Example sentences of "[pers pn] over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Corsages were kept in a little drop of water , ’ Harry explained , ‘ but you ca n't plunge a bouquet in a drop of water , so I put them over a bowl of water supported by two canes . |
| 2 | Rub sugar lumps on to the peel of the lemons , holding them over a bowl , until each lump starts crumbling , then start on another . |
| 3 | We took about £150m out of them over a couple of years . ’ |
| 4 | After we 've seen the patients , I 'll tell you more about them over a drink . ’ |
| 5 | This is the so-called ‘ poverty-trap ’ of the lower paid : a small increase in earning takes them over a threshold , whereby they may lose certain welfare benefits and at the same time have to pay a disproportionately large increase in tax on their original income . |
| 6 | When the ideas of the French Revolution concerning the rights of nations to self-government reached the Slovenes , they already had many of the attributes of a modern nation , but it was to take them over a century to achieve a form of self-determination within the wider Yugoslav state . |
| 7 | Littering the slopes of the volcano are thousands of large bombs ejected by the eruption , some of them over a metre in diameter . |
| 8 | However , the route takes them over a culvert near the hospital . |
| 9 | I had wrung out the Spidersuit and Y-fronts and hung them over a Bible suck thinking how He would just have to lump a bare arse on His books for one night . |
| 10 | You have them over a barrel on this issue , with all the right on your side . |
| 11 | A better approach is to adopt a serial approach and solve them over a number of stages . |
| 12 | The whole House will want to congratulate the British miners on doing everything that has been asked of them over a number of years and achieving that massive increase in productivity . |
| 13 | Shall we discuss them over a cup of coffee ? ’ |
| 14 | Forest-living Indians catch them and roast them over a fire so that the poison drips from their skins . |
| 15 | Harvest the seeds in July-August by cutting the seedheads just before the first seeds start to fall , and hanging them over a tray in a dry airy place . |
| 16 | He just worked you over a bit , put you in hospital , big man ! ’ |
| 17 | Taking anti-depressants to get you over a hump like this makes the same sort of sense as using a crutch to get around on while a broken leg heals . |
| 18 | There oh I 'll have to bring her over a bit . |
| 19 | I also wormed her over a course of three weeks , and watched her slowly put on weight . |
| 20 | She might feel compelled to attack him physically at any moment and he was alarming enough to convince her that he would lift her in the air , shake her like a rag doll and toss her over a crag . |
| 21 | The route was taking her over a highway that twisted and turned across central North Island mountain ranges where the air was fresh and clear . |
| 22 | Gold Blend beauty Sharon Maughan finally gets her man when co-star Tony Head declares his love for her over a coffee . |
| 23 | He was staring at her over a tray of empty glasses . |
| 24 | They murdered a woman , cut her throat , after they brutally sliced her breasts , raped and burnt her over a fire ! ’ |
| 25 | However , the strong current carried her away , sweeping her over a weir where the boat overturned . |
| 26 | Nurse Jones was a busy woman and he valued the minutes he had with her over a cup of tea when she came down from the bedroom . |
| 27 | She threw him over a wall . |
| 28 | She threw him over a wall . |
| 29 | The most I can hope for is that I might meet him over a pint and get him to be indiscreet-tell me if there is any dirt on Desmond Seymour-Strachey , for example . ’ |
| 30 | Then they threw him over a precipice . |