Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sighed and scraped a little dry clay from under her nails , letting the words of her book flow over her eyes . |
| 2 | He hung to the rail and let the top part of his body curl over the banister and his dangling head could catch the full undistracted view of the dark , clear mass , seething below . |
| 3 | Greek Intelligence must have been taking a more than passing interest in the activities of our friend Andropulos over a long period , years I would think . |
| 4 | And the two of them shuffling in with the hoods of their duffel coats over their heads and their school scarves pulled over noses and mouths like a pair of monks doing the rounds during the Black Death . |
| 5 | In all 3,200 middle-aged men were given either beta blockers or diuretics for their blood pressure over a 10-year period . |
| 6 | Patients kept a detailed record of their food consumption over a three day period before their first follow up appointment in the maintenance phase of the study and also described their normal physical activity . |
| 7 | Learn and remember about the bloodshed at Grunwick , the abuse of power by union barons with their iron control over the last Labour government , the continual disruption of industry by strikes , flying and mass pickets , the uncollected rubbish and unburied dead , inflation at 27 per cent . |
| 8 | The dogs down our road look over their shoulder , |
| 9 | His lips parted a little , and she rubbed the pad of her index finger over the edge of his bottom teeth . |
| 10 | ‘ This is the model our analysts have come up with for the development of our leisure interests over the next few years . |
| 11 | Jarvis , who has had his ups and downs in his relationship with his county Yorkshire over the years , is confident those problems are over too . |
| 12 | St Ives shouted , ‘ Can you hear me , mother ? ’ , and everyone laughed , and then Meredith pulled the hood of his duffle coat over his eyes and lay full length in the centre aisle and moaned . |
| 13 | For example , an HP buyer could make much the same sort of claim against his finance company over faulty goods as the Sale of Goods Act would have allowed against a shop . |
| 14 | To massage your palm , support the back of your hand with your fingers and make small rotary motions with your thumb pad over one spot at a time . |
| 15 | The objective is to enable them to move EDI messages around the organisation and also , via the VAX , to exchange EDI communications with their trading partners over a range of different networks . |
| 16 | FU2 , meanwhile , have locked horns with their record company over their track ‘ No Head , No Backstage Pass ’ . |
| 17 | The Natural Environment Research Council , which co-ordinates much of Britain 's research into global warming , faces a 10 per cent cut in real terms in its research budget over the next five years — despite the fact that the government stresses the importance of its work . |
| 18 | By applying water management techniques to three of its production plants , ICI Australia has achieved a 40 per cent saving in water use at its Botany site over the last two years . |
| 19 | The former arrangements by which district councils over a certain size could receive or claim delegated powers from counties in respect of certain services were repealed and replaced by a ‘ provision under which local authorities can agree between themselves for one to carry out functions on behalf of another ’ ( Department of the Environment/Welsh Office 1974:2 ) . |
| 20 | The H pylori antibody positivity rate of 39% of young adults in 1969 is somewhat higher than that reported by other surveys and the consistency of our antibody results over the 21 year period that the testing is valid . |
| 21 | Fired with enthusiasm for the new Europe on his return flight over the North Sea , Fuhrer Kinnock , as he is known in the German press , seemed more frustrated than ever at being out of office at such a momentous time . |
| 22 | One of the major features of the growth of our education system over the last thirty-five years has been the enormous increase in provision of higher education . |
| 23 | At last he was naked and she felt the rough touch of his skin slide over her , bearing her down . |
| 24 | THE COUNTY now known simply as Lothian is an amalgamation of what used to be East Lothian , Midlothian , and West Lothian , with a few bits chipped off the edges here and there : for example , the little settlement of Stow with its packhorse bridge over the Gala Water was once in East Lothian but has now been lured into the Borders region . |
| 25 | The California people even suggested that the four major outbreaks of infection in their monkey colonies over the past 14 years were due to AIDS . |
| 26 | Man himself is the union of the finite and the Infinite , of Spirit and Nature , the miracle-worker in whom Spirit rules over Nature ; , and mankind as a whole is sinless and destined for perfection in its onward and upward march , symbolised by the New Testament in terms of death , resurrection and ascension . |
| 27 | What we are clearly seeing in some areas is roughly the same group of people exploiting the same local landscape for their subsistence requirements over a long period , but with successive generations living on different sites at different times . |
| 28 | The estimated cost of its building maintenance over the coming decade is £10 million . |
| 29 | ‘ We know how much money from the Freshmen 's Fayre has found its way into your bank account over the years . |
| 30 | NICK FALDO finished top of the 1992 Sony world golf rankings by a huge margin after his play-off victory over Australia 's Greg Norman in the Johnnie Walker World Championship in Montego Bay , Jamaica . |