Example sentences of "[v-ing] over [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a policeman could be so well endowed with it , despite the obvious difficulties and frustrations of his profession , the ordinary man or woman would surely be brimming over with a joke or two no matter what the occasion . |
| 2 | I raised with David Ingram at my JAR a matter which I 've been mulling over for a while , arising from my role as Welfare Officer . |
| 3 | Now , that obviously means , colleagues that we 're , we 're going over for a period of time , but we 're er slightly behind this afternoon , so certainly need to be trying to pull some work back . |
| 4 | The man looked round the bar before marching over to a group of men down at the end of the counter . |
| 5 | When the economics become right , when the petrol dries up , then the possibly of moving over from a gas based , petrol based , economy to hydrogen economy is a very real one , and of course again this is an exciting branch of inorganic chemistry which many people are looking at . |
| 6 | Emily , as a special treat , was staying over at a school-friend 's . |
| 7 | Not only did the sturdy lock crown a storming performance by bullocking over for a try in the final minute , he undoubtedly played himself into a Lions place . |
| 8 | He is coming over for a tour which culminates in the Edinburgh Festival , and he will be promoting both this and his third Easy Rawlins tale . |
| 9 | Okay Ron there are , thanks for coming over for a start , there are you 've got all the er the brochure and the er obviously the application form . |
| 10 | Rory Underwood stretched his record to 34 tries , diving over from a tap penalty move . |
| 11 | She had merely telephoned to let him know that she would be handing over to a girl called Kate . |
| 12 | Originally the rules linked the old and new owners with the land itself by the " delivery of seisin " , the handing over of a clod of earth on site . |
| 13 | Generally no stamp duty will be payable unless the conveyance is one on sale ( or taking over of a mortgage liability ) not resulting from a court order or agreement made in connection with the divorce ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 14 | It is also because she represents change : she is a woman taking over from a man who occupied the post for twenty-three years . |
| 15 | Obviously there are no simple solutions to a difficult relationship with a demanding parent , but it can often be kept ticking over on a mixture of kindness and firmness and a refusal on your part to come out of your corner for a fight every time she chooses to ring the bell . |
| 16 | Taking a chair , he set the camera up in the yard outside , bending over for a moment to fiddle with it . |
| 17 | To the extent that such approaches may suggest the desirability of changing over to a counter-force nuclear policy , they escape from the moral frying-pan of counter-city targeting into the strategic fire of counter-force , which has the twin disadvantages that it might put a premium on first strike and that it would in any case result in frightful civilian losses . |
| 18 | Farrar , in his fourth outing for the Central Park giants , notched a try in each half with Shaun Edwards also sweeping over for a couple . |
| 19 | and their new greenhouse leaning over like a tent |