Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a bather wanted more hot water , he or she had to shout over the noise of filling baths and protesting bathers and the Duchesse singing , and depending on how this eccen-tric woman felt , she would either top up the water from a source outside the cubicles or tell the bather his time was up . |
| 2 | And before we can create this new confident person , we frequently have to break down the poor self-image he or she has acquired over the years . |
| 3 | The haze of his first cigarette clouded the room briefly and in the streak of light from the curtains he saw the heaped clothes and the mark on the hotel carpet where he 'd knocked over the glass of water . |
| 4 | Or he wanted to get over the fence into the back garden . |
| 5 | One of the most positive aspects of Switchboard that I 've seen over the past seven years , apart from the callers , has been the way that many of its members have continuously struggled to put their politics and convictions about gay and other rights into practice ( though some of them might not care to put it that way ) and the strength that working on it has given some people to do so elsewhere . |
| 6 | A towel that I 've put over the radiator to get warm so I can wrap it cosily round myself and hug myself dry . |
| 7 | And it was perfect for me because a lot of the vibrato that I had developed over the years suddenly sounded more like me , because the vibrato bar was n't there taking up the slack and giving way every time I applied vibrato . |
| 8 | One of my favourite photograph frames that I have made over the years is a 15-cm ( 6-in ) square piece of card , into the centre of which a heart-shape aperture is cut about 7. 5cm ( 3in ) high . |
| 9 | It is , I think , no chance that I have chosen over the years to support women rather than men political prisoners in Chile . |
| 10 | It seems that we would be much better off if we spent money not on constructing a barrage but on cleaning up the various sewage works that I have castigated over the years . |
| 11 | That evening , after supper , I was too tired to write up notes , so I lay thinking over the day in order to make it easier to write them up in the morning . |
| 12 | Where was that hard-earned gloss of calm efficiency that she had cultivated over the years ? |
| 13 | From her work as a professional painter and teacher she passes on the many tips , secrets and techniques that she has learned over the years and shows how gardens , with their immense variety and colour , can provide the artist with endless ideas . |
| 14 | This is not going to disappear overnight , it 's going to affect her for a long time , and she 's never going to catch up on the work that she 's missed over the last couple of months by having seven teachers in six weeks . |
| 15 | From them you know ma that she 's got over the ecstasy of , yes he 's coming home ? |
| 16 | She was lowering herself from the tip-toe that she needed to look over the panelled backing of the window display when something else caught her eye , further down the road . |
| 17 | Mm and what would happen if it came to the end of the quarter and you had so much money accumulated to pay on your Co book , for stuff that you 'd got over the quarter , and you just could n't pay it ? |
| 18 | the subscriptions and withdrawals that you have made over the period |
| 19 | So we thank you for food , for clothing , for our homes , and for the government that you have set over the world . |
| 20 | Okay , have a go at it and we 'll come round and correct what you 're doing as you 're doing it , alright , so you want to pad over the wound to keep infection out and then try to get your bandage on top of that to keep the dressing in place . |
| 21 | ‘ We had a good laugh about it once she 'd got over the shock . |
| 22 | ONCE YOU 'VE got over the severe attack of ‘ Ooer ’ s which this band 's rather indecent euphemistic name inevitably provokes , Joni 's Butterfly reveal themselves ( sorry ) as perfectly innocent pop fun for all the family , with a lyrical undercurrent of sex , drugs , avarice and Satanic goat-molesting . |
| 23 | And even her clothes , once you had got over the original shock , were part of a long tradition of home-made outfits dating back to her days at the Mother Theresa Convent , South Wimbledon . |
| 24 | The cliffs are not very high , but once you have abseiled over the edge you enter a world of powerful adventure , whatever your grade of climbing ( and there are fine routes in every grade ) . |
| 25 | I think bearing in mind the clear intentions behind criteria two and the concern that we 've heard over the last three days about inward migration , it might be useful if we tag a rider onto erm criteria two . |
| 26 | The truth is that for a weekly paper in something as effervescent and ethereal as pop , all that we 've done over the last 40 years is not as important as what we do next week . |
| 27 | What what we should be doing is make s making sure that we have er the negatives of all those drawings that we 've produced over the last ten or fifteen years , that we may need to use again . |
| 28 | With a view to er recording all the drawings that we 've produced over the last fifteen years . |
| 29 | It will ensure that the growth that we have established over the last 10 years in terms of the range and volume of health care facilities continues under future Conservative Governments , partly because we are committed to ensuring a fairer distribution of resources within the NHS , which will secure benefits for the constituents of my hon. Friends , and partly because of the commitment given from this Dispatch Box yesterday by the Prime Minister — that under a Conservative Government the national health service will have its real resources increased year by year — something which the last Labour Government were unable to do . |
| 30 | Kenneth Baker , the party chairman , said yesterday that Cabinet ministers would play a stronger role in government than they had done over the last decade , and there would have to be public spending increases in the 1990s to pay for an improved quality of life . |