Example sentences of "over by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The charges were made by Derek Johnson of Southern Counties , a silver medal winner at the Olympic Games in 1956 , who told the board 's annual meeting that he wanted to correct the record on how the board came to be wound up in 1987 and its financial affairs taken over by the AAA . |
| 2 | ‘ My spirits , too , ’ agreed the old lady , throwing a wry glance at Theda , who was over by the windows . |
| 3 | It may happen that individuals are taken over by the organisation and by groups within it , particularly where the corporate identity and image is a strong one . |
| 4 | In fact the world-wide Hilton chain was taken over by the Ladbroke Group in a £645 million deal completed in September 1987 ( Ladbroke also owns the Texas Homecare d-i-y store chain ) . |
| 5 | Over by the spice rack , a George Michael lookalike was arguing with a Jimmy Sommerville doppelgänger . |
| 6 | Three years ago it was taken over by the Queen 's Moat Houses group and new performance disciplines were imposed . |
| 7 | His great days were over by the middle of the 1830s , although he was still active , on a much reduced scale , until at least the middle of the next decade . |
| 8 | As for happy hours , I 'd say that 50% of pubs in Leeds have a happy hour at least once a day so if you were looking for something to celebrate each and every day then this might come up ( along with the anniversary of the death of the guy who drove the stephenson steam train on it 's maiden journey , and the all too sad occasion of the 7th anniversary of the cat that lived 4 doors down that was callously knocked over by the no. 40 bus ) |
| 9 | There the Kaszubians occupied smallholdings ; all the better farmland towards the coast had long since been taken over by the Germans . |
| 10 | He said that He used to tell me about his country that you know it was taken over by the Russians and then it 'd be taken over by the Germans and You know what I mean . |
| 11 | Bones were flung to the floor and quarrelled over by the hounds , who gave way to Murtach 's two wolves when Fife and Drum desired some particularly meaty scrap . |
| 12 | It was only at the end of McKerrows long tenure in 1940 that the Review was taken over by the Oxford Press . |
| 13 | Since then , it has been taken over by the firm of Heber , who specialise in high tech electronics research . |
| 14 | Put simply , it means that your total reprographics facilities are taken over by the experts . |
| 15 | You never hear of groups being taken over by the drummer . |
| 16 | If the chain of being had been taken over by the materialists , those naturalists who believed that the order of Nature revealed the existence of a rational plan of creation preferred to invoke more complex patterns . |
| 17 | There were no lights near by or below him but he could see the lake stretching into the night off to the left , its surface catching the lights of the buildings and city sky over by the edge of the Park . |
| 18 | The High 's record company remixed then re-released their first single Box Set Go to considerable success , even though they were n't exactly bowled over by the idea . |
| 19 | There were two mortar explosions over by the road , then all was fairly quiet except for the sound of firing away in the distance at the other end of the village , where I had been earlier on in the evening . |
| 20 | Over by the volleyball court a crowd of older children gathered to look at postcards of Scotland ( always an icebreaker , particularly if you can find a picture of someone in a kilt ) . |
| 21 | The occasional broadcasts had been taken over by the priests with their simplistic message of all-out war with the Hunters and , the more disturbing subtext , of the people needing to repent and place their fate in the hands of the Prime Mover . |
| 22 | Suddenly Clare jumped up , leaving his bucket to be kicked over by the cow , went quickly towards her , and , kneeling down beside her , took her in his arms . |
| 23 | They should n't leave all this stuff unguarded — and what 's that envelope over by the pile of coins ? |
| 24 | A TINY island rich in wildlife , scenery and history is to be taken over by the RSPB with the help of a £400,000 appeal . |
| 25 | In 1903 the Wolverton ( Boys ' ) and Old Bradwell Schools were taken over by the Bucks County Council on 29 September at a nominal rent of 5s per annum for each school . |
| 26 | The earliest mention of a ferry at Seacombe dates back to 1515 but its advancement came in the latter part of the last century when the ferry rights were taken over by the Wallasey local board . |
| 27 | Carson hoped not , as he made out the shape of something like Liawski 's diaries over by the skirting board of the opposite wall . |
| 28 | During the whole of its independent life the railway possessed only 2 locomotives , both Manning Wardle outside cylinder , 0-6-OSTs , named Cleobury and Burwarton , which were taken over by the GWR in 1923 and survived in traffic until the 1950s . |
| 29 | Once over the bridge one climbs steeply , across the steps of the Roman theatre , now watched over by the stern , ascetic eye of a medieval chapel , to the citadel above , a palimpsest , with a Roman fort at its base , surmounted by a medieval castle which the Della Scala were to dominate after the decline of the commune at the turn of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries . |
| 30 | ‘ At the very least , ’ says Ian Hawkins ‘ it avoids their being crawled over by the competition . ’ |