Example sentences of "go over the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lawyers for Virgin and BA were working into the night , going over the small print of an agreement which could cost BA up to £10 million . |
| 2 | The rug should then be carefully and systematically dried , making sure that there are no pockets of dampness in either the foundation or pile , by leaving it out in the sun and then methodically going over the entire area , both back and front , with a hand-held hair dryer . |
| 3 | Two weeks later , on the morning of the auction , a determined knock on the door sent Cissie flying headlong down the hallway from the kitchen , with Beth in close pursuit ; young Richard was already upstairs with his newly appointed day-tutor , and David was closeted in the den with Luther , going over the final details for the auction . |
| 4 | I ca n't remember the cost but you need to buy a plastic pump and a large bottle of the solution , it 'll last for ages and a good going over the whole house once a month will probably be your best bet . |
| 5 | They learn a lot more at my talks , even though I 'm just going over the very basics of the subject . |
| 6 | Police will be going over the old ground to see if there is any link with this latest attack . |
| 7 | I do n't make any apologies for that , and maybe it is going over the old ground , but unless we do it , unless we try to do it , if we 've done it the way before been and it has n't produced what we , what we want , then surely it 's not for us to sit back and say , ‘ Well , it 's been through that and it has n't worked ’ , surely we ought to try again , and that 's what I hope to be doing , sort of value your support and see you . |
| 8 | And er to avoid a collision and in fact I think they did strike but I 'm not really sure , but to avoid a collision this one then goes over the other side of the road , picks up this Ford Orion coming the over way , rolls it over the bank , and it goes underneath the tractive unit of the artic . |
| 9 | No , that goes over the other side of it , that 's the other corner . |
| 10 | In the vast majority of cases the exhaust pipe corrodes around the bend which goes over the rear axle on motor cars or that particular pipe breaks away from the end of the silencer . |
| 11 | This monorail goes around , it stops at the bo the bottom stage and it goes over the top stage . |
| 12 | This goes over the old arguments . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We have mentioned very little about harmonic paths in minor keys , but those with a sound harmonic upbringing will find it somewhat repetitive and superfluous to go over the whole ground again . |
| 15 | It is not a good idea to go over the natural lipline — it usually looks false . |
| 16 | Well I 'll go over the other side , Andrew . |
| 17 | To reach the mainland from Anglesey , vehicles must go over the Menai Bridge where any road barrier could not be avoided . |
| 18 | In the former , the speaker goes back over , or summarizes , the literal ( locutionary ) meaning of what has been said — and this is typically marked by phrases like ‘ I 'll just go over the main points again' . |
| 19 | it might be and I 'll go over the level crossing I 'll think , ooh that was a bit |
| 20 | If you 'd only taken my advice and gone over the other bridge — ’ |
| 21 | Emphasising the futility of filling up a large sheet of cartridge paper the size of a drawing board with the object you are drawing , irrespective of its proximity , Sickert insisted on the importance of never sketching the figure and the background separately , and once having gone over the original drawing faintly in outline , to put in the shadows with the side of the point of the pencil . |
| 22 | to keep her company in the house and she went over the other night she said because when the kids are in bed , she 's on her own |
| 23 | She went over the final quarrel with her father again and again , and left her present loves to fend for themselves . |
| 24 | and as we 're right up towards the end and now after the bank holiday we 've had lovely fine weather anyway , we got off to the main road and turned at Fibwell traffic lights onto the A twenty one and we got the to end of the dual carriageway onto the tail end of the queue as it started into the road works so I just went over the central reservation and went back down the dual carriageway to the traffic lights at |
| 25 | But someone needed her , and as she broke into a run , she went over the differential diagnosis of a faint in her mind . |
| 26 | He then climbed down again , and followed the coaxial cables across the roof to the point where they went over the rear wall of the building and in through one of the bedroom windows of the apartment next to his . |
| 27 | The goal came when a cross from the right went over the whole defence , and Frank was unmarked on the left , 7–8 yards out . |
| 28 | She went over the whole experience of first meeting her husband , their courtship and marriage and life together . |
| 29 | He went over the whole ground of Canterbury 's history from the beginning , enforcing the one simple message that Gregory the Great and his successors had committed to Canterbury the task of introducing and upholding the Christian faith throughout the whole of the British Isles . |
| 30 | Subsequently , the floods came down and went over the whole bridge , topping the rails , and it was a tribute to the efficiency of both its design and erection that the bridge withstood this successfully . |