Example sentences of "over at [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Greece , Spain , Portugal and Ireland were won over at a meeting of Environment Ministers by promises that the tax will be levied only on energy use or carbon dioxide emissions above a threshold value linked to the community average .
2 During April 1856 , after a period when , it seems , no head dresser was overseeing , his son John took over at a rate of about £5 : 4s. : 0d. , which figure was apparently dependent upon the weather .
3 She looked over at the pile of burned clothing she had shed like a snake 's skin , and shuddered .
4 Only his rash brother , the Lord Edward , forced him to it , ’ and he glanced over at the Earl of Carrick , the said Lord Edward Bruce 's second son , who had now deemed it judicious to desert the Balliol cause .
5 I was , I was off on , on Sunday , I mean I 've joined yet another marriage agency , off on last Sunday to Latherham , with another nice old chap , you know , erm , I , I go out with erm , women friends , we , I 've arranged , er there 's one very , very good place that does lunches , run by a couple of homosexuals and erm , old age pensioners on Tuesday get , get a lunch , an eight pound lunch , for four pounds , so four friends , three friends and myself are going for a special Christmas lunch that they do , fortnight ago we went for a lunch with the group of the town 's women 's guild and friends , erm , my women 's group that I belong to over at the village of which is run by the television actress er Helen Fraser
6 In the main changes , Nohemí Sanín Posada de Rubio ( PSC ) , formerly ambassador to Venezuela , became the first woman to be appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs ( replacing Luís Fernando Jaramillo Correa , who became permanent representative at the UN ) ; Jorge Ospina Sardi ( NFD ) , the former National Planning Director , became Minister of Economic Development , replacing Ernesto Samper Pizano ( PL ) , who was switched to the newly created Ministry of Foreign Trade ; Alfonso López Caballero ( PL ) , formerly ambassador to France , was given Agriculture ; Carlos Holmes Trujillo García ( PL ) , mayor of Calí , became Minister of Education ; Mauricio Vargas Linares ( PL ) , the president 's media adviser , took over at the Ministry of Communications ; and Juan Camilo Restrepo was given Mines and Energy .
7 Meanwhile over at The Theatre in Chipping Norton Mother Goose has found a novel way of beating the recession .
8 took over at the top of the second division after they Cleveland 2–0 with a goal in each half by Colin Howey .
9 And the tall tree arched over at the top in a graceful curve like a shepherd 's crook , as if it were looking down to admire itself .
10 R. A. Butler , who took over at the Board in 1941 , warned about this major point .
11 But as it was Dod , I took my fifty quid and free ploughman 's lunches ( not that Canning Town 's seen a ploughman since Shakespeare packed 'em in over at the Globe in Southwark ) and we humped boxes and sat in traffic jams and set the world to rights .
12 In addition , checks by waste disposal authorities are almost impossible to effect , owing to the fact that lorry loads of waste arrive on site every few minutes , are dumped and the tip is covered over at the end of the day .
13 We finally realised that even on our meagre sum we could avoid having too much month left over at the end of our money .
14 ‘ You may take whatever is left over at the end of each day .
15 That bar in the illustration , had to be lifted up and over at the end of each row to deposit the stitches on to the needles — a great opportunity to drop stitches , which I did most of the time !
16 The newly-appointed C E O , Gary who took over at the end of the year when Gill retired has been very involved in these restructuring efforts and has been working very effectively and is on top of the situation , and although three swallows may not make a summer , I can at least tell you that Camco has traded profitably in each of the first three months of nineteen ninety three and now I 'd like to hand you over to Frank , who will talk about the rest of our business .
17 A person who holds over at the end of a lease is not a trespasser until demand is made , as only the person in possession can be trespassed against ( Hey v Moorhouse ( 1839 ) 6 Bing NC 52 ) .
18 Because the thing he produced eventually , it fell over at the end of the day
19 ‘ Our mothers and fathers will be coming over at the end of the summer for the presentation of prizes . ’
20 It is therefore particularly fitting that it is a charity associated with the teaching profession hat takes some of the books left over at the end of the sale to ‘ sent to countries in dire need ’ , as Lewis Romanis , former Headmaster of Boroughmuir School , put it in his gracious thank-you letter .
21 Yeah I mean if you get erm , I 'll tell you what actually , because it 's a two hour slot I can in one slot get them to y'know and th we 're not in a great hurry cos there 's usually a few spaces left over at the end of the term .
22 As controller of the Audit Commission before taking over at the helm of the CBI last year , Mr Davies said he had first had experience of the Government 's approach to industry and commerce .
23 Jeremy joined us as a Fellow of the Association with a long and distinguished career in the industryand took over at the helm of a dedicated and well-motivated teamat Trinity Road .
24 In that scenario , the provisional supposition would be that Morgan would take over at the helm from Ian McGeechan , with David Johnston and Richie Dixon as his assistant coaches .
25 We require a new trainee Honorary Treasurer to take over at the A.G.M. in April .
26 There is also a collection of Wycliff 's writings brought over at the time of England 's Queen Anne .
27 Indeed in one of the few Scottish studies McDonald ( 1991 ) defines ‘ non-traditional ’ students as all those who are 21 or over at the time of entry to their higher education course .
28 For mature students ( those 21 years of age and over at the time of entry ) the relationship was particularly weak .
29 Icebergs are notoriously unstable , and may flip over at the touch of a careless finger or the thump of a careless boot .
30 And Lyon settled the issue in the 72nd minute when he crashed over at the corner for the match-clinching try .
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