Example sentences of "with [pron] [noun] over [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 've been self-employed since five minutes after Lucifer 's fall , and can fork out the massive outlay required , you might just find a way to bribe yourself on to the single-ticket waiting list ; if you belong to a small , minor-league organisation , your company will probably club together with several others to rent a cheap and jerry-built booth in one of the minor outbuildings , and argue with its partners over a tiny allocation of entry passes , whose holders will be consigned to overpriced lodgings in distant and inconvenient suburbs . |
| 2 | It is worth adding at this point , in the context of discussion of the cost burden of the elderly , that according to further calculations by David Thomson ( 1987 ) based on Family Expenditure Survey data , the share of national resources going to the elderly has not risen proportionately with their numbers over the past two decades . |
| 3 | The referee made a sweeping gesture with his arm over the prostrate figure of the white fighter . |
| 4 | ‘ Sometimes this is not popular with fans , but no-one can argue with our progress over the past two years and our present position . ’ |
| 5 | The staff of the Unit continues largely unchanged , though we have been pleased to have had four postdoctorals associated with our activities over the past year or so . |