme pool turning over at the same rate as a small one would produce more new enzyme , which would result in a greater amount of enzyme being available for secretion . |
| 10 | She hated him , hated him , her respect and breathless excitement keeling over under the weight of her rage and humiliation . |
| 11 | ‘ It was hard in way handing over to the Prince of Wales Own Regiment — you wanted to carry helping to get aid through to people who so desperately needed it . |
| 12 | No , she remembered her bag tipping over in the cloakroom at Mattli — it must have fallen out then . |
| 13 | Alternatively , filmmaking is seen as a sort of relay race in which each member of the creative team has control of certain moments — the producer handing over to the writer , who hands over to the director , who hands over to the lighting cameraman and so on until everything comes back to the producer again . |
| 14 | Masked by the apparently careless tumble of examples ( ‘ etc. , etc. ’ ) is a calculated insistence on the sore spot , on what Shatov in the notebooks calls social unsteadiness , a small but virulent secular profanity standing over against the noble , perhaps the noblest sequence in The Possessed , where Marie Shatov returns to her husband to give birth to another man 's child . |
| 15 | She turned and surveyed the room that was always hers when she visited Thomas , its architectural simplicity , the reassuring certainty of the heavy polished wood , the playful cubes and rectangles of the little Feininger villages which she had spent so much time dreaming over in the past . |