Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] with [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | She loves gossiping with friends over lunch , he would rather be alone with his thoughts . |
| 2 | The Sunderland manager has lived with speculation over his job since signing a one-year contract at the end of last season . |
| 3 | While ditches become filled with silt over time , mounds are gradually flattened by weathering , and if a mound is adjacent to a ditch , this will affect the pattern of silting in the ditch . |
| 4 | The vote was boycotted by a rival faction led by Kenneth Matiba and Martin Shikuku , who had differed with Odinga over methods of selecting FORD 's presidential candidate [ see p. 39040 ] . |
| 5 | An expatriate Iranian satirist , Hadi Khorsandi , later claimed in fun to have had the ear of Rafsanjani , who told him that his discussions with McFarlane ‘ were meant only for him to practise the English language … all the contacts he had had with Americans over the past year had been made for the purpose of learning irregular verbs . ’ |
| 6 | A similar problem arose when the USA had to deal with Iran over the seizure of its Embassy staff in 1979–81 . |
| 7 | Considering how closely the band had worked with Charman over the past three years , their method of dismissing him seems to have been unduly formal in the circumstances . |
| 8 | He had leapt with ease over the fearsome Becher 's Brook on the second circuit , but he was tiring and had no jockey to keep him going . |
| 9 | The table shows the steady progress we have made with tokamaks over the past quarter of a century . |
| 10 | Districts are , however , required to consult with counties over ‘ matters of concern ’ . |
| 11 | Negotiations have opened with Southampton over the permanent transfer of Jon Gittens to Ayresome Park . |
| 12 | Local shell fishermen have clashed with conservationists over the latter 's appeal for an end to shellfish potting in the waters around Skomer Island 's Marine Nature Reserve , south-west Wales . |
| 13 | Relations remained strained with Germany over the continuing repercussions of the Rabta chemical factory controversy , but improved with France after the return in March of three Libyan Mirage fighter planes , held in France since 1986 , and the release of three French and Belgian hostages in Beirut by the Libyan-sponsored Fatah Revolutionary Council ( RFC ) . |