Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morse goes over the water |
| 2 | Murray got over the difficulty by appointing a triumvirate in command : Steward , Constable and Sir Archibald , with the Flower of Chivalry as specific military adviser . |
| 3 | Bamberger orbited over Filfla for some time . |
| 4 | Covering the sprawled guards constantly , Mortimer hopped over the bodies and continued downwards , his men jabbing the bodies with bayonets to make sure . |
| 5 | First on the scene with punk , while NME argued over Supertramp 's ‘ latest waxing ’ ! |
| 6 | Comparison with the original ring-of-two current stabiliser of Peter Williams ( WW September 1966 ) reveals that V Lakshminarayanan has over simplified the circuit to such an extent that it no longer works as a current stabiliser ( EW + WW July 1991 ) . |
| 7 | Has your view of Harlow changed over the years ? |
| 8 | Then Holmes bent over the body and began to move it . |
| 9 | That is the advantage William has over her . |
| 10 | Dalrymple presided over the halcyon days of ‘ c'moan or get aff ’ until his retiral in 1926 , and Dalrymple 's days saw the expansion of the system to 100 miles of track and an annual profit , together with a yearly 300 MILLION passengers , not all on the one tram of course . |
| 11 | At Christie 's , Noel Annesley presided over a satisfactory auction with his customary skill , a failing voice enhancing , rather than diminishing , his dry humour which maintained the momentum of the sale . |
| 12 | Ma bent over the stove . |
| 13 | Three Burgundians therefore met three Scots in a tournament at Stirling presided over by James II , which began with all the appropriate pomp and ceremony , and then acquired all the merits of a punch-up , which the Burgundians duly won three-nil . |
| 14 | As the result of lengthy investigations into the Duzme Mustafa revolt , Mehmed Sah was implicated in that affair ; and , Husameddin relates , " Molla Fenari grieved greatly that at the end of the investigations , in the year 832 , Mehmed Sah Efendi passed over the bridge of death together with Candarlizade Ibrahim Pasa and the Grand Vezir Haci Ivaz Pasa . " |
| 15 | David winked over Josh 's head . |
| 16 | I 'm up to my ears in work here , not least amongst my worries being a meeting at three of Headquarters staff at SHAEF presided over by General Eisenhower himself . ’ |
| 17 | Kathleen bent over the unconscious patient and sniffed . |
| 18 | The jackal as Anubis presided over mummification and was lord and protector of cemeteries . |
| 19 | It seemed downright immoral to torment the poor woman with questions now just for the sake of proving the Jaguar 's brakes were faulty or Fanshawe driving over the seventy limit . |
| 20 | Scott presided over his own elegant display of stamps and postcards ; while Christine probably had the most vital role of any that morning , for she had been asked to look after Vanity Fair , the visitors from London , and the sealed bids . |
| 21 | The salesman and Hank , however , seemed to have reached some agreement and strolled towards the office , where fat old Josh presided over the financing section with the careful rapacity of a born moneylender . |
| 22 | Noel Edmonds presides over a launch party in London , but the demo machine does n't function all that well . |
| 23 | During their stay the Juan Carlos and Salinas presided over the signature of a five-year treaty of friendship and co-operation in the context of which Spain was to provide aid to Mexico of 4,400 million pesetas ( about US$40,000,000 at current exchange rates ) over five years in the form of credits and investment in the private sector . |
| 24 | As acting President Frederick Gilby presided over the BDDA 's first post-war Congress , held in Glasgow in 1920 , where Ernest Ayliffe was elected as the next President of the Association . |
| 25 | Frankie peered over the top of his comic , unable to resist the temptation to join in . |
| 26 | DG has over the last three to four years put a good deal of energy into reducing that cost base , but now , even with a quarterly breakeven level reduced to $270m from $350m , the company is struggling to make ends meet . |
| 27 | Dennis presides over the walled garden , which supplies the kitchens at Highgrove and Kensington Palace and grows all the weird and wonderful varieties that the Prince acquires and delights in surprising his guests with . |
| 28 | Before long , Knocknarea towered over me in escarpments of sheer rock , with grassland visible high in the sky . |
| 29 | Mairi was still shrieking and striking at Luch while Master Beaton bent over the bed . |
| 30 | Hawkins bent over the slave and examined the padlock . |