Example sentences of "then the [noun pl] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the clouds came over and the colours faded . |
| 2 | When engineering was first introduced into universities in a large way , then the departments bent over backwards to try to show that engineering could be taught as an academic subject . |
| 3 | The process is of course , the reverse of the lowering , the ladders being used until it is raised to forty-five degrees , then the ropes take over . |
| 4 | ‘ Then the locals took over . |
| 5 | Your poor visitors had come miles , had to wait to be taken from the prison gate to the gym , and then had to queue up waiting to hand in a bunch of flowers or something trivial , and then it all had to be signed for , then the screws came over to your table and you had to sign for it . |
| 6 | The eerie lights would hang in the air for quite some time then the mortars came over to burst at the edge of the wood . |