Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun] over a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He draped his wet clothes over a chair in front of the stove and ladled rice and beans on to two plates . |
| 2 | Remarkably , given his evident potential over a distance that is far from overloaded with British success , Solly 's lean years brought little evidence of concern in official circles within the sport itself . |
| 3 | Mr Goria quit after persistent slurs over his alleged role over a bank collapse 17 years ago and a bribery probe into the building of hospital in his northern constituency of Asti , his ministry said . |
| 4 | Nigel Lawson enrolled in the Clark Gable ‘ Frankly , I do n't give a damn ’ school when he fell foul of his own party over a rise in interest rates just before the Tory conference . |
| 5 | Stoats , weasels and polecats were the more obvious of these and man , being the innovator that he is , may well have captured , tamed and adapted some of these animals for his own purposes over a period of centuries . |
| 6 | As late as 1812 the French representative in Naples fought a duel with his Russian colleague over a question of precedence ; and his doing so was officially approved in Paris . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , having called for boiling water and cleansed his best knife over a candle flame , he took the risk . |
| 8 | His great courage at the time eventually earned him the Military Cross , but the harrowing experience was for a long while foremost in his mind and symbolized by the walk back to his commanding officer over a mass of dead German and British soldiers in which his feet scarcely touched the ground . |