Example sentences of "had a [noun sg] of [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Hellyer only came once a week and though Dad did some of the housework , shuffling round in the mornings and yawning , almost everything had a skin of dust over it and smelt mouldy , like furniture stored in an attic . |
| 2 | Her brown eyes now had a film of tears over them . |
| 3 | But there 's a couple of guys in another division over there that they were quite keen on er aircraft and they spent weeks building these bloody things and then er , and experienced flyer he 'd taken over to the other , other side of the estate when he had a bit of runway over there |
| 4 | The mill had a number of owners over the years , its major business starting when , by the 1860s , it was taken over by Reece and Sandford . |
| 5 | They had a number of fires over the years at 's Mill , er and one was in eighteen sixty six or sixty seven . |
| 6 | At the year end the group had an excess of liabilities over assets of £2.987m and was in breach of its main banking facilities . |