Example sentences of "on [art] [noun sg] over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We used to play marbles in the alley-way together , and sail paper boats down the gutter when it rained , and we 'd spent all our hot summers together playing rounders on the field over the railway line and helping with the donkey-rides on the beach . |
| 2 | It relied heavily on Baldwin 's leadership and on the success over the years in persuading the new democracy not to be seduced by socialist abstractions , trade union militancy or Liberal demagogy , but to accept Conservative values as the guarantee of liberty and secure social improvement . |
| 3 | It was a rare study ; most precipitation analyses of late have concentrated on a sexier topic , acid rain ( which also appears to be on the rise over the Chesapeake ) . |
| 4 | 2 ) If you use a ‘ projector marker ’ type pen , you can cross out the rows worked and make notes re : shapings on the perspex over the picture grid . |
| 5 | On the wall over the desk was a print of Munch 's " Scream " . |
| 6 | The prints on the walls were dark and undistinguished , and the large , gilded mirror on the wall over the marble fireplace was speckled . |
| 7 | Languages represented on the Certificate over the years have ranged from the more predictable European ones to Urdu , Hindi , Bengali , Chinese ( Mandarin and Cantonese ) , Japanese , Danish , Russian as well as English . |
| 8 | And when because the family doctor really know whe anything that was happening but was holding on the phone over the phone , oh he 's got a pain you know . |
| 9 | This necessarily brief account has concentrated on the debate over the retirement condition between 1908 and 1948 , and the curious ‘ complicity ’ of the labour movement in demanding a measure that was to confirm the economic uselessness of old people . |
| 10 | These five workers have been forced to become adept at tackling the complete range of jobs which may arise on the farm over the year . |
| 11 | At the same moment , a drumming and scraping of feet on the bridge over the moat signalled the arrival of the estate workers from the cottages outside the manor wall … |
| 12 | One has only to stand on the bridge over the Trannon at Trefeglwys and look upstream to see the stable narrow river coursing elegantly between its magnificent borders of ash and sycamore , and compare this with the immediate downstream reach , which wanders amidst a waste of gravel . |
| 13 | Pigs may have spent some time with the swineherd in the distant woodland , but part of the wood would have been cropped for fuel , poles , wood for repairs to buildings , fences , implements and so on , while a few trees may have been cut down for constructional work on the bridge over the Yeo or to build a new house . |
| 14 | I breakfast quickly , drinking several cups of tea , knowing that in this wind I need to avoid dehydration on the grind over the pass . |
| 15 | For example , on the controversy over the removal of frontier controls , Britain 's Commissioner proposed that controls should be replaced with police and Customs officer powers to check any traveller on suspicion of drugs or terrorist offences . |
| 16 | The verdict came as an immense relief for Mr Major , who put his job on the line over the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 17 | That we really are putting a tremendous number of people on the street over the course of the year , erm that the general public are facing . |
| 18 | Under the waterfa oh by the way he fell and hit his face on the concrete over the caravan , he 's got a bit of a grazed nose . |
| 19 | Going back to when you were on watch on the dredger over the weekends , did it ever feel lonely ? |
| 20 | The French Grand Prix that year was at Dijon , high on a plateau over the city and a race that , for one reason or another , had always favoured the French . |
| 21 | He was soon running errands for half a crown a day , sleeping on a board over the bath and doing Musgrave a favour by playing the toyboy to his wife . |
| 22 | The company chose Spanish-speaking Americans as its target market , but the watch 's memory can display common phrases in five different languages on a screen over the time display . |
| 23 | On Oct. 31 at the opening of a border crossing between Azerbaijan and Turkey on a bridge over the Arax river , 10,000 people seeking asylum crossed into Turkey and two were killed , according to the newspaper , Nezavisimaya gazeta . |
| 24 | FOOD giant Safeway have paid £1,500 for bunting on a bridge over the Thames in Reading , Berks — so swans do n't fly into the stonework . |
| 25 | The situation reminded me of an announcement made on a flight over the Himalayas . |
| 26 | The first issue before us , as it was before Thorpe J. , was whether Parliament had , by section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 , conferred on a minor over the age of 16 years an absolute right to refuse medical treatment , in which case the limitation of the court 's inherent jurisdiction exemplified by A. v. Liverpool City Council [ 1982 ] A.C. 363 would have operated so as to preclude any intervention by the court . |
| 27 | One of the few things he could instantly recall from his own brief marriage was his wife 's grilling a kipper on a gridiron over the fire . |
| 28 | On a shelf over the bed were Lizzy 's dolls from childhood . |
| 29 | The adjoining bathroom was equally clean and ready for use , with towels on a rail , and razor and shaving brush on a shelf over the basin . |
| 30 | In the end he went for a small Monet , a house on a cliff-side over the sea , surrounded by flowers . |