Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [vb infin] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even then , if a file is very large , it may spread over a number of disks . |
| 2 | When a Steam Tank ploughs through a unit it will probably hit several models and it may run over several units in a turn if it is lucky . |
| 3 | A strong wind chased the rain over their heads and away as they approached , and the trees tossing beside the walls made the outline of the huge house appear to tremble , as if it might roll over and crush all the homes of the people who depended on it . |
| 4 | The call had been made in good faith : a car had looked as though it might turn over , but in the event it had not . |
| 5 | Yeah I 'll just put them back in for twenty seconds just to get them up to heat , keep your eye on this Paul , it 'll go over if you do n't |
| 6 | ‘ With a bit of luck it 'll stay over in Manchester , ’ Otley said . |
| 7 | It goes like this and then it 'll cloud over and rain . |
| 8 | I have visions of bosses all over the land going hot under the collar as they see yet more of their staff enjoying the antics of this old salt — it could take over where Leisure Suit Larry left off . |
| 9 | When Alison had pushed him he 'd started to gather the momentum to ask the same questions that were obsessing Forester — apparently not the reaction she 'd expected , judging from the way that she seemed to have slammed the lid back on the mixture before it could boil over . |
| 10 | One jerk , one shudder , one small loss of control and it would spill over into a chaos so terrible that it could only end in death . |
| 11 | Perhaps it would blow over . |
| 12 | Democratic Russia itself , at a press conference on Sept. 10 , warned that it would go over to the opposition if economic reform programmes were watered down and the former nomenklatura were once more put in command . |
| 13 | It would hand over its property to its constituent republican bodies to decide their fate independently . |
| 14 | The military government in Burma said it would hand over power to the pro-democracy opposition which took an overwhelming lead in the elections for the National Assembly . |
| 15 | Instead , it would take over some assets , often the least valuable ones . |
| 16 | Even at the faster rate , it would take over 1300 years simply to count to the smallest of the above numbers . |
| 17 | And there were times now , even amidst the hubbub of men , when the numbness reared its head again and made him think that eventually it would take over and he 'd descend into silence , cold unthinking silence . |
| 18 | Meanwhile negotiations between the US government and the Philippines over the future of Clark air base and of Subic Bay naval base remained effectively deadlocked , with the Philippines government continuing to insist that it would take over the bases when the current agreement expired in 1991 . |
| 19 | It would take over the role in Ukraine of the former USSR Vneshekonombank ( Bank for Foreign Economic Relations ) , whose assets were taken over by Russia pending an agreement between the republics . |
| 20 | It would tick over perfectly without her for a few weeks . |
| 21 | In the next two months it will hand over many of its roles to the British Horse Racing Board and racing in this country will certainly never be the same again . |
| 22 | Assuming a fair wind on major infrastructure , access , and drainage , it is unlikely that a new settlement would be producing a significant group of housings until somewhere around , at the very best , end ninety six into the of ninety seven period , in that context , what is happening in that short intervening period , assuming certain planning guidance comes forward to help that intervening period , and will that new settlement actually be built out prior to two prior to two thousand and six , will the fourteen hundred dwellings be built in that period , question mark , probably not , it will lap over , therefore in that context of a gap at the beginning , and a potential overlap at the end , it is very important again to revisit the peripheral land issue . |
| 23 | The union will fight your case through the courts if someone tries to rip you off , it will check over contracts for you and offer cheap instrument insurance ( see the Musicians ' Union article for details ) . |
| 24 | The length of the transition curve depends upon the total change of radius , the velocity of the engine and the permitted superelevation , bearing in mind that the cant must not be so great that if an engine is halted it will topple over . |
| 25 | ’ It will blow over . ’ |
| 26 | It is programmed with a flight plan telling it how to get from a nearby ‘ way-point ’ to its target , and with a set of pictures of how the terrain it will pass over should look to its radar altimeter . |
| 27 | I have seen some very attractively variegated mint which I would like to grow in the flower border , but my mother says it will take over the whole garden . |
| 28 | The two-armed machine 's designers at Patscentre , Cambridge , say it will take over routine laboratory tasks such as assay work , culture transfer and chemical sampling . |
| 29 | In July it will take over 1,200 civil servants employed by Telekom and the workforce will rise to 3,700 in 1994 . |
| 30 | The Russian government of President Boris Yeltsin has announced it will take over all the Russian facilities and functions of the former Soviet Ministry of Atomic Power , Engineering and Industry . |