Example sentences of "[art] [noun] of [noun] over her " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hector , passive , repeated in a whisper the Lament of Maeve over her lover . |
| 2 | Julia came round just as he was erecting a kind of tent over her bed . |
| 3 | She had to get her hands back on the reins , had to re-establish at least a degree of control over her own life . |
| 4 | Jacqueline Bridger , 46 , poured a can of petrol over her head in the office of Michael Sargeant , the man she claimed had been her lover , the Old Bailey was told . |
| 5 | BELVILLE : A wife should draw a sort of veil over her husband 's faults . |
| 6 | It was clear that she saw the drift of his question but her answer was simple : ‘ Granny seemed to exercise a sort of spell over her sons , her husband too , I think . |
| 7 | Theda had been obliged to retire from the room after receiving a deluge of dust over her person when attacking the top of a wide dresser . |
| 8 | ( 1986b ) for the link between childhood lack of care , premarital pregnancy and adult risk of depression , for instance , was that the early adversities militated against the child developing a sense of control over her life , and exercising it . |
| 9 | The shock and mystery of two tragic and violent deaths jostled for attention with a sense of uncertainty over her future relationship with Barney . |
| 10 | How we bury people , how we marry people — First Spiritualists are always married as close to 3 February as possible , and , when the bride has made her vows , someone pours a bottle of milk over her head ( ‘ to feed her young ’ ) — how we pray , how we hang sheets out of the upstairs window to celebrate a birth , how we seem so utterly and completely deranged and yet feel so utterly and completely sane . |