Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] over [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does my right hon. Friend accept what is becoming obvious by now — that many of his hon. Friends , and Members in all parts of the House , have no wish or even thought that he should resign over this issue , or that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister should see fit to accept his resignation ? |
| 2 | When he says , ‘ I must give over this life ’ , you know he wo n't . |
| 3 | The rebels had apparently dropped an earlier insistence that the UN should take over main government ministries until elections . |
| 4 | This is the effect of a recent House of Lords ' ruling that Spicer & Oppenheim , the former auditors of Atlantic Computers , must hand over further documentation to the administrators of Atlantic 's parent company , British & Commonwealth Holdings plc . |
| 5 | ‘ In that case you must come over some time and let me show you around . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've a feeling we 'll scramble over that hurdle , ’ Matt said drily . |
| 7 | ‘ I expect I 'll walk over this way every day anyway , and if he does come on Saturday could Archie be here , please , to take him down with his bags to the cottage ? ’ |
| 8 | I 'll get over this setback . ’ |
| 9 | Through the window he could see over grey slate roofs across the bay to Newlyn , a mound of little houses behind its quays and boats and sheds . |
| 10 | She supposed she 'd take over that duty , which possibly would make her unpopular back in the lab . |
| 11 | It was suggested that Library staff could take over this function , since they are scanning the journals in any case , and the work would lend itself to the eventual creation of an image database , but Library staff shortages have made it impossible to undertake this work systematically . |
| 12 | ‘ She deliberately kept us in the dark because she wanted to prove that she could get over this monster barrier of performing live on her own . |
| 13 | But he would be the alley-fighter who could argue over modern philosophy and quote the poets of the Augustan age . |
| 14 | ‘ Let's go over next year , shall we , George ? |
| 15 | Another refinement and contrast between the council tax and Labour 's rates policy is the control , or lack of it , that Labour would exercise over excessive spending levels . |
| 16 | At the end of the three years Tom would begin to pay rent — a fair rent — for the lands he farmed and would take over all farm buildings , implements and stock . |
| 17 | This attitude became institutionalised in Virgin through the ritual of the staff outing , in which the company would take over some holiday hotel for three or four days of high jinks . |
| 18 | This would protect the holdings against a future decline of the dollar , but at the cost of pushing the risk on to the United States if it were required to compensate the IMF ( which would take over these dollar holdings ) for any losses . |
| 19 | The NPKC , he said , would hand over administrative authority to an interim government within a week . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , the Report estimated that the proportion of dependents who were elderly would increase over that period from 12 per cent to nearly a third by 1979 . |
| 21 | All its problems arise directly from the political situation from which it springs , from the urgent need felt by the Government to distance themselves from the poll tax and the equal need to placate those internal supporters of the poll tax who will choke over any support for a property tax . |
| 22 | The likely terms of the split are that Solvay will take over sole ownership of Interox , the price being Laporte 's takeover of the organics and persulphates and cancellation or sale of most of Solvay 's shareholding in Laporte . |
| 23 | From 1 April the DoT will take over direct responsibility for the major repair work of inspecting the underside of the viaducts , where important structural defects have appeared . |
| 24 | The last patient will leave Over next week . |
| 25 | Consequently mist will form over low ground and patchy fog can be expected before the night is out . |
| 26 | 200 children may sue over tainted blood . |
| 27 | The community can unite over that proposition while disagreeing about which alternative would be more and which less just . |
| 28 | So , providing you say yes there will be occasions when the machine can take over some sort of part of the teacher 's role , then fair enough , yes , but I think one of the interesting ways in which computers are used at the present time , particularly again in the primary school , is as orchestrators of group work . |
| 29 | The TR-1 can fly over friendly territory , using the radar to detect objects on the other side of the border . |
| 30 | and you can turn over one way or you can turn over the other way . |