Example sentences of "over in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elsewhere there is not even the clue of a sentence in Pindar to show who was behind some great construction : Segesta , for instance , a long way over in the interior of the west of the island , had a fine fifth-century temple , the expenses of whose construction can only have been met ( given the position of the city ) from agricultural wealth , that is , from the product of the labour of the native Sikels . |
| 2 | doing the writing to get over in the description cos they talk about the swirling sea |
| 3 | Knives and forks clattered down and forms were kicked over in the uproar which followed . |
| 4 | Over in the bower where Ralemberg and his wife used to sit were four corpses , each covered by a dirty , canvas sheet . |
| 5 | Over in the dance and the world-music scenes , the fashion is for all things Brazilian . |
| 6 | Instead the orbs had sunk back and there was a darkness to the face , a suppressed despair , even an agitation that spoke of tedious things , so unlike those experiences we had laughed over in the past . |
| 7 | She turned and surveyed the room that was always hers when she visited Thomas , its architectural simplicity , the reassuring certainty of the heavy polished wood , the playful cubes and rectangles of the little Feininger villages which she had spent so much time dreaming over in the past . |
| 8 | In most gliders the rudder will have overbalanced and moved hard over in the direction of the spin . |
| 9 | To her annoyance she found herself glancing over in the direction of his table , but saw only an empty chair . |
| 10 | Some like to take their time with an invigorating massage while others opt for a quick once over in the shower . |
| 11 | He 'd stayed some three hundred yards away from her when she actually crossed over in the golf course into er a wooded area . |
| 12 | Filmer would stay over in the station . |
| 13 | it 's too easy to roll curl up and roll over in the recession . |
| 14 | Kevin Stabb from the USA was over in the jam , or was it an illusion ? |
| 15 | He remembered the long black shadows he had seen when crossing over in the basket lift . |
| 16 | The first half at Murrayfield had seen Scotland turn England over in the line-out by 13–2 . |
| 17 | He squealed and rolled over in the sand , kicking frantically , as a rabbit does in a snare . |
| 18 | Wimpey made a loss in 1991 of £16.1m but has restructured by selling off businesses and said earlier this year that it believed the worst was over in the construction industry . |
| 19 | His tools were all over in the cafeteria , there had to be something that he could use to open himself up . |
| 20 | Patrick turned over in the bed , and discovered that there was a fire burning in the grate and a breakfast tray on the small side-table beside the bed . |
| 21 | Faye pushed the wheeled dinner tray aside and flung herself over in the bed to face away from her brother . |
| 22 | ‘ Instead of selling the offices which we 've taken over in the village , you could use them as a workshop and studio , ’ he suggested . |
| 23 | In the early morning planes were heard passing over in the mist and the rain . |
| 24 | And when we remember what Eliot did with the gibe , taking it over in the title of Old Possum 's Book of Practical Cats , that collection of whimsical fireside charades in verse , we may well think again about Auden 's comment that in English family life ‘ it is becoming to entertain each other with witty remarks , hoaxes , family games and jokes ’ . |
| 25 | With all the poignancy of a Shakespeare sonnet , it is over in the space of a summer day , until next spring . |
| 26 | See you when you started crying last night there was no need for that Matt , nobody can what do you want me to do please you when you kick , that was three things you kicked over in the space of minutes |
| 27 | Over in the west , Ayr had a Protestant minister , Robert Leggat , under the protection of the burgh council , from May 1558 . |
| 28 | But they said that it was a different matter over in the west , around Appleby way , where they generally paid more money but worked you very hard and gave you little meat . |
| 29 | And then Exeter over in the west country . |
| 30 | Once my lady 's sister was staying at Hurst Castle not far off , and there was to be a grand ball , and her ladyship sent me over in the coach to dress her sister 's hair , Lady Winton that was . |