Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun sg] [verb] over [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Scottish gentlemen followed military careers in the service of the United Provinces of the Netherlands as well as in that of their own country , and political influence extended over the North Sea to include the Scots-Dutch regiments . |
2 | A Castle Air Force-based B-52 , a Travis-based C-141 , and a Beale TR-1 spyplane each made high and low speed passes over the field . |
3 | I listened all day , from the bright , undemanding getting-up-time music to the midnight news , at that terrible hour , owl-season , when newspapers have been put to bed and cold skin grows over the country 's cocoa . |
4 | And all the time the big grey waves lifted the Forfarshire up and down , and white water blew over the deck . |
5 | It must have cost her quite a bit too , taking on a man who looks like I look , his fat shoulders and heavy head tensed over the spectacle of her lost or twisted sisters . |
6 | Patterns of erosion , sedimentation and igneous activity recorded over the area during this period seem to be consistent with a migrating region of uplift related to the track of this hot spot . |
7 | A similar area rich in both environmental and archaeological heritage lies over the Guatemalan frontier . |
8 | The budget for 1991 allocates the first tranche of the ¥455 trillion ( $3.4 trillion ) that the government has agreed to spend on roads , railways , airports , housing , drains and other public works over the coming decade . |
9 | Drivers of Italian heavy goods vehicles began a blockade of customs posts at the border with Austria on Sept. 13 , 1989 , causing tailbacks of several thousand lorries at the Brenner Pass and other crossing points over the next eight days . |