Example sentences of "[subord] [art] [noun pl] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walk out on to the great parade-ground beyond , where the grandstands left over from Trooping the Colour are still displacing the more usual arrangements for Trooping the Parked Cars . |
| 2 | It was a memorable flight because the wings iced over , forcing the pilot to dive , and left Lord Aldington feeling that ‘ we came close to death ’ . |
| 3 | We 've closed the road off while the boys go over the area . |
| 4 | The whole hall is convulsed to see children elbowed out of the way while the adults take over skipping ropes and doubledutch , 1920s style , fills the screen . |
| 5 | The hind legs have to mark time while the forelegs cross over , making the outer ring of a wheel . |
| 6 | The Soviet Union has made great strides since the advent of socialism in 1917 and China has achieved a remarkable increase in prosperity in the years since the communists took over . |
| 7 | Christian churches throughout Jerusalem , Israel proper and the occupied territories took the unprecedented step of closing in protest for the whole day of April 27 , and the controversy encouraged an improvement in relations between the normally conservative Greek Orthodox community and Palestinian Christians ; the Middle East International of April 27 reported that , soon after the Jews took over the hospice , a Palestinian flag had been raised on a nearby Greek Orthodox Church . |
| 8 | Echo was unclear whether the programs shifted over were System 7 or System 3 based . |
| 9 | The Cymbalines , on the other hand , are the sort of boys you could take home to your parents along with their jangly , tuneful brand of guitar pop as-it-used-to-be-played before the hairies took over . |
| 10 | She looked back and saw the man stop dithering before the houses , and cross further up the street , just before the cars took over again . |
| 11 | This latter influence became more pronounced when the Britons took over the George Shanks version of the Protocols , entitled The Jewish Peril , in 1920 , and published the Victor Marsden version , World Conquest through World Government , in 1921 . |
| 12 | Specially when the instructors come over and they 're sort of sitting watching as well . |
| 13 | One of them said : ‘ When the Communists took over after the war , some of the Fascists became the best Stalinists of all . |
| 14 | When the communists took over in 1945 , they were determined to industrialize and , at first , to eliminate the private peasants . |
| 15 | Started by the local Labour council , the plans were cancelled on financial grounds when the Tories took over , but building was allowed to continue after negotiations to sell the site fell through . |
| 16 | It 's all done up in steel pins and scaffolding to hold it up , and I once saw a computer thing in a museum showing how it shudders when the trains go over . |
| 17 | All the mothers raced for their Volvos as the players struggled over to another part of the field . |
| 18 | Smarten up your act or we might just stop buying British , as the Europeans take over our high streets offering us fashions with a much better image , manufactured to a much higher standard . |
| 19 | AS THE arguments rage over whether Nigel Mansell will return to Formula One , a New Zealander who nurtured the career of Mansell 's rival Ayrton Senna fears Britain may never produce a Formula One champion again . |
| 20 | The lack of progress in signing a Union Treaty was a severe blow to Gorbachev , who was increasingly isolated as the republics took over more powers . |
| 21 | Bernice asked , as the ants swarmed over their prey . |
| 22 | In my excited state , as the trees close over my head , I see this kind of thinking , this desire to reshape the world into something reassuring , as having many applications . |
| 23 | Moses and Monotheism , the last book which Freud published , appeared after he arrived in London in the summer of 1938 , having left Vienna as the Nazis took over . |
| 24 | As the guests poured over in boats to Mr. Pocklington 's island , by invitation , their landing was saluted by a discharge of artillery . |