Example sentences of "[pron] [be] over a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To leave Islington , to leave Stroud Green Road , to leave a flat which was over a shop overlooking a main shopping centre , overlooking a completely noisy main through road to come to Harlow was a difference between chalk and cheese . |
| 2 | You are , you 're over a street ahead . |
| 3 | We 're over a day late because of the blizzards . ’ |
| 4 | One was slung over my shoulder one had got sort of between two limbs I suspect , holding it round the back like that , and another one was over a protrusion that just seemed handy to hold the lot , and as I walked down the street of course suddenly everybody was glancing at me and I realized what I appeared to be doing . |
| 5 | " It 's over a night and a day now and I 'm dropping . " |
| 6 | ‘ Yet it 's over a month since we had the news . |
| 7 | This month has gone so quickly it 's difficult to believe it 's over a month since we left the U.K. |
| 8 | it is over a decade since the last major restructuring of the departments of government . |
| 9 | The advertising is in black-and-white and is authentically ‘ French ’ — concentrating on moments or happenings in which French people , young and old , are enjoying their Janneau as a part of their everyday life — relaxed with that indefinable French quality of style which instils ordinary events with a particular panache , whether it be over a meal or simple as a complement to civilised living at any time of day . |
| 10 | And I always like doing business with a man who knows he 's over a barrel . |
| 11 | It was over a decade later that the link between ‘ personal troubles ’ and ‘ public issues of social structure ’ of clinical depression and women 's daily experience was demonstrated ( Brown and Harris , 1978 ) . |
| 12 | Their enthusiasm remains as infectious in the 90s as it was over a decade ago and we proudly welcome them to the Guinness Spot for their first and keenly anticipated visit to Belfast . |
| 13 | when I lost my weight with slimming we were try I was losing two pounds a week and I were n't starving , I was still drinking and it come off and I lost , I lost about I think it was about eighteen pounds , it was over a stone . |
| 14 | It was over a fortnight now since they 'd last met , outside the office . |
| 15 | Otherwise it is as complete as it was over a century ago , with no less than 700 lots being offered for sale in two parts . |
| 16 | It was over a titbit on the floor and occurred after a period when they growled at each other at feeding time . |
| 17 | Then he was over a railway line , over a wood ; out of sight and reach of the guns . |