Example sentences of "the [noun sg] over [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before he left Larnaca airport on a US Navy helicopter for the hop over to the American Embassy in East Beirut , his briefcase was rigged with a microchip Gigaherz transmitter no bigger than a butter biscuit . |
| 2 | " The Governors could not recommend the change over to Rugby Football from Association , as the traditions of the School must be maintained . " |
| 3 | The water industry favours the change over to European methods of incineration and composting , but faces opposition from people living in the vicinity of proposed incineration plants . |
| 4 | Yet , when the time comes for a hermit crab to change shell , having outgrown its present one , it can accomplish the change over in just a few seconds . |
| 5 | She threw the brick over to the bonfire site and attacked with the fork again . |
| 6 | They told the lieutenant over at the hotel , but he wanted to hear it directly from the company . |
| 7 | With Mary leaning over his shoulder , he took out four large white five pound notes and one single note , folded them carefully and handed the money over to her . |
| 8 | Class leader Lynn Lawrence , 46 , of Hawthorne Close , Bury , has handed the money over to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund . |
| 9 | He drew it each Friday when he drew the men 's wages but he never handed the money over to Sarah until Saturday morning when she was off to do the shopping . ’ |
| 10 | Cissie also loved to read to him , and considered it a real treat when Beth gave the privilege over to her . |
| 11 | His black eyes flickered , and he drew the monk over by his sleeve to look at the pageant more closely . |
| 12 | That was the main , but not the only cause of the subsequent riot , when the bonnie lieges , not a few ‘ in drink ’ as they used to say at the magistrate 's court , toppled the case over with the luckless , as well as legless leprechaun still inside . |
| 13 | Preferably , you should have been able to read the text over before the lecture . |
| 14 | Measurements suggest that the crossing over from production to destruction of O 3 occurs at an altitude of 28km . |
| 15 | I want to try and get one before May before the exam , but there is a superb production on i the summer , it 's on June and July and it 's at an open-air theatre erm in Lincolnshire and what people do is they go and take a picnic and you sort of take your rug and sit there and cos it it 'll be hot in the summer it would be really nice and you watch it outdoors and it 's in this big stately home which is in it 's own grounds and there 's gift shops and restaurants and bars and obviously wo n't go in the bars but you know there 's lo it 's beautiful and like a big stately home you can wander round the gardens for a bit and then go and watch the performance and if it rains then there 's a canopy you can pull the canopy over like at Wimbledon and you know it 's a really nice day . |
| 16 | What I owe him shall be paid in full , and I 'll make him count the coin over in his ruin . |
| 17 | But perhaps the joke had had a serious point to it too , or at any rate a serious side-effect : it had enabled Hilda to get her side of the story over to posterity . |
| 18 | Compression of this sort , practised more widely , might succeed in bringing the play over into a new medium . |
| 19 | How did you feel about giving the album over to somebody else ? |
| 20 | The USA had constantly insisted that the Krasnoyarsk radar station should be dismantled , calling it a major obstacle to the conclusion of a START treaty , and had rejected as inadequate a Soviet decision on Oct. 27 , 1988 , to turn the complex over to the Soviet Academy of Sciences for civilian use . |
| 21 | He goes to bed late , thrashes around , snores and yanks the duvet over to his side . |
| 22 | and further , and this is not meant to be a joke , in my own experience , if they get time to think quietly and realistically , I believe a whole lot of decent Conservatives who used to think pragmatically , organically and with respect for local communities , would emerge to contribute to a coalition for the future over against the ideological block that seems to think we use people to make money , instead of making money to serve people and their communities . |
| 23 | She felt in her pocket and handed the key over with very bad grace . |
| 24 | And and when I rang her she said yeah bring the card over in the morning if you like . |
| 25 | But his handling of the industry portfolio incurred the wrath of industry leaders who appear to have won the president over to their side ( New Scientist 10 March , p 646 ) . |
| 26 | Odell had to see the President over at the Mansion . |
| 27 | This means that the designer must avoid long unbroken sequences of questions demanding little thought or deliberation from respondents , otherwise they are likely to grow bored and inattentive and provide ill-considered answers to get the interview over with . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , ’ very quickly , to have the confirmation over with . |
| 29 | I eased the car over to the side of the road and switched off . |
| 30 | Scott pulled the car over to the kerb , his right hand slipping inside his jacket . |