Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too close and you get swept over the edge except that they usually have some sort of wire-mesh barrier to stop you at the last moment . |
| 2 | There is evidence to suggest that many corporations do not have an organizational structure and process that allow the lateral integration of marketing , research , design engineering , financing and manufacturing for the successful conclusion of their business enterprises ; in these organizations , ideas get thrown over the wall rather than worked on collaboratively . |
| 3 | People 's eating habits and food preferences are learned ; they are habits that become ingrained over a period of years . |
| 4 | I 've pondered over a couple of the things . |
| 5 | " We 've come over the heather , " he said . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've got nothing to show for what I 've won over the years , ’ a distraught Florrie said . |
| 7 | I 've looked over the shoulder at a few of these and they are obviously not the sort of thing , that you came sliding out of your mother 's womb knowing how to do . |
| 8 | They tell me if I walk in a certain direction for an hour I 'll come across a road and by the time I set my watch and compass they 've vanished over the dunes . |
| 9 | No , I do n't get bored at all with it , er because snooker is not er like American pool , where you go out there with a stick and just knock balls all over the table ; snooker is snooker , and the name of snooker is to play this , you know , this game of chess on the green baize , and er that 's what , you see this is where Davis has been so good for so long , a ) he 's a supreme professional , he once apologised for only practising for two hours on Christmas Day rather than four , er and if you look at Davis ' score sheets and his matches , which I 've done over the years , you 'll see a lot of breaks of around sort of fifty five , sixty , sixty five , and then he stops , he plays the safety shot and says to his opponent ‘ okay , your turn ’ , plays the percentage game , the occasional knock in the very big ones , but that 's why he 's won so much , because he thinks it out so well , and knows the averages , knows the percentages and plays the game that way . |
| 10 | I 've noticed over the years that the violent attacks are changing subtly . |
| 11 | The thing I do n't like about this amendment is it actually moves us nowhere and we can not after what we 've seen over the summer , move nowhere . |
| 12 | I guess erm with all the contacts you 've made over the years you 're still gon na have phone calls from people to say er what deal have you got for me this week or whatever ? |
| 13 | ‘ I suppose we 've mellowed over the years , ’ said Iain . |
| 14 | Anyway , when he , when he came back again we had to come back cos see we had another delivery of gravel and we ordered three yards and we reckon that on the last journey we bought two yards , we 've got over a yard too much gravel ! |
| 15 | When they 've got over the shock , most are mainly concerned for their daughters ' welfare , and give them a lot of support , as illustrated many times in the accounts that follow . |
| 16 | I 've got over the shock . |
| 17 | I 've got over the need to sleep . |
| 18 | We want a change from the feudal tenure we 've had over the years . |
| 19 | ‘ You know the trouble we 've had over the years with MPs ’ secretaries ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I realised in this day and age that people are looking for something that wee bit different , and we found with the long spell of bad weather we 've had over the summer months that people want to stay inside , ’ explained Mr Nelson . |
| 21 | I have included here a planning chart for small conferences which has served as a basis for hundreds of other charts I 've used over the years . |
| 22 | For , ‘ While there 's a lot we have n't touched on yet — no visit to Prague is complete until you 've walked over the Charles Bridge , ’ Ven told her . |
| 23 | But I am determined to fight back , and where I think that they 've gone over the top , I 'll take them to court . |
| 24 | and see how we 've gone over the year . |
| 25 | They 've gone over the excavations and into the meadow — ‘ |
| 26 | I might have checked out the financial aspects of buying into the station , but one thing I 've learned over the years is that you can never do too much research . |
| 27 | I 've been , I 've came over the handlebars , Ian came over the handlebars with the bikes , so it is rough terrain |
| 28 | A towel that I 've put over the radiator to get warm so I can wrap it cosily round myself and hug myself dry . |
| 29 | I 've discovered over the years that if my hair is all right , then generally speaking , so am I. I also notice as the years lurch by , and I would n't dream of telling anyone but you , that my mother was right . |
| 30 | that 's Yeah I , I 've lost over a stone now . |