Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [noun] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | So one of my giants saunters over and kicks the two miserable chickens into positions suitable for having their shoes and trousers pulled off . |
| 2 | oh yeah bu you see , er er , you 're not supposed to life anything for if one of my grandsons falls over , the first thing you do is pick him up you know ! |
| 3 | He 's an older man and maybe an easier since he had me galloping the best of my horses lame over you , Owen . |
| 4 | Any county council that can not find elbow room within a £600 million-plus budget to look after its old people 's homes should stand aside and let some of my colleagues take over . |
| 5 | They are offered smaller discounts than the purchasing moguls of companies , and are viewed with distaste in garages because of their tendency to quibble over bills or wonder whether they really need new tyres . |
| 6 | They was t that tried to be the strike breakers and there was several of their buses turned over you 've probably read that have you in the |
| 7 | Today , most high street shops use photographs of their clothes to win over customers but in the early Seventies , the concept was startlingly new and original and Jane 's work was highly acclaimed by other professionals . |
| 8 | THE Prime Minister and the caterer , Clare Latimer , were yesterday given a public apology and undisclosed damages in the first round of their libel claims over allegations of an affair between them . |
| 9 | The 15 most heavily indebted developing countries ( see p. 37017 ) in 1988 as a group increased the surplus of their merchandise exports over their imports to nearly dollars 28,000 million ; the dollar value of their exports rose above the 1981 peak for the first time since the onset of the Third-World debt service problem , although the GATT report pointed out that this trade performance needed to be seen against the background of rising interest charges and continued lack of fresh capital inflows . |
| 10 | The main opposition party , the right-wing Community party ( Atassut ) , lost three seats , leaving it with eight , as some of its support went over to the Centre Party , which entered the legislature for the first time with two seats . |
| 11 | As said , all the District Councillors are opposed to it , I 'm opposed to it , and there 's very clear cut Highways Authority reasons for refusing , but in spite of that District Council seems to be going out of its way to bend over backwards and , and help the , the applicants for some reason or another , presumably to get this thing through . |
| 12 | Sun Microsystems Inc management estimates it is spending 10%-15% of its revenues moving over to Unix SVR4 : that must mean , that when the exercise is over , it will be rolling in cash . |
| 13 | She has n't exchanged two civil words with him since we left Kinsai , and the fact that he lets most of her insults pass over his head just makes matters worse . ’ |
| 14 | Back in bed , breakfast tray on her knees , slowly and attentively she poured out a cup of tea , the cuffs of her nightdress drooping over her hands . |
| 15 | She was on the point of ordering some of her people to hurry over to Acropolis Park to call in person , when one of her more canny officers , who had lost no time in searching the sector , arrived back at the Club . |
| 16 | Twisting her face away from that steady regard , she stared unseeingly into the hot blue distance , glad of her hat to pull over her eyes . |
| 17 | By 1969 Laura was spending much of her time poring over old books — the endpapers of novels were a rich source of small prints as were old plates , teapots , and patchwork quilts , in fact anything that caught her eye in a variety of odd shops . |
| 18 | The receiver will be obliged at the end of his receivership to hand over to the company any documents belonging to the company but not those brought into existence for the discharge of his own professional duties or his duties to the chargee . |
| 19 | Sitting there , stroking her , the ball of his thumb soothing over and over but never so long in one place that he made her hand sore , he let his voice caress her into sleep whose dream-depths crushed her in peacock and navy . |
| 20 | Only after that will he turn the remaining details of his zombi control over to us for the final phase on the island . |
| 21 | One of his training runs over a mile was timed at 4 minutes 9.8 seconds but the absence of opposition and official timekeepers rendered the mark unofficial . |
| 22 | But even as she made to turn away , his arms slid around her and she closed her eyes to everything but the sheer beauty of his kiss , the exquisite torture of his lips moving over her own , the hard strength of his body pressed against hers . |
| 23 | Paige arched into that possessive caress , then watched helplessly as he lowered his head and the moist warmth of his mouth closed over one thrusting peak , tongue teasing the nipple into a hard nub that he suckled until she cried out . |
| 24 | Her chin was tilted up , and the coolness of his mouth moved over her lips , then returned with increased pressure , full and hard … |
| 25 | Pippin eluded him ( though some of his followers came over to Charles ) . |
| 26 | Commonwealth bantamweight champion Johnny Armour needed four stitches in cut sustained on his left eye in the later stages of his points win over rugged Algerian Boualem Belkif and is unlikely to fight again until September . |