Example sentences of "to go over the " in BNC.
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1 | The latest proposals coincided with yet another summer of delays as tourist traffic queued to go over the sea to Skye . |
2 | The boots are finished with a long , broad ribbon that is wrapped around the ankle , being raised to go over the join of boot and trouser if there is a danger of wet snow going down inside . |
3 | ‘ I 'd like to go over the house , ’ he said , ‘ only breaking and entering 's not in my line . |
4 | Resisting the temptation to go over the top with innovation ( suspension is coils and dampers not hydropneumatic ) , the designers have still managed to introduce some novelties . |
5 | Make a latticed frame to go over the fire and put the trout on it or otherwise hang them over the smoke , and if possible cover it all with branches of more leaves to keep the smoke inside . |
6 | ‘ I do n't want to go over the machine , ’ said Evelyn . |
7 | Within the next 20–25 years Anglian expects another nine supplies to go over the limit . |
8 | Morale always rose after a struggle ; I would never have to go over the same ground again . |
9 | So , you see , it 's no use trying to go over the agent 's head . ’ |
10 | Because it takes so long for blood alcohol levels to fall , it 's easy for someone who drinks ‘ modestly ’ at lunch time and after work to go over the limit , even though he may take only four units on each occasion . |
11 | They did a first class piece of work on where the housing market was likely to go over the next 10 years . |
12 | It is not a good idea to go over the natural lipline — it usually looks false . |
13 | I once made a very pretty montage of framed pictures for a friend to go over the bed which , when assembled , made a rectangle as wide as the bed and about 60cm ( 2ft ) high . |
14 | Here , she was ‘ commanded in her heart ’ to go over the sea with her daughter , who was not at all pleased : ‘ there was no one so much against her as her daughter , who ought most to have been with her ’ . |
15 | ‘ Then you 'll have to go over the heads of the military and Sir Martin , for he 's thinking of using this house as a convalescent base for officers . ’ |
16 | As in the past , the students would be the ones to go over the brink , encouraged and inspired by the ‘ freer ’ intellectual environment of 1986 . |
17 | ‘ I tried to go over the fiction I 'd done , pull out the subtext and put it in a form that you could give to an audience at a world 's fair at the end of the century . |
18 | You can , however , simply cast off when using this band for a V-neck , as V-necks are sufficiently large to go over the head easily . |
19 | This lady must have been psychic or something , because in no time at all she was asking if I could enlarge necks on jumpers that other people had made too small to go over the head . |
20 | He says : ‘ If you 're going to go over the top on me you 've got to put me out of the game because I 'll be coming back for you . ’ |
21 | Thus rather than adopting the language of coercion and hence drawing parallels between corporate officials and , say , soldiers at the front in World War I compelled to go over the top at dawn to meet the German machine-gun bullets or be shot as ‘ deserters ’ , it might be more realistic to argue that corporate officials are frequently placed in a position where they are required to choose between impairing their career chances or being a loyal organizational person . |
22 | You may think you are a good enough driver to go over the speed limit , but you may also realise that a world in which everyone drove very fast might be a little on the dangerous side . |
23 | Be careful not to go over the edge of the image . |
24 | Apart from having to go over the unpleasant details of Froggy 's death yet again , I had a nasty feeling that Inspector Drew 's bright and suspicious eyes masked darker ideas about my role in Froggy 's murder . |
25 | That said , Personal Finance Manager will help you keep track of where your money is going to go over the course of the year . |
26 | Dozzell becomes only the eighth player to go over the 400 mark for the club . |
27 | It is surprising how many people waste their time in class by not concentrating , and then have to go over the same ground again at home . |
28 | In the end they had to go over the Bishop 's head , obtaining the authorization they wanted from the Pope . |
29 | And even though it was obvious to many before the 1982 ballot that the miners were not ready to go over the barricades for a pay rise , the Left leadership could n't think its way out of its own economism . |
30 | The previous week , Virgin had requested immediate permission to go over the facility by some £200,000 , to meet short-term outgoings for the airline ( to pay , in fact , for the engine which had expired on the air-operator 's test flight ) . |