Example sentences of "it [verb] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , this performance measure is somewhat crude ; it measures whether the correct word was chosen or not , irrespective of the score or margin by which it succeeded over the other candidates . |
| 2 | That was , that , but it got over the main point of the story . |
| 3 | It snatched at the windows in the nearby houses and set them rattling in their frames ; it whooshed over the slates and plucked at the loose ones , prising them away and sending them spinning to the ground ; it scurried down through the garden gates , hoisted up handfuls of dead leaves and paper and kicked them scurrying down the pavement . |
| 4 | As a result most of our large towns had their select residences on the western side , in positions where they received the benefit of the prevailing wind before it passed over the town or city ; the poorer population residing on the eastern side . |
| 5 | While it passed over the flat surface four hard pointed styli engraved the foil , sometimes in a continuous line and sometimes with a series of indentations , several times a second , each stylus responding to the quantity of the parameter concerned . |
| 6 | The train carrying the body of Cadogan West gave a lurch as it passed over the points and the curve in the rails just before Aldgate Station . |
| 7 | Mrs Palichuk sank onto a scarlet kitchen chair and eased off her drab grey winter coat so that it draped over the back , retaining , however , the black kerchief which modestly veiled her hair . |
| 8 | I was once on the ridge with my wife , taking photographs , when the silence was shattered suddenly by the scream of a low-flying jet aeroplane ; in a matter of seconds , it skimmed over the full length of the loch , rose a little in the upper valley and then appeared to turn sharply into the mountain wall , passing from sight and sound . |
| 9 | So she 's got her knuckles grazed , you 've cleansed it , put it into a drop of water , ra or else we 've used the Mediwipes or the end of the bandage okay , now we just cover it , okay , so it goes over , can you just straighten out your hand for me , it goes over the wound , okay and you can take this one that she can hold it for you just up there , right , now the rest of this just winds round , the only thing you really need to do is to just make sure that you leave the thumb out , cover up the bottom right and then come up towards the wrist , cover up the top of the pad , come back down again , leave the thumb out all the time , got the idea ? |
| 10 | We regard the left critique of pluralism as cogent , but it goes over the top in seeing everything about pluralism as completely wrong since it is the case that an open competitive model of interest-group politics does fit the facts on certain issues . |
| 11 | And that 's virtually all it says but it goes over the words again and again , as if it 's trying to force you to rejoice through learning the words off by rote . |
| 12 | And it it really is covered by the passages in erm erm , just , I just reiterate that that that expressly referring your Lordship to it , professional duty except in so far as it may be necessary to elucidate the rules that that was at page eight hundred and forty one at the bottom and it goes over the page to eight four two and then proceeds to general proposition to those two experts ordinary witness may not may not give their opinions towards matters legal or moral obligation . |
| 13 | He says that the bid is hostile because it goes over the heads of the directors . |
| 14 | This monorail goes around , it stops at the bo the bottom stage and it goes over the top stage . |
| 15 | then er it goes over the top of their head dun n it ? |
| 16 | Away goes Lawrence , rumbling away from us now steams up his run waits and ducks , but it goes over the back of his neck through to Russell , no run . |
| 17 | And you know the bit where erm she 's in bed and the hand comes out from behind the pillow and it goes over the back of her head and she goes , she goes , she was so cute she goes , she goes , what a pile of shit ! and when , you know when she cleans up all the cornflakes ? |
| 18 | Usual stuff … down the pub with it slung over the shoulder to show off — hero of the moment . |
| 19 | Firemen secured the bus with ropes to stop it tumbling over the edge before escorting the petrified passengers to safety . |
| 20 | Her outstretched hand disturbed a fragment of loose rock , sending it tumbling over the precipice ; for one hideous moment she fancied the entire ledge was on the move and about to hurl her into the chasm . |
| 21 | These are examined with the intention of establishing a ‘ vocabulary ’ of Unionism and to chart how it changed over the period as a whole . |
| 22 | This morning the water was clear and silvery , chuckling a little as it lapped over the smooth , oval , brown stones . |
| 23 | It was admirably researched , hut it glossed over the important questions while pointing up the trivial ones . |
| 24 | The mudskipper manages to do so by holding water in its mouth which it swills over the lining of its mouth with a rolling action of its head to extract the oxygen . |
| 25 | Roy shrugged off his own coat while still sitting , letting it fall over the back of his chair . |
| 26 | Incidentally , the working pattern of these bodyguards , so it transpired over the following days , entailed one or the other of them going up to sleep at unusual hours so as to ensure at least one was on duty throughout the night . |
| 27 | It was a perfect summer dawn and the red flames matched the red disc of the sun as it rose over the misty hedges . |
| 28 | Behind his head the lights of the lorry were flashing as it bumped over the hard ridges of ice . |
| 29 | rainbow climbing high , everyone can see it climbing over the sky , rainbow , here 's a rainbow yeah today poor |
| 30 | Cos they , it 's ran off that one , i it joins over the , yeah . |