Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hi I 'll just just show you what er well Kerry 'll 'll show you she knows what er what we 're what you 're going to do over the next day or so do n't you . |
| 2 | These these are a measure are n't they they 're a measure of the quality of what we 're going to do over the next two days and therefore I will come back to these tomorrow afternoon I will check through them and if everybody can say yes yes I 'm satisfied with that then we 've achieved what we set out to achieve today . |
| 3 | Okay then let me just by way of er introduction er to the concepts and the content of what we 're going to do over the next two days let me just put a very small fraction of a picture up here . |
| 4 | He knew the cruelty she was going to witness over the next three months would be agony for her because , for some reason , she trusted animals far more than humans , but , like a nurse looking after animals in a vivisection clinic , he could n't prevent her pain , only alleviate it as much as possible . |
| 5 | There is dampness here too , and in some of the rooms the ceiling has fallen in , the plaster and lath lying draped over the heavy , old-fashioned furniture like some clumsy travesty of a dust-sheet . |
| 6 | At bottom this division is based on the fact that he is at one and the same time part of the natural order — along with the elements , plants and animals — yet also a spiritual and personal being who feels a destiny and calling to rule over the natural world . |
| 7 | By the time they had been to make-up , and tramped back up the stairs to have another drink , a definite uneasiness was beginning to settle over the whole company . |
| 8 | But with the Government 's popularity having plunged over the past 11 months , he may have a struggle on his hands to beat off the Liberal Democrats , who were runners-up in Newbury last April . |
| 9 | Apart from having to go over the unpleasant details of Froggy 's death yet again , I had a nasty feeling that Inspector Drew 's bright and suspicious eyes masked darker ideas about my role in Froggy 's murder . |
| 10 | The second one : having got over the actual evacuation and the idea that I probably would n't ever see my mother again , being evacuated in itself was great . |
| 11 | Having got over the bad luck at the 6th we went on to a 69 . |
| 12 | Emphasising the futility of filling up a large sheet of cartridge paper the size of a drawing board with the object you are drawing , irrespective of its proximity , Sickert insisted on the importance of never sketching the figure and the background separately , and once having gone over the original drawing faintly in outline , to put in the shadows with the side of the point of the pencil . |
| 13 | It 's er gon na be with us a fortnight tomorrow is n't it really , and I wonder if you 've got people coming to stay over the festive season , and I wonder if you 're looking forward to it ? |
| 14 | Mrs Copeland pointed out that Bangor is a designated ‘ growth centre ’ , its population having doubled over the past 25 years . |
| 15 | Of course , I had my dreams , like all young girls , of a tall , dark and handsome man coming striding over the fell one day to claim me as his own . |
| 16 | I have a lot of thinking to do over the next couple of months . |
| 17 | The Lightweight club were hoping to bring over the new John Player Norton team to Kirkistown but because of problems with rules they were n't able to do so . |
| 18 | How many re-fitted stores have you got now then how many are you planning to re-fit over the next year ? |