Example sentences of "over [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is worshipped the world over as a male fan-tasy figure in classic movies like The Good The Bad And The Ugly , A Fistful Of Dollars and The Man With |
| 2 | When Mr Major waxes philosophical , he comes over as a strange mix of nostalgia and modernism . |
| 3 | I mean you still write one over resistance but do n't think of the resistance part of it , think of the new one over as a separate entity . |
| 4 | We could hear the V2s thudding down onto London in the far distance , but the sound came over as a far-off double bang , which puzzled us for a long time until someone told us what it was . |
| 5 | ‘ I used to play quite a lot of football , ’ he explains , ‘ but all I was really good at was knocking the opposition over as a last-ditch defence . ’ |
| 6 | It was odd coming over as a tragic heroine . |
| 7 | It was excruciatingly embarrassing to read the quotes and find myself coming over as a lonely , crusading ‘ woman who waits ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ The strong prejudice against only children comes over as a clear reason for having at least two , ’ she says . |
| 9 | Financially , the slave traders had rather more reason to take care of the people they were carrying than the transporters of convicts or of indentured labourers did ; all of these groups were being taken over as a speculative venture on which the shipper got no return unless he delivered live bodies , but the slave traders had already paid out cash to purchase their slaves . |
| 10 | Mrs Robins comes over as a cold , strict woman who was for ever giving orders . |
| 11 | From late 1922 , however , extreme anti-Marxism — now often without the express linkage to the Jews — began to take over as a dominant theme of his speeches . |
| 12 | The ability of this young quartet to present two works from such different worlds so convincingly , led one to expect that Dvorak 's American quartet would be a powerful experience ; but what might have been hot-blooded came over as an indoor gypsy — more pretty than potent . |
| 13 | He called them Amurricanes , in a heavy stage accent that came over as an envious sneer . |
| 14 | When Christina gave the signal , they both body-surfed for a few minutes before tumbling over and over as the strong current literally threw them onto the shore . |
| 15 | This white turkey virtually took over as the sole breed ; and , by the Christmas of 1959 , there was hardly any demand for the bronze bird . |
| 16 | The more serious threat of the expanding red weed had taken over as the immediate concern of the controllers . |
| 17 | Roger Fox , father of Richard and Rachel , has taken over as the new Chairman . |
| 18 | In August 1953 Sir John Nott-Bower took over as the new Commissioner at Scotland Yard and was reported as saying that he would ‘ rip the covers off all London 's filth spots ’ . |
| 19 | The final axe is expected to come after Birt takes over as the new director general in March . |
| 20 | Couples took over as the American No 1 at the Bay Hill Invitational in March and stayed there , although he admits it was a struggle . |
| 21 | The American Volunteer Group ( AVG ) , known the world over as the Flying Tigers achieved fame under the leadership of Claire L Chennault fighting alongside the Chinese in their pre World War Two struggle against Japan . |
| 22 | Only in recent years has it been taken over as the civic centre , and the Goose Fair relegated to the outer suburbs ; but for something like a thousand years it was the market place . |
| 23 | Programming might have started out as an ancillary task in a student 's special subject of physics chemistry or psychology but soon takes over as the dominating interest . |
| 24 | We must find some way of ‘ taking out ’ of our calculations that fraction of brain that can be attributed simply to body size , so that we can compare what is left over as the true ‘ braininess ’ of animals . |
| 25 | PS See over for a selected list of forthcoming seminars |
| 26 | Mm Oh that would be alright if we go yeah we can all go over for a nice little run out |
| 27 | Skipper Shane Cooper and full-back Lyon combined down the left flank to put Ropati over for a second-minute try . |
| 28 | They had seen little of Rosemary Talbot during the last four months , so it was n't until they had been in their flat for a week and Leith went across the hall to invite Rosemary and her husband over for a celebratory drink that Leith learned that Derek Talbot no longer lived there . |
| 29 | The Defence wheel can only be put over for a major change of course when there is a fortuitous coincidence of national and international events , political trends , and economic pressures at a time when there is also a Secretary of State in office , who has the strength of character and political standing to create a new consensus in Whitehall , Westminster , and the electorate . |
| 30 | Sixty miles they used to come over for a good evening at those and maybe two principles |