Example sentences of "it [vb past] 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 | Usual stuff … down the pub with it slung over the shoulder to show off — hero of the moment . |
| 10 | These are examined with the intention of establishing a ‘ vocabulary ’ of Unionism and to chart how it changed over the period as a whole . |
| 11 | This morning the water was clear and silvery , chuckling a little as it lapped over the smooth , oval , brown stones . |
| 12 | It was admirably researched , hut it glossed over the important questions while pointing up the trivial ones . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was a perfect summer dawn and the red flames matched the red disc of the sun as it rose over the misty hedges . |
| 15 | Behind his head the lights of the lorry were flashing as it bumped over the hard ridges of ice . |
| 16 | A PR executive faced with the task of showing the strength of steel-capped safety footwear hired a double decker bus and had it photographed as it drove over the feet of a man wearing the boots . |
| 17 | It was an Arctic blast screaming from the east , picking up extra degrees of cold as it drove over the frozen white surface . |
| 18 | Helen Atkins , the Council 's solicitor dealing with the issue , says the Authority has to act on the complaints it received over the summer , but admits there 's still a long way to go . |
| 19 | It roared over the deck , detonating against the stacked containers , bursting upwards in geysers that reached hungrily at the armoured plate glass of the bridge . |
| 20 | In the context above , Mr Lorry did not perceive the actual change itself as it came over the doctor . |
| 21 | you see , so , after that shop it came over the tannoy me and Elaine |
| 22 | cos it happened over the weekend digging up holes in the erm in the golf course . |
| 23 | It … it was full of beer and it flowed over the ribbons and spoilt a hat and the mistress of the room was very angry and told Mama I had n't to be brought back again , so Mama left . ’ |
| 24 | It is greatly helped by a pragmatic government who , as it showed over the Rainbow Warrior affair , is quite prepared openly to back its security services even when they have been caught red-handed in a straightforward act of overt terrorism . |
| 25 | It soared over the wall and hurtled into the side of the keep , enlarging the hole already there . |
| 26 | Swilled quickly in a tin bath , it hung over the nurse 's hand like a wet sock . |
| 27 | Philip hoisted it with a stick so it hung over the branch of a tree . |
| 28 | ( 2 ) Directing that the money remain in court , that , where solicitors sought payment out to them of money belonging to a foreign state , if the court was not satisfied that the solicitors had authority to act on behalf of that state , it should , of its own motion if necessary , require them to obtain that authority and ensure that the money remained under the court 's control meanwhile ; that the factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a regime existed as the government of a state were whether it was the constitutional government of the state , the degree , nature and stability of administrative control that it exercised over the territory of the state , whether Her Majesty 's Government had any dealings with it and the nature of any such dealings and , in marginal cases , the extent of its international recognition as the government of the state ; that on the evidence , M. 's interim government did not become the constitutional successor of the former government and was unable to show that if it was exercising any administrative control over the territory of the Republic of Somalia ; and , accordingly , the instructions and authority the solicitors had received from the interim government were not from the Government of the Republic of Somalia , and no part of the proceeds in court should be paid out to the solicitors without further order of the court ( post , pp. 750G–H , 757E–G ) . |
| 29 | Oddly enough — those of you who may recall what it was like in the Ruhr ( or as crews called it " The Happy Valley " ) — on this occasion there was one searchlight waving about near the top of the Ruhr , and for one agonising moment it waved over the Whitley , and there was another one at the bottom by the Cologne end . |
| 30 | ‘ Can I help it if it flew over the wall ? ’ |