Example sentences of "[noun] 's [noun] [noun] over " in BNC.

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1 like a horse 's nose bag over your shoulder
2 When Neil Jenkins was asked after his side 's quarter-final victory over Cardiff High School Old Boys ( also known as Cardiff Harlequins ) , which club he would like to see Pontypridd avoid in the semi-finals , he replied that he would like to miss out on Swansea and Llanelli .
3 THE TCCB are to take legal advice on Tuesday 's court ruling over ‘ rainy day ’ refunds .
4 Mr Zivkovic , a draughtsman who lived in Britain for 24 years after the war but now lives in Tasmania , Australia , was giving evidence for the defence in Lord Aldington 's libel action over allegations by Mr Nikolai Tolstoy and Mr Nigel Watts that he is a war criminal responsible for the forced repatriation of 70,000 Cossacks and Yugoslavs .
5 The judge had earlier given leave for Dr Odling-Smee to be called to give evidence for the defence in Lord Aldington 's libel action over allegations in a pamphlet that he is a war criminal responsible for the forced repatriation of 70,000 Cossacks and Yugoslavs who surrendered to the British in southern Austria in May 1945 .
6 Commanche Run 's neck victory over Baynoun in the 1984 St Leger gave Piggott his twenty-eighth Classic , breaking the record previously held by Frank Buckle with twenty-seven wins between 1792 and 1827 .
7 Bomb threats by the Basque separatist group ETA disrupted Spain 's rail system over the Aug. 3-4 holiday weekend for the third year in succession .
8 From the child 's viewpoint arguments over management are largely irrelevant .
9 Having plumped for Hewlett-Packard Co 's PA RISC over the Intel i860 — ‘ because of price/performance ’ — for its next generation of systems , Stratus plans no further computers using the i860 at this time , but says that depends to some extent on whether Intel manages another iteration of its RISC .
10 He began by saying that with the UK vehicle division 's track record over recent years , he could n't really expect to receive any support to the plan he was about to describe .
11 This guidance note has brought into the open a range of contentious issues that have been debated in correspondence and at meetings between the Faculty and the Department of Social Security 's Policy Division over the last 12 months .
12 Oils , impasted thickly onto large canvases , layer over layer , spread like butter , then gouged to show the textures and folds of paint already lying beneath , have dominated Dariusz Romanowski 's painting style over the last couple of years .
13 The display features a time-tunnel showing the changes which have taken place in the Royal DutchShell group 's shipping arm over the last century .
14 Another is whether German airmen can stay in NATO 's reconnaissance aircraft over Bosnia .
15 The capture of the huge East India contract signalled Williams 's market success over the cartel , just as Sir Nicholas Bayly 's successor , the second Earl of Uxbridge ( later first Marquis of Anglesey , q.v. ) , decided to mine the mines originally discovered with Williams as managing partner , thus giving the lawyer management of all the Anglesey mines .
16 ‘ It 's the next generation of electric white boy blues/Come on indie rock ! ’ yells Seb 's Lou Barlow over a hilariously generic sludge-out .
17 He was wearing Maxim 's car coat over his thin shirt , but his shoes were still canvas and the ground beyond the fence was a mudpond laced with sharp lumps of concrete and old ironwork .
18 The two killings are part of a vicious power struggle within the Irish People 's Liberation Organisation over a huge drugs racket in West Belfast .
19 The aim of this research is to investigate empirically the variations in Britain 's strike activity over time and the variations between Britain and other EEC countries in the post-war period .
20 Even though the decline will be succeeded by a modest rise , Britain 's dependency ratio over the next 40 years should rise by only eight percentage points , to 31% .
21 The narrow road towards Thorgill ducked and dived under the lip of Thorgill Crag , with a splendid view of the old Rosedale Railway — a 19th century standard gauge railway built to transport the valley 's mineral wealth over the moors to Middlesbrough .
22 There are times when barbel are so preoccupied with whatever business they have at hand , whether it be feeding , spawning , or just browsing , you can stand on the river 's edge right over the top of them and watch them without them taking fright and scurrying off .
23 Sir Richard , however , watched Athelstan 's quill skim over the piece of vellum .
24 You do not need a degree in statistics to see what has happened to the firm 's trading profit over this six year period .
25 And for the beach , Descamps ' Regatta towel in Emerald , £36.90 ; NafNaf hooded teeshirt , from a selection available throughout Selfridges ' Children 's World promotion over the Easter holidays , 23 March to 13 April
26 Informix UK marketing manager , Tony Lacey-Thompson , said ‘ we ca n't afford to ignore Microsoft 's 90% stronghold over the personal computer market .
27 THE Northern region finished fifth out of ten behind winners Scotland in the BSAD national junior swimming championships at Darlington 's Dolphin Centre over the weekend .
28 That lack of sensitivity has not made her especially popular in the locker room , but she has nevertheless gained enough respect to be selected to the board of the Women 's Tennis Association over many years , and she currently serves as its President .
29 Lineen will captain the Saltires when they aim to repeat last year 's record victory over Ulster at Ravenhill , Belfast , tonight ( 7:30 ) .
30 Our idea — which would involve wheeling a building large enough to cover London 's Tower Bridge over the damaged reactor — gained us a $ prize and , more importantly , an automatic place on the short list for bidding for the 3 million ECU feasibility contract .
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