Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [noun] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lesley Harrison , 29 , was knifed by a taxi passenger as she stepped between him and the driver during a row over the fare . |
| 2 | And ‘ it ’ might be a frantic drive down the coast for a weekend over the border into Mexico , or a trip into the wine-growing country beyond the Berkeley hills , or trying a new recipe involving chocolate sauce and lobster claws or something equally revolting . |
| 3 | Whisk the eggs , sugar and vanilla essence in a bowl over a pan of hot water until the mixture holds a trail . |
| 4 | THE French Grand Prix was yesterday restored to the 1993 Formula One schedule after settlement of a dispute over an anti-smoking law . |
| 5 | The failure to engage in that kind of self-reflection was part of a self-assurance over the wider common culture . |
| 6 | The Hawaiian Islands provide a classic example of a volcanic line , and the generally accepted explanation of this type of feature involves the passage of part of a plate over a sub-lithospheric thermal anomaly which , through the periodic generation of magma in the overlying crust sequence of volcanic activity at the surface ( Fig |
| 7 | Perhaps the other girl did n't mind being part of a deal over a vineyard . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's been a bit of a crisis over the weekend — some vital supplies have been held up — and , apparently , my presence is urgently required . ’ |
| 9 | If he did so intend then , in the case of a child over the age of 16 , his interpretation of the law was inconsistent with the express words of section 8(3) of the Act of 1969 . |
| 10 | IN THESE days when money is scarce for most rugby clubs Morley earned themselves £1,500 on the toss of a coin over the weekend . |
| 11 | Alan Jones , 29 , poured petrol through the letterbox of his girlfriend Christine Smith 's home after a row over a burger . |
| 12 | A little breeze had got up and the bottom of a blind over an open window was being knocked on the sill . |
| 13 | Suggest other situations where there is scope for ‘ fiddling ’ based on the superior knowledge of the provider of a service over the customer . |
| 14 | One earlier example is of the cross-in-square type with a dome over the crossing . |
| 15 | ‘ You … you — ’ He stopped shouting and his mouth dropped open as he saw Dickon pushing a boy in a wheelchair over the grass towards him . |
| 16 | Mail-enabled spreadsheets allow you to send your work to a colleague over a network . |
| 17 | There were girls fixing their make-up at a mirror over the mantelpiece , or scanning notices on the board — items for sale , extra tuition offered , rooms to share , sodalities to join . |
| 18 | Soft ground would put stamina at a premium over the twelve furlongs , and doubts about Sir Ivor 's getting the trip contributed to Piggott 's tactics . |
| 19 | He received Mark in the central lobby and took him to the Members ' tea room for a chat over a pot of tea . |
| 20 | The question placed me in danger of a box over the ear from the broken-nosed physics master who , despite his pugnacious appearance , failed to keep order in any class . |
| 21 | His description of the recovery of a Hunter over a Swiss airshow served as another graphic reminder that a performance should emphasize the aircraft 's character but should utilize only the established skills of the pilot — and should never require his super-human efforts to get out of a situation . |
| 22 | But this time Hardy went straight on to the attack , putting Holmes on the canvas with a right over the top for an initial count of seven . |
| 23 | " Well , Kate ? " he said in his study , a small room with a cross over the mantelpiece . |
| 24 | A TOP boss of the German Daimler-Benz firm is quitting his £300,000 a year job in a row over a neo-Nazi flag . |
| 25 | A TOP boss of the German Daimler-Benz firm is quitting his Pounds 300,000-a-year job in a row over a neo-Nazi flag . |
| 26 | Mr Boyle was alleged to have struck him with the crowbar in a row over the sale of T-shirts . |
| 27 | In the afternoon it was the same two Spaniards who led the home team to a whitewash over the visitors . |
| 28 | An investigation 's been launched into how three American bombers from an airbase in the region were involved in a near miss with a helicopter over the North Sea . |
| 29 | If experiments such as creep or stress relaxation are performed on the same sample of a polymer over a range of temperatures a pattern of behaviour is apparent that as long ago as 1943 led to the proposal of a " master curve " to which all observations could be reduced . |
| 30 | The row over Landsat equipment comes on top of a dispute over a ground station that China has set up in Peking , with American help , for receiving data from US and Japanese meteorological satellites . |