Example sentences of "[vb past] over [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time Ceauşescu first visited the Soviet capital , the new wedding-cake skyscrapers of the University and the Foreign Ministry , along with less outlandish and more uncomfortable blocks of flats , towered over the ancient heart of Muscovy . |
| 2 | Along the top of the bank was the Ben Tee path , leading to a stile and wending up by the burn — rather than towards the peak — so I just headed over the dried-out moor for the steady ascent to the summit . |
| 3 | As the argument continued behind closed doors , a row erupted over the huge cost of Newall 's arrest and detention , estimated at more than £1 million . |
| 4 | On Channel 2 , the unctuous host of the Gerry Springer chat show had apparently taken a serious oil overdose as he presided over a freak show of truly terrible cases of giantism and dwarfism by telling his goggle-eyed studio viewers they were each of them there ‘ so that next time we may understand and empathise when we meet a woman 7ft 10ins tall . ’ |
| 5 | Mr Portillo , at 38 the youngest Cabinet member since Dr David Owen , who was also 38 when he was made Foreign Secretary in 1977 , replaces Mr David Mellor , the new Heritage Minister , who presided over a significant increase in public spending in the run up to the election . |
| 6 | At Christie 's , Noel Annesley presided over a satisfactory auction with his customary skill , a failing voice enhancing , rather than diminishing , his dry humour which maintained the momentum of the sale . |
| 7 | She has challenged certain long-established political assumptions : that a government could not be re-elected if it presided over a massive increase in unemployment ; or that a government had to govern with the consent and co-operation of the major interests , particularly business and the unions . |
| 8 | The Yang brothers had taken a prominent part in quelling the " turmoil " in mid-1989 and presided over a massive programme of political education within the army . |
| 9 | He talked about St. Paulinus and St. Aidan and visited Whitby where — all those years ago — St. Hilda presided over a double monastery of men and women . |
| 10 | The first reigned during a period of complex political change , and presided over the difficult transition from the Roman Republic and the civil wars which brought it to an end to the monarchical system which became the Roman empire ; Nero 's reign marks the abandonment of the pattern which had been established by Augustus . |
| 11 | After the disruptions of 1792-9 Rey presided over the artistic re-establishment of the Opéra . |
| 12 | Despite opposition to the duality of his role and criticism of his creating a judgeship for his brother-in-law , Douglas presided over the steady growth of company and colony . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , IBM Corp shares plunged $5.50 to $72.50 on the day the company reported a stunning net loss after charges for the third quarter of $2,778m last week and scepticism rose over the prompt promise in the analysts ' call after the announcement that the dividend is safe . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd go mad if I worked here — absolutely around the bend ! ’ the reporter shouted over the blaring noise of the loudspeakers , which were relaying market information to the other dealers in the large office . |
| 15 | Homes in east Kent were flooded and abandoned cars tossed in the air as the sea crashed over the coastal road at Sandgate . |
| 16 | A heavy swell pounded and cascaded over the broken pier at the narrow entrance as we made a hair-raising dash through to keep steerage way . |
| 17 | At the Chair he pricked his ears and sailed over the gaping ditch with such abandon that he pecked slightly on the landing side . |
| 18 | Her fingers felt the warmth of his skin through the silk of the shirt and innocently lingered over the heavy beat of his heart . |
| 19 | They had turned as if by common consent to go back into the cottage when the lights of a car , driven fast , came over the southern rise of the road . |
| 20 | If messages came over the secret encoder about military supplies for the contras , ‘ I would scan it and pass it on . |
| 21 | Just before dawn the sound of a voice singing came over the darkened expanse of what had once been the Residency compound from the direction of what had once been the Cutcherry . |
| 22 | After peeling the rest of the scalp backwards , they pored over the well-demarcated fracture in the skull . |
| 23 | As Government and British Coal lawyers last night pored over the fine print of Lord Justice Glidewell 's surprise decision , Board of Trade President Michael Heseltine faced an avalanche of calls to quit the Cabinet . |
| 24 | Firelight danced over the powerful musculature of his body as he bent to retrieve the box . |
| 25 | Some mornings we galloped over the open plain below the Legation ; at that hour the tracks were threaded with groups of villagers on their way to market in Addis Ababa . |
| 26 | She clambered over the mossy wall at the bottom of the garden and edged round a shed . |
| 27 | In the middle of the morning a reporter climbed over the low fence into Mr Lawson 's garden and rang his entry phone . |
| 28 | Claudia could never believe she was as lovely as the girl in the picture whose cloud of shining golden-brown hair flowed over the translucent skin of her shoulders like a caress . |
| 29 | The heavy panels gave way at last beneath her fingers and she lurched out on to the terrace , crossed it , then raced over the wide sweep of lawn . |
| 30 | The six-year-old triumphed over the Scottish track in July , running on strongly to beat Minizen Music over five furlongs on heavy ground . |