Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] over [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady Grubb suddenly wept over the magazine on her lap and the finished plate of junket . |
| 2 | ‘ For my money she just came over the top of the hill from the Broughton side too fast . |
| 3 | And at that stage it was too late to go down the rope so it was just instinct more than anything else that we just jumped over the side from where we were then . |
| 4 | This point was well illustrated in a Church row that once broke over the head of a certain man . |
| 5 | ‘ I used to see Dad every now and again , say once a month , and we usually spoke over the phone at least once a week . |
| 6 | He quickly ran over the story of the Essex murders . |
| 7 | Magnificent is the fine stone canopy which once stood over the tomb of Bishop Lucianus by Matěj Rejsek , 1493 . |
| 8 | The doubts most clearly arose over the question of Idi Amin 's expulsion of the Ugandan Asians in the summer of 1972 . |
| 9 | The Pope also presided over the opening in Santo Domingo of the Fourth General Latin American Episcopal Conference , held on Oct. 12-28 . |
| 10 | Saudi Arabia and other members also disagreed over the interpretation of the ‘ marker ’ crude price set at the previous year 's OPEC conference in Bah , with a resolution so widely phrased that each member could do whatever it chose . |
| 11 | The two sides also differed over the issue of Korean membership of the UN . |
| 12 | Neither was able to brake and in seconds both vanished over the top of an ice cliff , falling on to the seracs below . |
| 13 | He often went over the head of union officials , appealing directly to the workforce , and , to a great extent , the workforce accepted his proposals , thereby improving productivity and dramatically reducing the days lost through industrial disputes . |
| 14 | The shadow of the 1259 treaty inevitably fell over the history of the Plantagenet administration of the duchy of Aquitaine in the later thirteenth century . |
| 15 | He never quite got over the sense of being a boy in the presence of an adult . |
| 16 | A DEFLECTED shot from Scott Nisbet that spun off an opponent and then bounced over the head of a bemused Brugge goalkeeper last night kept alive Rangers ' hopes of a place in the European Cup final . |
| 17 | ‘ And the clouds came down , and we lost the path , and we almost walked over the top of a thousand-metre cliff , and … ’ |
| 18 | She almost fell over the gate in her haste to race to the fire . |
| 19 | They almost tripped over the body of a Sellsword , his neck tilted at a weird angle ; and then saw Ratagan . |
| 20 | I mixed the cocoa shell with the soil , filled and planted the bed and then mulched over the top with more cocoa shell . |
| 21 | the shock of it never got over the shock of it though |
| 22 | If this were the case , then one of two points must follow ; either Childeric himself never ruled over the whole of Belgica Secunda , or Syagrius established his kingdom after Childeric 's death . |
| 23 | He therefore presided over the extension of secondary education throughout the county , and established new standards of school architecture and of taste . |
| 24 | In the later Republic and under Augustus hair was well restrained , tightly drawn back from the face and elaborately plaited over the crown of the head , the bulk wound into a bun at the nape of the neck . |
| 25 | He was convicted of entering the country illegally , though it is believed he accidentally strayed over the border from Kuwait , where he was working . |
| 26 | It is almost obligatory that the private-eye should be a person who looks at society from below , as contrasted with the Great Detective who certainly hovered over the world of murder from high above . |