Example sentences of "in over the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And er we so we 'll we 'll pull that in over the year , over this next year and that 's one of the projects that
2 Occasional sounds from the matinee of Coriolanus ( stage management calls etc. ) drifted in over the tannoy .
3 And erm but with a man coming in over the harvest , they were working hard and long hours every day and they demanded and they deserved a higher wage .
4 The day before our return , as we looked out over the battlements , we saw a succession of thick black clouds driving slowly in over the sand flats and camel grass .
5 She has had to give in over the question of chrome : and the Foreign Minister , who never struck me as being too friendly towards us , failed to get away ( as he apparently hoped ) with letting armed German ships through the Straits .
6 ‘ A menace ! ’ quacked another duck , skidding in over the water .
7 The brambles of the garden had forced their way through one pane , and stretched in over the ledge , curling upwards like long scrawny fingers .
8 FOOTBALL-MAD Mike Grimsley gets a pal to tune in to match commentaries on the radio — then listens in over the phone .
9 ‘ Things are obviously becoming very busy and I went in over the weekend to do a bit of work .
10 ‘ Are you going in over the weekend ? ’ she asked , already missing the contact .
11 Was it Michael Cain in that movie he was in over the weekend , er
12 be in over the weekend .
13 The room was full of moonlight , skimming in over the river , throwing odd shadows , silvering the monochrome furnishings to a ghostly pallor .
14 and Mrs was born in over the river .
15 We presumed this to be a regular ford and drove across with the water slopping in over the floor of the Land rover , but we eventually made it up on to the high inland plateau .
16 The chief inspector climbed in over the sill , eased down the window and found herself in the hall .
17 Dusk was drifting in over the park , covering the snow in gritty grey shadows , bringing the houses around the park alight almost simultaneously .
18 With the hood down you can lower the windows and go in over the top , but even this is far from ideal .
19 Determined not to put a foot wrong , let alone go in over the top , as I sometimes do .
20 You ca n't come in over the top , you must come underneath to get children 's attention . ’
21 There was a lot more rhubarb , along the lines of ‘ Yes , what ? ’ and ‘ What are we going to sing , brothers ? ’ and then Mrs Quigley cut in over the top of this with a cadenza that would not have disgraced Dame Kiri Te Kanawa .
22 Now what tends to happen is , as you know , there is lots and lots of different guests on his chat show and if he feels threatened by them in any way shape or form , what he does he relaxes her , comes in over the top , turns them over , takes them by the shoulder and pushes them into the chair and what he is saying , he is saying , this is my chat show , do n't you submit .
23 So , so John came in over the top , Colin put his hands on top line , so John said I 'm in charge , over the top , Colin said , no .
24 So what he does now he always comes in over the top , so every time you see John shake hands with anybody he 'll always do that and come in over the top actually I 'm in charge and he sort of er sort of stamps his authority on the individual .
25 So what he does now he always comes in over the top , so every time you see John shake hands with anybody he 'll always do that and come in over the top actually I 'm in charge and he sort of er sort of stamps his authority on the individual .
26 So what I 'm saying to you is , do n't go in over the top , you know , five , just a normal but a firm handshake because a man would expect it because a weak ha ha handshake can be irritating and the same thing if she is a woman
27 It was a large , grassy paddock , wired in over the top to stop the high-climbing cats from escaping .
28 The ‘ plane lumbered around , came back into the wind , and began its second run in over the target zone .
29 I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed .
30 Fog was creeping in over the island and in the distance the deep boom of a foghorn sounded , echoing her own sudden melancholy .
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