Example sentences of "[vb pp] over for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A cheque for £3,017 was handed over for the Great Ormond Street Hospital . |
| 2 | That would mean she could buy eggs for supper and pay something on the grocery bill and have enough left over for the vet . |
| 3 | Although Microsoft Corp is currently gorging itself on Intel Corp iAPX-86 platforms with its Windows desktop environment — and Windows NT will follow — there are still expected to be some rich pickings left over for the gaggle of hopefuls which are working on desktop Unix implementations for the architecture , which will soon include the new P5 80586 iteration when it arrives . |
| 4 | One 's grant disappeared into a bottomless sea of cigarettes and beer with hardly enough left over for the books we were meant to read . |
| 5 | Women were remarking on the window hangings — ‘ You could hang my whole downstairs with one of those red curtains , ’ said Mary McCulloch , ‘ and have a length left over for the beds . ’ |
| 6 | Open field sites in the vicinity of London were taken over for the construction of studios in the belief that it was heaps of brick and iron rather than organizational flair that explained the success of Louis B. Mayer or Samuel Goldwyn . |
| 7 | However , Frogmarsh Mill 's long involvement in the cloth trade was drawing to a close , for by 1863 it had been taken over for the manufacture of pins by the firm of Perkins , Critchley and Marmont . |
| 8 | In fact , 32 houses , 3 churches and 2 gardens were taken over for the building of the Clementinum or Jesuit College . |
| 9 | Having changed from sweat-sodden clothes , I found that , as the hotel had been taken over for the evening by a wedding party , I and an English couple had a dining-room to ourselves . |
| 10 | Stone is reported to have been unhappy at being passed over for the DEC presidency . |
| 11 | Although Clinton 's campaign chairman , Mickey Kantor , was among the transition team , he was passed over for the leadership after negative press reports and reservations from within the Clinton camp concerning his style and his role as a prominent lobbyist . |
| 12 | ‘ Did she resent being passed over for the post ? ’ |
| 13 | Coleridge 's letter of 22 July 1797 to Tom Poole , asking that ‘ a fore quarter of Lamb ’ be sent over for the Alfoxden housewarming |