Example sentences of "over on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 2 | Macaulay Culkin is wonderful — I like him a lot — but I did get frightened at the bit when he slipped over on the ice and the bad men caught up with him . |
| 3 | There 's a little girl fallen over on the ice . |
| 4 | Over on the A four two three , the Banbury to Oxford road , that 's between Langford Lane , Kidlington , and the Shipton-on-Cherwell turn off , there 's some resurfacing work taking place with temporary traffic lights and some traffic being diverting . |
| 5 | Filth , dust , pollution , children getting run over on the roads , road traffic . |
| 6 | But said that they went on Tuesday evening they had some people over and they were looking we were gon na go for a meal in Chorley er they 'd come over from Grantham , and they were going over on the night on the night ferry , on night boat from Hollyhead . |
| 7 | The tread is most unusual , having slightly raised areas to correct any tendency to pronation or supination ( going over on the inside of your heel or the outside of your toes . ) |
| 8 | Ryan rolled over on the floor , shaking with laughter . |
| 9 | Jack yelled as he and his assailant rolled over and over on the floor . |
| 10 | He 's alright , he was rolling over on the floor yesterday with me was n't he ? |
| 11 | Hurrying through the kitchen , he found the President keeled over on the bathroom floor . |
| 12 | So in other words we got eight tens left over on the bottom . |
| 13 | Over on the horizon there was a dark-blue smudge of land to be seen only in first clear light . |
| 14 | You come over on the Sunday evening because we do start prompt at eight thirty on the Monday morning . |
| 15 | Over on the chest . ’ |
| 16 | Another one away from home , away from his wife , Silke , and his 18-month-old daughter , Roxanne , over on the mainland in army married quarters in Inverness . |
| 17 | The handles were generally fixed first , also by plain rivets burred over on the shield 's front , at right angles to the grain of the wood ( Leeds and Shortt 1953 , p. 56 ; Jarvis et al . |
| 18 | But dear Caroline 's got an almighty hangover , sick as a dog , so I brought him over on the back of the bike to see it again . |
| 19 | But you 're , but you 're quite right you , you certainly , you certainly have the right to say look , you know , rather than signing this now er I do need some time to think I mean let's face it there 's a load of s If you turn it over on the back of the credit agree |
| 20 | He fell over on the deck and began to cry . |
| 21 | you do is hang it over on the clothes line , stand back a few inches , just give it an even spray , |
| 22 | The breakthrough was a squat we turned over on the south coast , two years back . |
| 23 | She turned over on the bed and sat up . |
| 24 | An opinion was expressed that such a purchaser under a suspensory condition ( that the money be only handed over on the certificate being got by the purchaser ) is not necessarily committing a violation of the Act , " assuming that he shows proper diligence in endeavouring to obtain the certificate , and is acting throughout in bona fide " : per Lord Trayner , ibid . |
| 25 | Er and the other thing of course would be the er very important aspect of er whether I think you can come over on the telephone right . |
| 26 | What I why I was emphasizing earlier on how important it is to get all this over on the telephone . |
| 27 | Some theatre staff take over on the patient 's arrival in the theatre suite and keep the patient until he is fully recovered and conscious , while in other theatres the ward nurse remains with her patient until he is fully anaesthetized fin some cases the ward nurse assists the anaesthetist ] and returns to collect the patient who is not fully conscious and still under the effect of the anaesthetic . |
| 28 | Over on the promenade they were already putting the lights on in the shops and cafés . |
| 29 | For most Americans , it is simply what they fly over on the way to either coast . |
| 30 | ‘ You can just see the sea from the nursery , ’ explains Prue , ‘ and if you stand on the loo and look out of that little window you can see all those cloverleaf intersections you drove over on the way in . |