Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] [verb] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of the day was n't very clear to Benny because of the heavy cloud of disappointment that seemed to hang over the whole proceedings . |
| 2 | The child passengers gripped the broom while their arms pumped round in a rhythm , as their imaginary train gathered speed and went racing over the land . |
| 3 | He also thought of Dame Agatha 's smiling face before drifting into a dreamless sleep , leaving Ranulf and Maltote to argue over the fortunes of dice . |
| 4 | Fresh food is the most extreme example of the change that has come over the shops . |
| 5 | It indicates the change that has come over the world . |
| 6 | Nurse Catherine Cockborn said : ‘ The change that has come over the pair of them is absolutely amazing . |
| 7 | It is perhaps because of an effort to buck the trend towards an insufferable and market-conscious cleverness that we are witnessing an attempt amongst more committed narrators to seek out a way of dealing directly with the emotions , without all the paraphernalia of intrigue and description that has accumulated over the past few years . |
| 8 | Negligence can be thought of as an early form of product liability and has developed over the years to its present wide scope , although this is tempered to some extent by the growth of insurance . |
| 9 | Peony felt that she and her urgency were out of place in the holiday mood of bustly leisure that had settled over the drowsy little place . |
| 10 | The demons noticed the injured body and began to fly over the struggling figure . |
| 11 | In more exalted language than the everyday , they vowed to remember every blade of grass , every boulder on the shore , every drop of Baltic water that had splashed over the shingle at their feet , and every monument on the island : ‘ These are hallowed things ! ’ |
| 12 | This is the kind of thing that we really ought to be addressing because this actually addresses the safety of people in this county , not only the safety of people , this addresses the safety of property as well and there 's no disagreement about the fact that this enormous development that 's happened over the last few years in an area where you 've got a regular traffic snarl-ups mean that you have got a potential disaster there on your hands and we 're jolly lucky we have n't any more serious incidents than we 've had already and so I can see no reason why these two mo these two amendments should n't both happily be accepted though I 'm very cynical about the number of times we 've spent the airport money already and sooner or later we 've obviously got to actually seriously address that but the important thing is that we do all take it seriously and it seems that we all do now take it seriously . |
| 13 | This study examines specific resources — various types of labour , capital and materials — used by the hospital sector to quantify the degree of substitution that has occurred over the period 1951 to 1981 . |
| 14 | But he could not resist holding the bird up to his desk lamp , so that the light ran across the surface and seemed to flow over the edges in crimson flame . |
| 15 | The dog that had jumped over the fence into Jubilee Wood had n't been wearing a collar . |
| 16 | After all , this hundred young women have all benefited from the open , healthy , society that 's developed over the last few decades , or have they ? |
| 17 | With the fury that had accumulated over the years I pulled up some onions and flung them at him . |
| 18 | I have enjoyed reading all your letters and look forward to continuing the two-way communication that has developed over the past year . |
| 19 | Bourassa 's view of the package was overwhelmingly endorsed by a special 4,000-member Liberal Party convention in Quebec on Aug. 29-30 , at which the provincial Premier gave a powerful performance and promised to win over the population of Quebec at the October referendum . |
| 20 | The availability of water is the main constraint on food production and while traditional shifting cultivation and nomadic practices are inherently conservation-oriented , the trend towards permanent cultivation and settled herding over the last 50 years has led to widespread environmental change . |
| 21 | Sir John had been a Conservative councillor and had presided over the National Industrial Relations Court for the two and a half years of its existence during the Heath administration . |
| 22 | Hence , although this project will document both what employers do now on training and plan to do over the medium-term future , the inquiry has an intent which is ‘ educative ’ rather than aiming merely for either purely ‘ descriptive ’ or ‘ prescriptive ’ results . |
| 23 | At bottom this division is based on the fact that he is at one and the same time part of the natural order — along with the elements , plants and animals — yet also a spiritual and personal being who feels a destiny and calling to rule over the natural world . |
| 24 | Her frantic anxiety gave Marie extra strength : it was only her brute force that dragged the drum back when it skidded off the path and began to slither over the grass down towards the channel . |
| 25 | Erm , on entertainment , we 're spending a lot of money on organic growth and have done over the past two or three years and er , it 's very well spent but again , we 're growing our businesses , erm , er , rather than acquiring them . |
| 26 | Other Diamond kites — the Ace , Trlby , Zig-Zag , Rainbow , Hyperkites Ghostie , Blazer , Brookite Stunters and Dunford Stingray — have carried on that first generation with low-cost products that perform impressively for any novice and have served over the years to bring so many into the kite fraternity . |
| 27 | Your own , personalized weight control programme has not been a sudden thing but has evolved over a long period of time . |
| 28 | It was an affectation that had developed over the years . |
| 29 | Sheldon Krimsky 's book stems from this study , but in the light of the other books devoted to this same goal that have appeared over the past five years , it is worth considering what Genetic Alchemy adds to previous efforts . |
| 30 | Nahum 's smile swept away the air of apprehensive gloom that had hung over the cottage since Anna 's latest decline . |