Example sentences of "they [verb] over the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But iff you actually allow B R as an organization to bid , I think it 's making a nonsense of privatization because you 're saying in essence there is n't anything wrong with B R management at the moment and we 'll let them take over the network . |
| 2 | But , if the supporters are agreed on the principle of rotation , they disagree over the detail . |
| 3 | They climb over the fence , and knock at the next-door maisonette . |
| 4 | Which may not rank the outsiders in the eyes of the Ladbrokes odds-maker , but if they look over the fence they will certainly be able to see the outsiders from where they have been placed . |
| 5 | Until 1948 the British ruled Palestine , but on 15th May that year the British mandate came to an end , and they handed over the country to the Jews . |
| 6 | Not so long as they handed over the pound notes — though smiling Clyde took most of those , the greedy sod . |
| 7 | The exterior surface of most ammonoids is covered with ribbing — dense on some species , sparse on others — the ribs often split into two or more smaller ribs as they pass over the back of the whorls . |
| 8 | If you can get so close to barbel , with or without them knowing it , you should take the opportunity to study how they use the available cover to sneak under ; how they move like silent wraiths across the bottom , and how they rake over the gravel on the bottom with their barbules . |
| 9 | If you open you 've got gangs of young lads patrolling the town , even with whips and if they get over the door you 've had it . |
| 10 | If you open you 've got gangs of young lads patrolling the town , even with whips and if they get over the door you 've had it . |
| 11 | One of the features of the course is surveying , they tramp over the moor with a theodolite , a staff , surveying poles , and packed lunch , looking for other ley lines . |
| 12 | In the end , whether applicants have their experiential learning counted in the admissions process , or whether students go on expanding the degree of influence they exercise over the curriculum , will be up to them . |
| 13 | They rule over the party and lead all the games . |
| 14 | But sometimes they go over the top with tricks to get you to buy . |
| 15 | Occasionally and inevitably they go over the top — but that 's in the nature of risk . |
| 16 | They took over the lunch clubs . |
| 17 | I mean we could never have paid for all those tyres and when I retired the erm , they actually had a tyre fitter supplied and paid for by they were the , they took over the whole of the tyre maintenance , they had a tyre fitter down there and he used to go up to depot , change any tyres over there that were necessary , he inspected them each day and changed them over but of course he was notifying erm at the same time . |
| 18 | They took over the mill in Bourton in 1840 , other members of the family running Lower Slaughter . |
| 19 | These new plants could regenerate quickly , so they took over the ecosystem . |
| 20 | But when they took over the firm they were always called " Mister " to distinguish them from the other captains , perhaps . |
| 21 | to become building-mates with Leo Castelli and Ileana Sonnabend at 420 West Broadway ( they took over the floor lately occupied by the now defunct 47th Parallel Gallery ) . |
| 22 | They took over the farm at Blind Beck and Willie pioneered the collection of milk throughout the whole dale . |
| 23 | They took over the wool shop next door to expand their stock and the surprisingly large upstairs restaurant , now spread over both stores , has attracted well-known food critics to this outof-the-way location . |
| 24 | The first is that the land around the Arnish site was owned by the Stornoway Trust , an elected body who received an undertaking from the subsidiary of Olsen Shipping when they took over the site , that only essential maintenance would be carried out on Sundays . |
| 25 | The sudden roar as they sweep over the horizon is part of life in this otherwise quiet stretch of countryside-often alarming enough to send children into bursts of frightened tears . |
| 26 | They scuttle over the floor . |
| 27 | Why then do their minds go blank as soon as they turn over the question paper ? |
| 28 | This pattern is made not only by the dancers ' feet as they move over the surface but also by the dancers ' bodies as they move through space . |
| 29 | These worms have large buccal capsules and feed by ingestion of plugs of mucosa as they move over the surface of the intestine . |
| 30 | They bring back tales which they relate over the dinner table at Blackfriars . ’ |