Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pos pn] [noun] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And unless you 're one of Charity LeVille 's nubile masseuses over from Gros Islet … ’ he 'd reached the bed , and to her horror slung his jacket over a nearby chair and sat down on the edge of the bed , far too close for comfort , continuing in the same bland tone , ‘ … which from the pious clutching of bedclothes I somehow doubt , maybe you 'd like to explain exactly who you are ? ’ |
| 2 | The break lasted twenty minutes ; but it was not a complete break for the horseman for he was still in charge of the horses ; and as they were not feeding they sometimes got restless , especially in the summer-time when the flies worried them and sometimes caused a horse to get his foot over a trace . |
| 3 | James Palmer , who bungled an attempt to push his neighbour over a cliff in Exmouth , Devon , was jailed yesterday by Bristol Crown Court for 10 years . |
| 4 | A standard technique that has stood the test of time is to analyse all paper work crossing your desk over a period of say a month . |
| 5 | Front running involves a broker/dealer using his control over a customer 's order to deal ahead of that order for his own benefit . |
| 6 | For Otto the Great , crowned in Aachen in 936 , Charlemagne and his capital were key elements in his effort to legitimise his ascendancy over a rabble of dukes , princelings and petty kings . |
| 7 | In contrast , the heteropolymer increases its disorder over a wide temperature range ( as the temperature is increased from well below T m to just below T m ) with an associated loss in electrostatic interactions . |