Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [to-vb] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cut pieces of muslin to fit over the rims of the containers and hold each of them in place with two large rubber bands . |
| 2 | In the meantime , Nobby was engaged in fashioning a piece of metal to fit over the top of the stick . |
| 3 | She grows new plants from seed , training things like osteospermum to tumble over the edges of the huge brick tubs built by Peter . |
| 4 | I told the conference that I had not come into politics to preside over the destruction of the National Health Service and repeated the Government 's commitment to it . |
| 5 | With that , Taff started digging while I searched around for timber to place over the trench . |
| 6 | now in heaven , Jesus is the king and Jesus will , will have a certain number with him in heaven to rule over the earth , a |
| 7 | LA could try a number of strategies , such as assuming a missing or inserted phoneme , in order to get over the mislabelled portion . |
| 8 | Now the Korean war was a limited war in that the United St neither the United States nor the Soviet Union wished in fact to fight over the Korean peninsula . |
| 9 | Perhaps the real reason for the temporary arrangements at Stretford Bridge was to enable trains to be run between there and Bishop 's Castle before agreement to work over the joint line had been reached . |
| 10 | There was a mixture of the formal and the informal about it ; the Keeper of Zoology in the 1810s was wont from time to time to leap over the stuffed animals . |
| 11 | After rounding the head of the Kyle , the old road returns north along the west bank to the bridge , there rejoining the A.838 which then aims across country to pass over the River Hope which issues from the freshwater Loch Hope . |
| 12 | The meal was hardly over when Mr Heath flew to Sunningdale by helicopter to preside over the last stage of the conference on the future of Northern Ireland . |