Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | At night we listen for the sea freezing over . |
| 2 | Unfortunately the position makes them ideal for the kid to cut over and leap frog over , especially straight into the oncoming traffic and the er bearers . |
| 3 | The early Vikings believed that the rainbow was a bridge for the gods to walk over when they wanted to visit the earth . |
| 4 | Thus , where the subsidy solution is adopted there is a pressure for the government to take over the entire running of the industry so that all operations can be carefully monitored . |
| 5 | It has been a radical step for the Government to hand over large parts of the policies which , until now , have been centrally determined . |
| 6 | Just waiting for the draught to come over . |
| 7 | When sport fails to deal adequately with the excesses of its performers , it is right and proper for the courts to take over . |
| 8 | The thing about the solo is that it should really be a chance for the guitar to take over from the vocalist and really hit you in the heart like vocals can , and I 'm sorry but these heavy metal solos can never really hit you because it 's just music by numbers . ’ |
| 9 | During the 1980s , the domestic industry opted almost exclusively to clone the DEC VAX , and when the company set up a subsidiary in Hungary in 1990 , it held off suing the key clone supplier , KFKI , in return for the firm handing over its customer lists . |
| 10 | In other circumstances all that needs to be done if the transaction is a domestic one , whereby , say , a shareholder transfers his holding as a gift to a member of his family or sells it to an acquaintance , is for the transferor to hand over to the transferee a signed share transfer together with the share certificate which the transferee will lodge with the company and the register will then be amended by adding the transferee and noting that the transferor has ceased to be a member or shareholder in respect of the shares . |
| 11 | Swanwick Junction signal box , the former Kettering box , is the scene for the tablet change over between the signalman and the driver of 55015 . |
| 12 | My Service wanted me to try and penetrate it , just on general grounds , but I told them : the whole point is not to have their names on our files , all ready for the Soviets to take over . |
| 13 | She tried lifting her skirt to fish under it for the pocket hanging over her petticoat . |
| 14 | Statistics out this week for the economists to chew over include November 's balance of payment figures . |
| 15 | His work for the BDDA stretched over nearly twenty years , during which time he served in an honourary capacity as Secretary , as Chairman of the Scottish Regional Council and as editor of the BDN in succession to Kenneth McDougall . |
| 16 | And now she concentrated the whole of her mind and her brain and her will up into her eyes and once again but much more quickly than before she felt the electricity gathering and the power was beginning to surge and the hotness was coming into the eyeballs , and then the millions of tiny invisible arms with hands on them were shooting out towards the glass , and without making any sound at all she kept on shouting inside her head for the glass to go over . |
| 17 | Peter then approaches the blackboard on which he writes the date , 5 November : this is the cue for the jazz to take over from the calypso ( in more strident tones than before ) as an indication of the disturbing events which follow . |
| 18 | Although the UK market has only been contributing some £15,000 a month or so to the company 's coffers , Christoforou expects to appoint half a dozen sales staff by April and says he will be looking for the outfit to turn over £2m plus in its first year . |
| 19 | The officers were reminded that during the party split over common market membership in 1971 an executive member who opposed the Government line took the ‘ honourable course ’ and resigned . |
| 20 | At the other end Tyrone Howe who saw very little of the ball during the match went over for a try in the left corner , following a fine break from Andrew Gallagher . |
| 21 | COME 1 JANUARY , THE MAN WHO turned GM Europe into a profitable operation and fathered winners such as the Calibra takes over the top spot at Chrysler . |
| 22 | Journalists , desperate to break the story on the latest trend in designer drugs , are hyping Ketamine as the drug to take over from Ecstasy . |
| 23 | And as the squabble boiled over , the company threatened never to return if the theatre pressed for lost bar takings , estimated to be £1,650 . |
| 24 | Then I forgot about it as the carrots boiled over . |
| 25 | Two years later , the HS. 125–400 executive jet ( known to the SAAF as the Mercurius took over the mantle . |
| 26 | As the FA handed over control of this aspect of the game to the League , it was not likely that club chairmen would encourage investigations that might damage themselves . |
| 27 | Graham , the doubter who would not vote for the local Conservative MP , had even expressed indifference about the Russians taking over South Africa . |
| 28 | One night I dreamt about it : about the dog going over to look at it , as it sometimes did , and instead of sniffing it and walking away , it tore open the anus and started to pull out the innards . |
| 29 | ‘ Is it meaner than a place so foul that you ca n't bear to touch your own skin except to brush off the things crawling over you ? ’ |
| 30 | It was after the NCB took over and he was told straight that he was t'pack in . |