Example sentences of "[to-vb] over the [noun pl] and " in BNC.
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1 | The boys were waiting to cross the road here and the horse came down this lane , galloped straight across the road in front of the traffic then onto the pavement , tried to jump over the boys and jumped onto the boys . |
2 | You think the fans are going to jump over the fences and grab you . |
3 | The Company has continued to flourish over the years and Edenderry now has a thriving Company Section and Junior Section . |
4 | People that go to Comdex do n't rate Unix , the twice-yearly technology poll conducted by Byte magazine among attendees seems to suggest — and IBM Corp still has an uphill fight to win over the hearts and minds that are presently in the Microsoft Corp camp . |
5 | Courses tend to accommodate all these categories of biological , social , and political experience under the idealized name of ‘ women ’ , and to gloss over the differences and overlaps between them . |
6 | Now they 're honour-bound to watch over the crops and the livestock and ward off ghosts and evil forces . |
7 | ‘ Success comes to the common man , and even to commonplace ability ; but to triumph over the calamities and terrors of mortal life is the part of a great man only . |
8 | Waggle the joystick to move over the flames and stop to be dropped . |
9 | But however good their upbringing , young people are still free to throw over the controls and act in a selfish and destructive way . |
10 | In the 1880s Salisbury 's ‘ enemy ’ had been ‘ radical Liberalism ’ and his aim to bring over the Whigs and ‘ Villa ’ Liberals . |
11 | Instead , there will be attempts to paper over the chasms and put on a united front for the sake of appearances . |