Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He tried to duck under the ropes to come over to us , but gets stopped by a security man who asks him what he 's playing at . |
| 3 | Therefore , any remaining lead of the futures price over the spot price is due to either new information being reflected first in the futures market ( price discovery ) , or to recording and reporting lags for the index . |
| 4 | The NUM 's main trouble with the courts arose over actions brought by its own members on the grounds that the union had broken its own rules ( over a pre-strike ballot ) and for contempt . |
| 5 | When sport fails to deal adequately with the excesses of its performers , it is right and proper for the courts to take over . |
| 6 | The morning after the Ober Gabelhorn the Germans came over to say goodbye as we packed our gear on the hut terrace . |
| 7 | Show the Germans coming over , you know see 'em now you did n't have no street lights , did you . |
| 8 | With the scripts turned over to Christopher Barry and Raymond Cusick some of the earliest discussions centred around the form and shape of these Dalek survivors . |
| 9 | Notwithstanding the former grandeur of the Cathedral , Johnson wrote no more than a page on Elgin , concluding with an attractive clue to a traveller in his wake : ‘ In the chief street of Elgin , the houses jut over the lowest story , like the old buildings of timber in London , but with greater prominence : so that there is sometimes a walk for a considerable length under a cloister , or portico . ’ |
| 10 | The plans showed over forty rooms and vestibules on four elevations , with two staircases , two lifts that stopped at every floor , hot and cold running water in all five bathrooms , water closets that flushed , electric light , a cellar , a garage and a garden . |
| 11 | Many of the projects taken over on nationalisation were , moreover , either wholly or partly in the hands of civil and electrical engineering consultants , whom the BEA assured of continuing support for the foreseeable future . |
| 12 | Graham , the doubter who would not vote for the local Conservative MP , had even expressed indifference about the Russians taking over South Africa . |
| 13 | The Times announced over three columns : WILSON REBUTS CECIL KING . |
| 14 | The cases extend over a period of ten years . |
| 15 | The ship deviated from the agreed voyage and arrived about 10 days late and in the meantime the price of sugar had fallen and the merchants lost over £4,000 . |
| 16 | I walk out on to the great parade-ground beyond , where the grandstands left over from Trooping the Colour are still displacing the more usual arrangements for Trooping the Parked Cars . |
| 17 | DARLINGTON MP Michael Fallon is to contact the Roads Minister over plans for a traffic calming scheme in the town . |
| 18 | The Cymbalines , on the other hand , are the sort of boys you could take home to your parents along with their jangly , tuneful brand of guitar pop as-it-used-to-be-played before the hairies took over . |
| 19 | Let the vegetables soften over a low heat . |
| 20 | The head-lamps flashed over bushes and trees lining the sides of the narrow winding lane . |
| 21 | The goals scored over four weeks are totalled and the highest number of goals wins a prize of £50 . |
| 22 | Alex and Chris were playing poker as I walked in , and after explaining my predicament one of the Frenchmen handed over an old copy of the local paper which he had brought with him when he had joined . |
| 23 | The pictures taken over a period of 30 years by late showbusiness cameraman Dezo Hoffman are to be sold by Phillips in London on April 22 . |
| 24 | With Hewlett-Packard Co heading for $18,800m turnover this year and Fujitsu Ltd at around the $26,000m mark , while Digital Equipment Corp looks hopefully to Alpha to rocket it off its $14,000m-a-year launchpad , the contenders to take over leadership of the mainstream computer industry from IBM Corp are lining up — and a major new round of mergers and acquisitions could be on the way . |
| 25 | One of the lads come over from Switham House while Mr Benedict was here . |
| 26 | now then the E E C said this should of happened so we , we got a petition up and I thought , we got , well I did n't but the lads got over two hundred signatures and they must of been er two letters went to the Corporation and everyone was talking er critical |
| 27 | She looked back and saw the man stop dithering before the houses , and cross further up the street , just before the cars took over again . |
| 28 | Swales , the target for much of the fans anger over the past few weeks , is likely to resist Lee 's offer . |
| 29 | ‘ When I come home from work on Friday evenings the kids take over , ’ explains Michael . |
| 30 | So successful was the tactic that the return fire from the Dragoons passed over their heads without inflicting a single casualty . |