Example sentences of "this [noun] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | This story went over big with the seven and five-year olds in my party . |
| 2 | But there was a big loss of life as well , but what frightened me was this Germans coming over on Peedie bits of rafts and the men swimming in the sea and whatnot |
| 3 | Yeah it 's got this bit left over |
| 4 | We have asked the people who constructed this building to take over the theatre in January until March . |
| 5 | Young children do imitate the aggressive acts of televised models as much as live models ; furthermore , this effect persists over a considerable period of time and is particularly pronounced when the aggressive model is portrayed as successful . |
| 6 | This fella came over in an 18–30 steward 's blazer and he said , ‘ You 're responsible for me working here ’ . |
| 7 | This result spills over onto the optimal output decision : since one can expect better sales prices with a higher σ or a lower k , one should accordingly produce more output with a higher σ or lower k . |
| 8 | One day I was walking down Bedford Street in Belfast city centre and this bloke pulled over in his car and started tooting his horn . |
| 9 | They were just finishing their lunch and Barton chose this moment to walk over to their table . |
| 10 | Have the flora and vegetation always been as species-poor as today , or has this poverty developed over thousands of years during the post-glacial as a result of habitat loss , soil deterioration , or land-use change ? |
| 11 | Two-thirds of this group got over three-quarters of their income from state benefits and only 7 percent had any earnings from employment . |
| 12 | Out of a total of seventeen boys from this group interviewed over a period of one year , no fewer than ten had been in trouble with the police for offences not connected with activities at football matches . |
| 13 | ’ I am waiting until one of the spaceships orbiting this planet passes over your position . |
| 14 | He took a much greater and more serious risk , one which his relatives to this day gloss over or fudge . |
| 15 | ‘ The Warden was just telling me all the details when this policeman come over , wanted to talk to 'im . |
| 16 | The preliminaries on this occasion extended over a rather lengthy period and so the 150 or so guests were in pretty good form when we eventually sat down to one of the best ‘ function type ’ meals that I have ever enjoyed . |
| 17 | This habit spills over into their schoolwork . ’ |
| 18 | but , and this kingdom takes over , Jesus was a ransom sacrifice , he brought , bought people back , that 's , those that have faith , so in the new , when this new system comes round , when the king comes round the earth we 'll start to grow young again , and then that way we 'll have a sort of a different flesh wo n't we ? |
| 19 | This exhibition continues over into 1993 . |
| 20 | The systems way of thinking was adopted successively by biogeography , soil geography , climatology and geomorphology and this adoption extended over about 35 years from 1935 to 1971 when Physical Geography : A systems approach ( Chorley and Kennedy , 1971 ) was first published . |
| 21 | Helped by Vladimir Riha 's reedy , unhoneyed tone , this performance comes over with irresistible rustic pungency and vigour as if in the open air rather than the Beaux Arts ' drawingroom . |
| 22 | In general use the ME-6 is very user-friendly , and this simplicity carries over into its programming . |
| 23 | Oh since this firm took over , well it was not B M K you know but it was taken over by the |
| 24 | This weekend sees over runners from Ulster hospitals taking part in a province-wide 320-mile relay to raise cash for a counterpart in war-torn Ethiopia . |
| 25 | He 'll often cut through this way to go over to Wellington into Crowthorne and walk all the way round . |
| 26 | You 've used , er , er , an underspend from this year rolled over , but you have n't increased the base budget to pay for the projection costs which came from erm , this year 's budget . |
| 27 | If this dominance continues over a period of years though , how often does the feeling creep up on you that you 'd like to see this champion really tested , even beaten ? |
| 28 | This customer went over to our cash till and said to one or our staff Maggie Rodan : ‘ This book could almost make you faint ’ . |
| 29 | The applications of this principle extend over almost every field of economic inquiry . |
| 30 | ‘ A guest , Colonel Merrick 's wife , was in one of the rooms upstairs brushing her hair by candlelight in front of the mirror , when she saw this face peering over her shoulder . |