Example sentences of "over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government of Sri Lanka has shown itself to be increasingly sensitive to the outcry over its appalling human rights record over the last decade . |
| 2 | Charlie 's departure is the first of several , and this event is succeeded by the announcement of a further theme when the rabbi 's thunderings pass over the heads of his congregation and the writer notes : ‘ in later years I would wonder how different my life might have been if a few people , those closest to me , had been frightened — just a little . ’ |
| 3 | In the afternoon he starts by sleeping , then takes over the kitchen and insists on preparing extravagant five-course meals . |
| 4 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , tearing the sheet in his hurry to turn over the page , I know you never reply to letters and refuse to answer the door or the phone . |
| 5 | Having applied cement render over the external brickwork , attached a hideous modern porch and added an extension in jarring and inappropriate modern materials , the brewery designers have gutted the interior . |
| 6 | The VAT returns for the last quarter are due in , and that big ( very profitable ) convention which took over the hotel for three weeks last year is imminent but you ca n't get at your data . |
| 7 | A Youngman protégé could take over the old boy 's lecturing responsibilities and everything would fit together rather nicely . |
| 8 | Go over the launch failure procedures after any long lay-off from flying . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've seen Jay tongue out figs in the most suggestive manner , and positively drool over the sweet flesh of a mango . |
| 10 | Your leading hand slaps down on the punch as you simultaneously punch over the top and into the opponent 's face . |
| 11 | If so , provide an opening yourself and as the opponent goes for it , rock back and punch over the top . |
| 12 | Even though it does seem to have taken over the house a bit . ’ |
| 13 | Nor should you be disconnected for a debt owed by a previously registered consumer , but you must have made proper arrangements with the fuel boards to take over the supply . |
| 14 | Birmingham 's Snow Hill station closed after the LMR took over the old Great Western 's lines . |
| 15 | This pattern is made not only by the dancers ' feet as they move over the surface but also by the dancers ' bodies as they move through space . |
| 16 | When moving dancers from two feet to one in both open and closed sissonnes , the choreographer can make the movements dart over the floor as Aurora does in her final solo in The Sleeping Beauty . |
| 17 | ‘ Prices are used as a barrier so that the sort of people we do n't want go over the road , ’ he said . |
| 18 | They took over the wool shop next door to expand their stock and the surprisingly large upstairs restaurant , now spread over both stores , has attracted well-known food critics to this outof-the-way location . |
| 19 | Meanwhile Svidrigailov has taken over the suicide role , which is to say the blanket boredom has become positively terminal . |
| 20 | America is his favourite way of talking about the undiscovered country , and it shows that as well as suicide and blanket boredom he has taken over the flavour of Raskolnikov 's joke about getting used to family life . |
| 21 | Lizaveta once mended his clothes : when we puzzle over the chance-induced actuality of her murder being so largely left to speak for itself we are creating a false problem by the inertness of our own metaphor . |
| 22 | But turning over the pages of poor Hewlett 's unreadable but honest ‘ Song of the Plough ’ , one wonders about that . |
| 23 | Morris translated sagas , the Irish took over the business for a few years ; Henry James led , or rather preceded , the novelists , and then the Britons resigned en bloc ; the language is now in the keeping of the Irish ( Yeats and Joyce ) ; apart from Yeats , since the death of Hardy , poetry is being written by Americans . |
| 24 | The false idea is that French culture took over the leading position of Italy . |
| 25 | This was privately admitted by senior officers who took over the running of the fund two years ago , and after an inquiry by the Charity Commission more than £3,000 was repaid from regimental funds . |
| 26 | His place in the second row is taken by Scotland 's Damian Cronin , with England 's Rob Andrew taking over the captaincy . |
| 27 | Yet , if he refuses , or if he fails in any attempt , the banks could , in theory , take over the company which is in default of several loan agreements . |
| 28 | Whether the government , which is collecting the money from the sale of the villas , was hoping Prince Sihanouk would come back , or whether no one dared to take over the house , Mr Sok Hay would not say . |
| 29 | It was a triumph that also set up the Kiwis nicely for a surprise win over the seventh-seeded Italians . |
| 30 | All this is followed meticulously if at a respectful distance by Doolittle 's seven-piece band , written for with a sure ear for tonal balance and a strong sense of the orchestra 's role as a virtual extension of the voice , but with little willingness to let the musical idea take over the action . |