Example sentences of "over in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stone carvings and whimsies had been plastered over in the nineteenth century , but some had now been uncovered . |
| 2 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 3 | I believe the young , young lady over in the other side , really told the truth , more of the truth than perhaps anyone else she said she liked it . |
| 4 | so I decided I 'd have a go in a factory , aha , and I come in it was over in the other place , the noise was unbelievable , really unbelievable . |
| 5 | I was dubious at first because since her illness Jennifer has become a very private person and I do n't think she would have liked all the hubbub over in the other section ; but here — ’ she glanced round at the softly decorated walls , the strategically placed water-colours and the subdued lighting ‘ — here , I think , could well be the answer . ’ |
| 6 | The general effect is taken over in the first red-figure ( fig. 87 ) ; but the black line which replaces incision is drawn with a brush , so by nature more malleable and fluid . |
| 7 | Racial tension boiled over in the inner city riots which spread across the nation in the " long hot summers " of 1965–7 . |
| 8 | It seemed all over in the 63rd minute when Clough , a few yards outside the penalty area , volleyed a headed clearance instantly into the roof of the net before Hardwick could move a muscle . |
| 9 | from Kingston to Lynn to Yarmouth the coast was strewn with wrecked vessels , cliffs had slipped into the sea and disappeared into the brown tide and over in the low-lying lands of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire the salt-waters swished and groped where no man remembered ever to have seen them before . |
| 10 | Glasgow High/Kelvinside are hopeful that Shade Munro 's prolonged absence will be over in the New Year . |
| 11 | His younger brother , Scott , took over in the second period with a series of his extra-special , last-gasp tackles which reminded one of Victorian melodrama . |
| 12 | We were a shot over in the second round and I began to wonder whether he would be mounting a serious challenge . |
| 13 | And newcomer Lesley Ottery , formerly with PowerGen , has taken over in the newly-created post of Director of Information Systems . |
| 14 | Around Remagen you cross from Westphalia into the Pfalz , the old Palatinate , so much fought over in the Thirty Years War . |
| 15 | We come therefore to synthesise the ideas I had tried to put over in the preceding chapters . |
| 16 | Though I must admit , we 'll be glad when it 's all over in the Far East and they can come back safe and sound . ’ |
| 17 | She was busy at the tap over in the far corner of the cemetery , filling the empty bottle she had brought with her from the house . |
| 18 | The collapse of the Empire in 1814 and the fall of Napoleon I brought about a dispersal of the Imperial House and although the return of Napoleon from Elba in 1815 led to a restoration of the family fortunes , it was all over in the Hundred Days . |
| 19 | Over in the blue tent ( the roof of which unceremoniously blew off on Sunday just prior to kick off ) the SMASHING PUMPKINS lived up to their name and managed to smash the MD of Hut Records , their record company , on the head with a flying guitar , courtesy of singer Billy Colgan . |
| 20 | Recently various writers have drawn attention to the domesticated image of women put over in the mass media , in textbooks and reading books for children , and in school curricula . |
| 21 | The engine ticked over in the chilly air . |
| 22 | There are some aspects of our personalities which may not come over in the brief span of an interview , but which those close to us know only too well . |
| 23 | It was discarded when shelving had to be cleared away from a wall on which a mural had been discovered after being painted over in the Stalinist era when the artist who created it had fallen out of favour . |
| 24 | I 've informed him that we 'll be taking the place over in the near future , but not why , naturally . ’ |
| 25 | The note said , ‘ Urgent Sachmeyer 's ’ , then there was an address over in the Mexican sector near the expressway . |
| 26 | Before the surrounding land was built over in the last century and subsequently , you could have seen it from miles away in every direction . |
| 27 | Most of the new people who 'd be coming over in the last couple of years a lot of them would n't be coming out to our concerts yet because they would probably be into a more younger scene like the Mary Blacks , maybe or the Christian Moore or somebody like that you would be catering for a younger audience and the the second third generation would be coming out to the First to the Foster and Allens and the Daniel O'Donnells and the Brendan Shines you know . |
| 28 | And over in the last verse in that chapter it says , he who believes in the son , has eternal life but he who does not obey the son , shall not see life , but the wrath of God abides on him . |
| 29 | The doctor was too young to have come over in the last war . |
| 30 | And then for the third leg of our erm Radio Oxford yankee , we go over in the tenth race , the nine forty eight . |