Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [art] [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman looked at them for a moment over the book she had pulled from the shelf . |
| 2 | He was silly to tell me about the date over the door . |
| 3 | The army Captain taught the Commander the knack of hoisting himself aboard a canoe over its stern , and how to vault astride one steadied by a paddler already aboard . |
| 4 | The poet , playwright and painter , Stanislaw Wyspiański ( 1869–1907 ) , saw himself as the bridge over the confused gulf that separated the Polish intelligentsia and the peasantry , the perfect representative of the Young Poland movement that contained all the bitterness of repeated national defeats , all the resignation of patriots who felt they could change nothing , and all the compromised hopes for material change that the Positivists saw in Poland 's potential industrial wealth under foreign rule . |
| 5 | Nicholas Dyer is imagined as the builder of Nicholas Hawksmoor 's churches in the East End of London ; the enlightened edifices of a rational Christianity are thereby ascribed to a devil-worshipper , while the name ‘ Hawksmoor ’ is assigned to the Detective Chief Superintendent who , in the later narrative , frets himself into a delirium over a series of stranglings which takes place in the vicinity of the churches . |
| 6 | Instead he read a paper he 'd bought in Trieste and forgotten to throw away , immersing himself in a debate over the council 's delay in resurfacing the streets in an outlying zone of the city until it was time to go to work . |
| 7 | He came into the room with a broad grin on his face and could hardly wait to tell me that not only had he managed to approach several people at work and ask them questions , but that he had decided to put himself to the test over the last few days and had , in fact , gone up to complete strangers in the street to ask them the time . |
| 8 | The European Patent Office has got itself into a mess over these issues because it has proceeded to patent life forms without first examining properly whether the EPC , when interpreted as it was originally intended , actually allows the patents the patent office has granted . |
| 9 | I 'll see you in the pub over the road — first one you come to . ’ |
| 10 | It started in 1976 and it says something about the timescale over which these sorts of things have to be planned that the first results of any value appeared 16 years later . |
| 11 | But Garry Manning 's death in the RAF Hercules crash in Scotland last week , left something of a cloud over this year 's event . |
| 12 | It would represent a very small minority in a government , one with no influence over policy . ’ |
| 13 | We were neither of us getting any younger , but he was a good few years older than I and I was the one with the roof over my head . |
| 14 | Anyway , I thought you took it on yourself to see to everything in the house over there ? |
| 15 | Instead , I lay the garment out flat on the table and place one heavy book over the top of the neck edge and one at the bottom over the rib to stretch it a little . |
| 16 | Place them in a bowl over a pan of simmering water . |
| 17 | at them in the kitchen over the sink , |
| 18 | We had the travelling opera roond : we buried them in the field over there . ’ |
| 19 | She had had to wean herself off the dope over a period of years , and still felt the occasional urge for a H-9 hit . |
| 20 | When a large debt issue is undertaken , the Bank will underwrite a large proportion of the issue and slowly sell them to the market over a period of time to avoid excess supply of government debt . |
| 21 | He and his wife , Hannie , were living apart when , she said , he attacked her during an argument over financial support . |
| 22 | We could see him behind the grille over the heads of the crowd . |
| 23 | Another hurrying figure bumped into him , narrowly missing him with the blade over its shoulder . |
| 24 | Sir William Herbert of Swansea was fined 1,000 marks in Star Chamber for disorderly riots in Cardiff ; Edward , Lord Stafford , refused to allow the sheriff of Shropshire to execute judgement against him in a dispute over Cawes Castle ; Sir Thomas Throckmorton of Tortworth , Gloucestershire , was fined 2,000 marks and removed from his offices for accepting bribes and maintaining quarrels . |
| 25 | You 'll probably find her in the tent over there — or perhaps that one . ’ |
| 26 | Sometimes he fell in a landslide on Finn , clouting him round the head over the dinner table when Finn 's insouciant insolence went too far . |
| 27 | ‘ He 'll manage twenty-five miles or so by nightfall , and that will bring him to the stream over there called the Carron , with a dozen miles of forest and boggy ground between himself and the main river-crossing . |
| 28 | By closing time the place was like an alcoholic Turkish bath , and leaving it for the trip over Stonesdale Moor in the lashing rain was a sore wrench indeed . |
| 29 | Quickly they built it into a pyramid over the torch . |
| 30 | Break up the chocolate and put it in a bowl over a saucepan of simmering water . |