Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean we 've only got to have a look at the recent events in London went on about the insurances over the bombings over the weekend have n't we ? |
| 2 | The light footfalls of their human destroyer faded into the night , and the silence of the brooding trees closed in like a shroud over the scene of his latest carnage . |
| 3 | The Government were also planning to set aside the results of another competition that they had held for model barracks and this , along with the revelations over the fate of the Government Offices competition , provoked the Council of the Institute into action . |
| 4 | And the archaeological remains give authenticity to the fascinating legends of Greek mythology with the most famous of them all , the Parthenon , looking down from the acropolis over the bustling city of Athens below . |
| 5 | It you are constantly down in the dumps over the price of fleecewear then this may be the answer to your prayers . |
| 6 | From Gearstones an undisputed path goes down to a footbridge over the stream , here known as Gayle Beck . |
| 7 | From the Labyrinth 's south-west entrance a paved ramp , now eroded beyond recognition , led down to a bridge over the Vlychia stream ; on the south side this was supported on a finely built stone viaduct , which carried the road on south-eastwards along the north front of the Pilgrim Hostel and then southwards between yet more Minoan houses . |
| 8 | President Berisha , however , has given in to the nationalists over the question of property restitution . |
| 9 | A weak sun was rising off to the east over the distant buildings and its pale light was filtering through the branches of the trees about him . |
| 10 | after a swift , furtive glance at them , jumped the ditch on the other side of the lane and made off at a run over the fen . |
| 11 | The violence began on June 4 in the city of Osh , which had a majority Uzbek population , sparked off by a dispute over the use of farmland for housing ( the scarcity of housing in Central Asia had become a major political issue in recent years , and had already been a factor in ethnic violence between Uzbeks and Meskhetians in the nearby Fergana valley in June 1989 , and in rioting in Tadjikistan in February 1990 — see pp. 36744-45 ; 37256-57 ) . |
| 12 | Seemed all right at first , but came up like a balloon over the weekend . ’ |
| 13 | Tensions between right and left flared up in a dispute over the May 1968 by-election in the City of Londonderry constituency , and this helps to illuminate some of the characteristics of the Derry Labour left . |
| 14 | About half the companies set up in the UK over the last 10 years are no longer with us . |
| 15 | A demand for the ‘ noblest ’ architecture inevitably meant that Nonconformity was caught up in the debates over the value of Gothic architecture which went on for most of the Victorian period . |
| 16 | ‘ And the king was much moved , and went up to the chamber over the gate , and wept : and as he went , thus he said , O my son Absalom , my son , my son Absalom ! would God I had died for thee , O Absalom , my son , my son ! ’ |
| 17 | He was looking up at the sign over the door . |
| 18 | Hundreds of secret programs that had been built up by the CIA over the years , including data sensitive enough to topple the heads of half a dozen European governments if they were ever to fall into the wrong hands . |
| 19 | She has appealed to local people to give as many details as possible about the legends , history and myths which have grown up around the village over the years . |
| 20 | So er er th th there were some er quite substantial er discussions and debates which er which er which went on in the family over the years of course . |
| 21 | The man then rose , walked to the window , stared out for a while over the pinnacles of the City , turned and spoke . |
| 22 | No more than ten minutes ' walk from Celtic Crescent , in a wide drab street that was unserved by any tram route , its tall aspect , railed forecourt and large Star of David hewn out of the brickwork over the doors drew attention to its foreignness . |
| 23 | The first tutorial was on Saturday and someone who hopes to get something out of the course over the next 6 months is assistant medical administrator in Oxford Claire Flanagan . |
| 24 | ‘ What the hell ? ’ said Lydia , leaning indignantly out of the window over the door , like Rapunzel with a hair-cut . |
| 25 | All of them have come out of the time over the nineteen ninety three have all been employed by the company . |
| 26 | The war and everything , and that jumbo blown out of the skies over the Atlantic … ’ |
| 27 | Last week the Northern Regional Health Authority announced that 221 mentally handicapped people would be moved out of the hospital over the next three years . |
| 28 | There are some tantalising references to a defence of " fair information on a matter of public interest " , notably in the case of Webb v Times Publishing Co : Donald Hume murdered Stanley Setty , cut up his body and threw it out of an aircraft over the Essex marshes . |
| 29 | Messages go out like an arrow over the wood ; |
| 30 | I remember Otto mentioning that she entertained him there with Jean-Claude , and only later moved out into a room over the Café du Coin , to be nearer her ‘ young man ’ . |