Example sentences of "[to-vb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | This spell may be used to freeze over an entire body of water anywhere on the battlefield , for example an entire river , a marsh , or a lake . |
| 2 | I ca n't see that children 's perception of women is going to change until there are as many dads as mums waiting in the rain and , frankly , I think hell is likely to freeze over first . |
| 3 | No cos it it gives no and then it used to freeze over and you got a beautiful skating rink there |
| 4 | Rosa had been crying then , with the pieces of the plate her mother had tried to smash over her head in front of her at the table , and her mother had put the back of her hand to her daughter 's cheek , as if to test her for fever . |
| 5 | His conversion to Islam , his rejection of that faith and the subsequent , troubled period , when the disease had made him all but unrecognizable to any but a few close friends , are things we may wish to pass over today , but — ’ |
| 6 | This is the sort of CD that the ‘ ordinary ’ music-lover is likely to pass over in favour of something better known , on the assumption that ‘ German Harpsichord Music before Bach ’ would be of interest to the specialist only . |
| 7 | The local nature of much public library censorship was often an argument for saying that these were just local storms caused by local byelaws and local pressure and could be allowed to pass over without much fuss or comment . |
| 8 | Instead of musical mats , children can ‘ walk the plank ’ and should not have a foot on it or be the last person to pass over when the music stops . |
| 9 | the magazine had the final say on the format of the finished pattern , so I found myself having to pass over things like ‘ Take off on a hand knitting needle ’ when I knew full well that it would be much easier to ‘ take off on waster yarn ’ . |
| 10 | Even when psychology recognizes gender differences between psychologists , it tends to pass over other differences . |
| 11 | Its concern with celebrating femininity encourages it to pass over more of traditional psychology 's gender biases than egalitarian feminist psychology does . |
| 12 | I prefer to pass over these and the other Strauss songs with orchestra , where there is little improvement , although both Morgen and Wiegenlied , where no pressure on tone is required , are ingratiatingly done and better tuned than Nilsson 's accounts with piano . |
| 13 | The construct chain in line A is open to many interpretations , but the phrase a highway for our God' in line B is unambiguous : it must mean a road for Yahweh to wall : along-just as a " highway for the remnant of his people " in Isa 11.16 , and a " way for the redeemed to pass over " in 51.10 are paths for Israel to wall : on . |
| 14 | The consequence of this progressive decline in popularity has been not only a sustained attack on what are perceived as the inadequacies of communist ideology and the Soviet system itself in the 1980s ( and there is no more iconoclastic an exponent of this form of criticism than Nizan 's own grandson , Emmanuel Todd ) , but more specifically , a tendency to overplay the critically dissident aspects of Nizan 's life and work , and to pass over in silence the more constructive , orthodox communist slant of his writings . |
| 15 | They aimed to pass over to the other side of the stockade through the gap between one section and the other , where the bridge spanned the stream . |
| 16 | To pass over other objections , the Letter is far too long for such a purpose . |
| 17 | US Secretary of State James Baker also visited Poland on May 6 to brief Polish leaders and to pass over a West German invitation for Poland to join the July round of two-plus-four talks in Paris . |
| 18 | Incidentally , the old man wrote Cathy a letter which I was charged to pass over unopened . |
| 19 | Similarly , the buyer will wish to know whether there are rights for services to pass over neighbouring land . |
| 20 | No sir , my job was then to pass over to Mr who made the ultimate decision as to what to do about the incident . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've had a few hasty assignations in lay-bys to pass over pots of prepared food that no one must know were n't prepared by the hostess , ’ says Mrs Anderson . |
| 22 | Therefore if an SAA program wants to talk to a Unix sockets-based program , it ca n't — however two SAA programs will be able to talk over TCP/IP and two Unix applications will be able to communicate over an SNA network . |
| 23 | This is claimed to enable the DXE-based routers to communicate over an HSS interface at speeds from 1.5Mbps to 52Mbps . |
| 24 | Mirroring Sun Microsystems Inc 's efforts in this area ( UX No 386 ) Hewlett-Packard Co has rolled out a new range of ISDN connectivity enabling standalone workstations to communicate over public or private ISDN networks . |
| 25 | It 's not enough any more to have comfortable boots and something waterproof to slip over a jumper . |
| 26 | CHECK the castle is moored securely to the ground and never use it in high winds or wet weather as they have been known to slip over and wet slippery surfaces can be dangerous . |
| 27 | He would have some time to slip over to London to act . |
| 28 | First , because I have to slip over to the pub without her . |
| 29 | I 'll try to slip over if I get a spare minute . |
| 30 | It was barely three months after her arrival in the village when her life began to pitch over from an even keel , and it remained from then onwards at a pitched-over angle . |