Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] over [art] " in BNC.

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1 The English came over a crest , face to face with the Lord Owen in open field .
2 When the Vichy French fled , de Gaulle 's Free French and the British took over the capital .
3 It will allow the MDC to hand over the land at Herculaneum Dock to private companies which would finance development projects in return .
4 The latter took over the kingship and established himself in power , until he was overthrown by Chlodomer 's brothers , Childebert and Chlothar , ten years later .
5 In 9a ) , for consideration of the representative volume element , Hill calculates the volume average of for example the stress as the integral taken over the volume , divided by that volume .
6 Neil Edwards , the 27-year-old Harlequins lock forward who broke his nose and had stitches inserted in a gashed lip in the 1810 win over the Irish , did not play for his club on Saturday but hopes to be fit to face Bristol this weekend .
7 Morris translated sagas , the Irish took over the business for a few years ; Henry James led , or rather preceded , the novelists , and then the Britons resigned en bloc ; the language is now in the keeping of the Irish ( Yeats and Joyce ) ; apart from Yeats , since the death of Hardy , poetry is being written by Americans .
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