Example sentences of "[conj] over the [noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To return to the source of good , evil and neutral ; whatever , in the conflicts referred to , may have been the intentions or hopes of the protagonists , the fact remains that over the centuries they have produced a constant flow of individual human decisions which can be examined and specified as either good , evil or neutral . |
| 2 | Few things are more poignant than a holiday romance , and we 're very happy to say that over the years we 've brought more than a few couples together who are now living happily every after . |
| 3 | I have found that over the years we have never had a problem with the Michelin tyres and they offer excellent value for money . |
| 4 | Here Gehlen collected up the thousands of spools of microfilm that over the years he had painstakingly amassed as part of his record of Russian intelligence . |
| 5 | I am quite sure that over the years he saved the company substantial legal costs ! ’ |
| 6 | Congress will recall that over the years I 've made references to the close working relationship , which was developing between G M B and our German colleagues . |
| 7 | ‘ I think what I am trying to explain to you , ’ she said , ‘ is that over the years I became so completely cowed and dominated by this monster of an aunt that when she gave me an order , no matter what it was , I obeyed it instantly . |
| 8 | And if you look back at the minutes and then Yona I think she 's great as the secretary because she does n't let anything go but on the other hand she 's pretty informal about and the way th that over the weeks you know somebody er Julie or June or Mervia Ann come up with the suggestion that they maybe feel why do n't we do this and then by the next week it 's turned into a a rally or a big picket or or a record . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's always the same person of course , although over the years she has had different names and come in various shapes and sizes . |
| 10 | The property was bought by the Blandy family in 1884 , and over the years they have farmed the estate and improved the gardens . |
| 11 | Movies are a medium of communication , and over the years they have developed their own language of expression . |
| 12 | One of these types is the de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou and over the years it has attracted a long list of very satisfied customers . |
| 13 | I 've never needed it , and over the years it has accumulated . |
| 14 | And over the years it 's been possible to identify a number of factors produced by these bacteria that seem to make sense in terms of the pathology and the conditions . |
| 15 | In the seven years we lived there , only once did I ever meet another fisherman on my favourite part of the river ; and over the years I came to know the South Tyne and its wildlife as well as Mole or Rat in Wind and the Willows ever knew their water . |
| 16 | Buddy Holly has been a very big influence to me ever since I was a kid and over the years I have read articles and watched documentaries about his life . |
| 17 | Joe , who was an outstanding goalkeeper in the Irish League and had a spell of management with Ards , has been looking after Ireland 's senior badminton players since the 1978 European championships in Preston and over the years he has had an excellent working relationship with the players , motivating them and looking after their fitness . |
| 18 | began his career with in June 1950 as a maintenance electrician and over the years he has worked for at Wallingford , at Newark and from 1987 for at Gainsborough . |
| 19 | It was n't that she had ever made a conscious decision to play the helpless female ; she just always looked as though she was in constant need of care and attention , and over the years she had found that it was far easier to allow people to think what they liked , because whenever she tried to be assertive , or explain that she was really quite competent , no one ever believed her . |
| 20 | Like everyone else even remotely connected with the Hochhauser Season ( and over the years she had listened to quite a few of Uncle Willi 's stories ) she had accepted the image of Gesner the seducer , the monster of conceit , the arrogant and selfish star of the company . |
| 21 | It is like the crew of a sailing-boat ; you build a team and over the years you make your performances together . |
| 22 | Establishing the defence might be very important to the manufacturer if over the years he has supplied a lot of such gloves and a lot of wearers have suffered arthritis because of them . |
| 23 | ‘ In the early days we worried a bit about comeback , but over the years we 've just got more outrageous , ’ he says . |
| 24 | Butler and Stokes write , " Partisanship over the individual 's lifetime has some of the quality of a photographic reproduction that deteriorates with time : it is a fairly sharp copy of the parents ' original at the beginning of political awareness , but over the years it becomes somewhat blurred , although remaining easily recognizable . " |
| 25 | When I started , I was very much on my own but over the years it has really caught on in Whaddon and now membership has trebled . |
| 26 | but over the years it 's got loose and you 've probably fiddled and it did broken |
| 27 | Physical fear was somewhere in his emotional vocabulary but over the years he had mislaid its meaning . |
| 28 | but over the years you sit there and ya you know |
| 29 | But over the years she 'd studied hard — correspondence courses , night classes , anything she could lay her hands on . |
| 30 | Red Deer ( Cervus elaphus ) are really forest animals , but over the centuries we have destroyed Scotland 's natural woodlands and driven the deer to live in the harsh environments of the higher , exposed hills . |