Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [verb] over a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | A retaining wall of loose bricks or stones separate the bog garden from the pool proper and retains the peaty mixture which is placed over a layer of gravel . |
2 | that early intervention is the best way of coping with it , and certainly it demands that parents and friends and teachers , and people concerned are aware of any change which is sustained over a period because by early intervention then you 're probably coping with the problem rather than the eating disorder , because the problem is there before the eating disorder . |
3 | The second example comes from the growth of EPoSS ( Electronic Point of Sale Scanning ) in retailing , in other words the increasingly common barcode which is passed over a scanning device linked to the cash register . |
4 | Right , April , April the tenth to the twelfth , is the , is the National Amnesty A G M which is held over a weekend and this year is in Exeter . |
5 | The blessing itself is made over a cup of wine in honour of the day ( ‘ Blessed art Thou , O Lord our God , King of the universe , who createst divers kinds of spices ’ ) which adds to the light of the Sabbath , symbolised by the candle , offering a fragrance and a beauty all its own . |
6 | But , two years later , he is presiding over a government which is clobbering the poorest in our society harder than anyone else . |
7 | He 's tripped over a root … |
8 | He 's there , still curled up and still secured by the tape , but he must have wriggled his way through to here while you were down in the cellar ; he 's knocked over a table with the phone on it and he 's just turning the phone the right way up as you enter the lounge and see him . |