Example sentences of "over [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If a hawk flies over or a snake appears , he lets the young hop up under his wing and lifts them off the lily pads so that only their legs can be seen hanging down .
2 Now , though , with breakfast over and no sign of Ana , Maggie began to search for her .
3 Tufnell was also adjudged lbw in the next over and a couple of clogged sixes by Devon Malcolm off Muralidharan was the sum total of England 's eight-order resistance .
4 After the quarantine was over and a course of protective injections had been given , the older orangs were gradually introduced to the forest and then allowed to live freely all day .
5 Roscarrock could ill afford it , but short of putting the child out in the street he had little alternative ; so they struck hands on it , and that evening , when the money had been paid over and a receipt obtained , Tristram returned home in the company of Jennifer Gristy to be greeted by his father 's stinging sarcasm .
6 South Africa has said it expects the UN to reduce its 4,000-strong military presence once the poll is over and a Constituent Assembly has been elected to draft a new constitution .
7 There was very little disruption , a couple of chairs turned over and a table with most of its top scored off by shotgun pellets lay on its side .
8 Haines fell over and a Corporal kicked him in the stomach , shouting at him to stand up .
9 And the engine man he was on his knees beside the engine the engine was sticking over and the officer was in charge watching when we was watching the boat coming towards the grating you know .
10 There had been a thunderstorm the night before but it had swept over and the lake was calm .
11 Lunch is soon over and the crew set to work again .
12 Erm , well we it 's been accepted and I was , I was something over and the lady was horrified .
13 Damn Miles for wanting the information suppressed until the crisis was over and the shock could be minimized .
14 ‘ The front has been blown away , a wall is keeling over and the ceiling has been badly damaged .
15 Yeah , outside , it 's like my pram , I mean , I was , Stacey was going in hospital last year to have her adeno adenoids out and Sue was having him and I thought well , he was too big for his carrycot , but take the pram down and he 's got nothing to sleep in and er , I put him in it , it been six months since it was do well since he started using it , so I give that a good going over and the pram wheels come up lovely
16 Easter Sunday itself was a day of great celebration and merriment , with the dark days of Winter over and the year reborn .
17 The rain was over and the night was now clear .
18 Feelings were mixed , a touch of sadness that it was all over and the thought of a shower , some dry clothes and other such luxuries one normally take for granted .
19 It is vital to check the actual flying speed the instant the side-slip is over and the ASI is back in normal operation .
20 Addressing a seminar on ‘ 500 Years of Evangelisation in the Americas ’ , held prior to WACC 's Central Committee meeting , Mr McKay stressed that ‘ the era of mission is over and the experience of healing must begin' .
21 It is occasionally possible , just for brief moments , to find the words that will unlock the doors of all those many mansions inside the head and express something — perhaps not much , just something — of the crush of the information that presses in on us from the way a crow flies over and the way a man walks and the look of a street and from what we did one day a dozen years ago .
22 It does have some impact I 'm sure that you 've been the training session and you thought it 's really good , really got a lot out of it and you 're quite surprised to see someone sitting next to you did n't like that much at all , you thought hmm wonder why that is because I found the content really interesting and it could have been the content matter did n't really sort of do anything for the people , it could have been the way it was put together , put over and the way it was actually structured .
23 I think they showed that one Christmas or something and were watching something else and we turned over and the instant we turned over , this girl wobbled across the screen , and my mum straight away switched it back on the other side me and me brothers right in the other room watching there .
24 The immediate strike threat was over and the union had demonstrated its ability to control the men ; the formal establishment of the National Maritime Board remained .
25 In 1649 the war was over and the king executed , but that summer a surprising turn of events took place in the Fens .
26 He had walked in and taken over and the marvel man had come up with nothing .
27 However , when the summer is over and the bothy is left with 200 whisky bottles , each sporting a candle stump in the neck , their usefulness has to be questioned .
28 In fact the pet petticoat restaurant is is run as a and because the theatre trust for whatever reason could make profit out of the petticoat restaurant and people that actually work there for the trust that actually took it over and the trust actually get 's a percent of the takings percent of profit and er .
29 It is four months before Stig is well enough to walk properly , and by then winter is over and the race has passed , with Odd-Knut making the top ten but no higher because of the loss .
30 are aged 40 or over and the brother/sister/parent/child of a diagnosed glaucoma patient .
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