Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] over a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The King added that he knew MacDonald could depend on Conservative and Liberal support , and he agreed to preside over a meeting of the three party leaders on the following day . |
| 2 | He did n't want to talk about it , and muttered that he 'd resigned over a matter of principle concerning next year 's timetable . |
| 3 | My father still had full use of both his legs at the time , and had to use them to run up and down from kitchen or lounge to the bedroom and back when Agnes rang the little bells sewn into the bell-bottoms of her jeans , which lay draped over a chair by the side of the bed . |
| 4 | And to Carole 's annoyance , Hyacinth Scragg had not turned up , despite the reminder she had received over a cup of tea at the conference centre . |
| 5 | To pass the time , the conversation had ranged over a variety of topics , from sport to current affairs , then had finally settled after some time on shop-talk — inevitable when any group of cops got together anywhere in the world . |
| 6 | In that capacity he had presided over a campaign against corruption , and more positively over a relaxation of the restrictions upon private trade and local government . |
| 7 | Eisenhower had presided over a period of grim Cold War tension which he , like most Americans , believed had been caused by the ambitions of world communism . |
| 8 | It was no longer that he had been a member of the murder gang , but that he had presided over a meeting of UDA officers in order to plan it . |