Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun sg] of [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd had my bald account of events over the telephone in the morning , his first knowledge of what had happened . |
| 2 | It was also in this year that the Company lost — at least legally — its sole right of control over appointments , for schoolmasters were now required to hold licences from the Bishop of their province in this case , Chester . |
| 3 | " I hope I did n't wake you up , Aunt Tossie — I brought you these , " she proffered the scone because she had decided that Aunt Tossie really merited some small recognition for her mistaken act of kindness over the spinach . |
| 4 | Thus , someone who is primarily in an anorexic phase , using starvation as his or her prime method of control over emotions and relationships , may have episodes of bingeing and then starve again as a method of gaining further , illusory , control and in order to control the physical consequences of the binge . |
| 5 | It is explicable , at one level , by their profound sense of guilt over their own privileges , cultural and material , for which the masses , as Lavrov wrote , had paid ‘ billions of lives , oceans of blood , incalculable suffering and the endless toil of generations ’ . |
| 6 | He also has no hesitation in reminding capitalism , in its spooky hour of triumph over communism , that the ‘ culture of contentment ’ has always depended on this underclass — indeed , has happily imported it when necessary to do the menial and distasteful jobs at the cheapest possible wage . |
| 7 | Ken was in his usual attire of raincoat over flannel trousers . |
| 8 | Fairbrother yelled , ‘ Goodbye , Toady ! ’ after the Murrays ' car , and crowed loudly with his diminishing circle of admirers over his enemies ' downfall , thereby reducing his popularity still further . |
| 9 | If the individual has a long position , his actual rate of return over the one-year holding period ( rh ) ( assuming T= I ) is . |
| 10 | Dinah and her father were discussing his forthcoming production of Macbeth over supper . |
| 11 | Third , as we monitored our representative sample of schools over a three year period , we could perceive some of them undergoing a process of structural transition , shifting away from the simple two-tier model towards departmentalism and/or a matrix structure . |