Example sentences of "old [noun] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | An extreme example is bracken , Pteridium aquilinum ; Oinonen ( 1967 ) showed that individual clones in Finland were up to 1440 years old and one old clone extended over an area of 474 × 292 m . |
| 2 | The Proverbs of the Old Testament return over and over again to the theme that men should beware women ; the Jewish Talmud says that if you teach the Laws to a woman , you teach her lasciviousness ; the Hindu sage Manu teaches that if women go unrestrained , the result is anarchy ; and the oft-quoted Church Fathers and medieval theologians appear to respond to the idea of the Female with fear and disgust . |
| 3 | Indenbaum offered him some old pictures to paint over , but Modigliani picked carefully through them so as not to paint over any painting , however unimportant , which showed a hint of talent . |
| 4 | The old lady fell over backwards on the pavement , with the child on top of her , and the car skidded past them , crashed into the bus-stop itself , and stopped . |
| 5 | It was too far for the old lady to come over . |
| 6 | The old Eve takes over . |
| 7 | A rumble started , deep in his lung , like an old engine turning over . |
| 8 | As she leaves , the bad old lad scoots over to intercept . |
| 9 | People embrace him as an all-conquering hero , but they miss out the fact that a lot of native Americans were butchered along the way before old Whitey took over the country . |
| 10 | old ferry coming over from erm Harwich to the Hook of Holland . |
| 11 | As it moved it creaked and crackled , an old tree moving over crisp leaves . |
| 12 | A new service could set up by gaining enough contracts with major customers of the old service to take over . |
| 13 | An enormous old woman spills over a fold-up chair . |
| 14 | Dangerous driving cos he made the old woman give over and overtook somewhere totally stupid and probably find he had no brake . |
| 15 | Old Bob came over |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , my lovey , ’ the old voice repeated over and over again , whispery with dismay . |
| 17 | At vegetable markets in Kiev old ladies argue over the relative radiation levels found in carrots and cabbage . |
| 18 | There were a dozen mourners from the family in the front pews — women with grey curls and mild glasses , an old man bent over a stick , his head projecting forwards from the unoccupied collar of his overcoat like a tortoise 's ; a schoolboy in a neat navy-blue trenchcoat , holding a maroon cap . |
| 19 | An old man sat over a half pint of stout . |
| 20 | He had reluctantly agreed " to let the old man come over " . |
| 21 | Cries rose on all sides of her as she filled the dishes , but she worked on steadily oblivious , like some eccentric female St Francis , brooding a little about the image seen in the vicarage garden , which , although it had turned out to be only an old cloth flung over a tree stump , was an indication of the way things might go . |
| 22 | In The Wrench he creates the rigger Faussone , the practical man whose cranes girdle the world and who keeps returning , a little heavy-footed , to the house in Turin where two old aunts fuss over his welfare : Faussone was spoken of as ‘ my alter ego ’ , and the book has to struggle to accommodate him as a second person , available for interview by Levi . |
| 23 | I 'll find an old cassette to record over . |
| 24 | ’ ‘ It 's funny to think that just this afternoon I had the idea of getting poor old Eddy to come over to the Gates and tell me something about himself … |
| 25 | An older woman bustled over . |
| 26 | It was two years since he had last been below the Net , but his early discomfort quickly passed , older habits taking over , changing the way he moved , the way he held himself . |
| 27 | As the oldest trunks fall over , they are replaced by new shoots which appear continually around the base of the tree . |