Example sentences of "[verb] over [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ross Wyndham was all that she had tried so hard to forget — and more : tall , lean , dark and almost painfully attractive , his tanned skin darkened further by the thick black hair , which was swept back like a lion 's mane over his well-shaped head before sweeping down to curl over the top edge of his collar . |
| 2 | There are simple spinelets scattered over the dorsal surface of the disk although they are often rubbed off in preserved specimens . |
| 3 | When ‘ scarce anything [ was ] more likely to mar a … man 's reputation than to be thought opposed or indifferent to the cause of abolition , but when slavery was a distant and foreign institution , the urge to respectability could predominate over the vital flame in antislavery . |
| 4 | I was sailing the Pacific , or a character in a surrealist painting ; often I was walking over the red shale past one football pitch after another , with goal-posts stretching as far as the eye could see , like white crosses over the fields of Arnhem . |
| 5 | Nowhere is this more impressive than on the Dean Bridge at sunset , when one looks over the deep valley of the Water of Leith and sees the glistening windows of Moray Place and Ainslie Place . |
| 6 | By the time Ceauşescu first visited the Soviet capital , the new wedding-cake skyscrapers of the University and the Foreign Ministry , along with less outlandish and more uncomfortable blocks of flats , towered over the ancient heart of Muscovy . |
| 7 | These wagons had a different coupling system over in the island ; the sound of I O M shunting is quite different from mainland shunting , you do n't get the clunk of the links on a loose-coupled wagon but a delayed clank as the ‘ chopper ’ of one drops over the buffing plate of another . |
| 8 | Along the top of the bank was the Ben Tee path , leading to a stile and wending up by the burn — rather than towards the peak — so I just headed over the dried-out moor for the steady ascent to the summit . |
| 9 | The canal is carried over the western spur of the M5 on a modern aqueduct . |
| 10 | The most militant fan of Sixties architecture would be hard pressed to support a last-minute appeal for the Bull Ring , although crocodile tears will be shed over the probable demolition of the Rotunda , a monumental steel and glass phallus , that , in the absence of a sky-piercing cathedral , acts as the city 's one instantly recognisable focal point . |
| 11 | They arrived at the edge of the trees just in time to see Angel One advance to stand over the sprawled figure of Brett Grant . |
| 12 | His burnished gold hair curled over the high collar of a royal blue coat , and he wore a black velvet waistcoat sprigged with silver leaves , an expensive-looking garment for a young physician unless he had private means . |
| 13 | As the argument continued behind closed doors , a row erupted over the huge cost of Newall 's arrest and detention , estimated at more than £1 million . |
| 14 | He opened up a correspondence with the more pliable officers among Dara 's army and with promises of rewards secretly won over a sizeable proportion of his opponent 's force . |
| 15 | Stack Rock won over the minimum trip at Newbury earlier in the season and , with rain forecast in the Haydock area , he should have everything in his favour today . |
| 16 | A headstone of Thatcherite granite stands over the ministerial grave of that consensual Tory , Francis Pym — in real life , still happily with us in the House of Lords . |
| 17 | On Channel 2 , the unctuous host of the Gerry Springer chat show had apparently taken a serious oil overdose as he presided over a freak show of truly terrible cases of giantism and dwarfism by telling his goggle-eyed studio viewers they were each of them there ‘ so that next time we may understand and empathise when we meet a woman 7ft 10ins tall . ’ |
| 18 | Mr Portillo , at 38 the youngest Cabinet member since Dr David Owen , who was also 38 when he was made Foreign Secretary in 1977 , replaces Mr David Mellor , the new Heritage Minister , who presided over a significant increase in public spending in the run up to the election . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She has challenged certain long-established political assumptions : that a government could not be re-elected if it presided over a massive increase in unemployment ; or that a government had to govern with the consent and co-operation of the major interests , particularly business and the unions . |
| 21 | The Yang brothers had taken a prominent part in quelling the " turmoil " in mid-1989 and presided over a massive programme of political education within the army . |
| 22 | He talked about St. Paulinus and St. Aidan and visited Whitby where — all those years ago — St. Hilda presided over a double monastery of men and women . |
| 23 | The first reigned during a period of complex political change , and presided over the difficult transition from the Roman Republic and the civil wars which brought it to an end to the monarchical system which became the Roman empire ; Nero 's reign marks the abandonment of the pattern which had been established by Augustus . |
| 24 | After the disruptions of 1792-9 Rey presided over the artistic re-establishment of the Opéra . |
| 25 | Despite opposition to the duality of his role and criticism of his creating a judgeship for his brother-in-law , Douglas presided over the steady growth of company and colony . |
| 26 | Executive power is vested in the Governor ( currently Carlos Melancia ) , who is assisted by five Secretaries-Adjunct with executive powers , and who presides over a Superior Council of Security and over a Consultative Council . |
| 27 | The Governor ( who is appointed by the President of Portugal ) is assisted by as many as seven Under-Secretaries with executive powers , and presides over a Superior Council of Security and a Consultative Council . |
| 28 | If , in a sense , the Great Mother presides over the physical act of childbirth , then it is wise to submit to her demands during pregnancy , birth and the infancy of the child . |
| 29 | In early 1977 , for the first time in 30 years , campesinos in the central region of the country occupied land from which they had been evicted over a long period of time to make way for export crops . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , IBM Corp shares plunged $5.50 to $72.50 on the day the company reported a stunning net loss after charges for the third quarter of $2,778m last week and scepticism rose over the prompt promise in the analysts ' call after the announcement that the dividend is safe . |