Example sentences of "[vb -s] over [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They embrace , then separate , and one goes over to a woman in the crowd with a child cradled in her arms . |
| 2 | He takes over at a time when latest figures show Gloucestershire with the fasting rising crime rate in the country . |
| 3 | Mr Clerides takes over at a time when the international community is showing impatience with lack of progress towards a Cyprus settlement . |
| 4 | Tom walks over to a pizza stall , looking as at home here as a row of tulips in the Gobi Desert . |
| 5 | Well you were just talking about children erm my feeling is that we 're all children , there is no division between being a child and an adult and I think that they can accept a whole lot , but there 's a whole lot of adults that ca n't accept the shocks that are happening today and they put them into their subconscious and unfortunately it comes out in so many other ways — it comes over as a neurosis or as a mental disorder at some later date . |
| 6 | The spontaneous self-confidence of her writing voice , when you first discover it , comes over as a triumph of the human spirit — but also as a terrible indictment of the society that makes such a voice so rare , so virtually impossible . |
| 7 | Alfred Molina 's Shannon comes over as an assemblage of mannerisms rather than a man whose behaviour arises from dissipation and anguish ; Frances Barber is too young , too wiry and too busy for the over-ripe Maxine ; Robin Bailey , though he believably slips in and out of awareness , is too sturdy for the ancient poet , and he sounds and gestures just like colonel Hall on Sergeant Bilko . |
| 8 | So I think the communications department wanted to pull together all of these issues , and make sure that we hear your voice effectively , we represent it effectively and that , the sense in which N C V O comes over as an organisation is more appropriately presented and projected in all the many different spheres in which we 're currently operating . |