Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had borrowed one of Norris 's big paramilitary-style fawn shirts to wear as a jacket over my anti Poll Tax T-shirt . |
| 2 | He fussed for a while over a large teapot , pouring both of us outsize cups of tea . |
| 3 | Travel agents say they 've sold out of foreign holidays as thousands head for the sun over the Easter Bank holiday . |
| 4 | He mused for a time over alternative means of strengthening control , even on the possibility of a Minister replacing Citrine as chairman , but in the end he accepted the logic of the independent Morrisonian public corporation on which Labour 's nationalisation had ostensibly been based . |
| 5 | The PFL had voted against the government over pensions , despite being the leading pro-government party in Congress . |
| 6 | With total lack of inhibitions she rolled face down and , her mouth buried in her pillow , howled like an animal over his death . |
| 7 | It was left to the Glasgow Hillhead MP , George Galloway , at a Scotland United fringe meeting to dissent with the euphoria over the severed links to the Scottish National Party and to question the leadership strategy . |
| 8 | Erm , the other thing is that in the Nuffield erm it sometimes er er in the , in the book er list , and sometimes it 's in the photocopy books , so you have to check both and if it 's a book that 's been erm not come into the library over the last fourteen months you 've er , you also need to check the erm Von Ryan catalogue . |
| 9 | They wore their Sunday black and were climbing along the path over the hill , girding it as if with an emblematic mourning ribbon . |
| 10 | The arguments over the significance of organic relationships that we normally associate with the debate over Darwin 's Origin of Species were being fought out in the natural-history museums and anatomy schools just when Darwin himself was first beginning to develop his evolutionary theory in the late 1830s . |
| 11 | Griffin , however , writes with a glance over his shoulder . |
| 12 | Jobson approached with a coat over his arm , said he wanted to taslk to Mrs Smith , who told him to leave her alone . |
| 13 | But if you think this is bloody " — and he laughed his hacking tubercular laugh " our ancestors would n't think of going to sea in a new prahu which had n't first been rolled into the water over the living bodies of seven women in their first pregnancy ! |
| 14 | The general procedure , however , is to work with the dog over a period of time , ensuring a non-conflict situation so as to overcome its fears . |
| 15 | Weathermen predict no more snow will fall in the region over the coming days . |
| 16 | He said to protesters : ‘ I think the Timex situation is an indication of what has been happening in the country over the last 10 to 15 years . ’ |
| 17 | They were left bleeding and bruised in a row over a stolen bamboo shoot at a council estate in Camberwell , South London . |
| 18 | ‘ I may is well place before the dog over there the message of God as before those hungry millions who have no lustre in their eyes and whose only God is their bread . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ But if you 're interested in the old days , you ought to ask the man who lives in the house over there . |
| 20 | One has to specify what class of possible curved spaces should be included in the sum over histories . |
| 21 | Lastly , the effect of EC legislation has been considered in the battle over Sunday trading . |
| 22 | Break the chocolate into pieces and melt in a basin over a pan of hot water . |
| 23 | Break the chocolate into pieces and place in a basin over hot water . |
| 24 | Instead , break it into pieces and place in a basin over a pan of hot water — making sure the basin does n't touch the water . |
| 25 | She did not want to look at him , and crossed to stand before the mantel over the fireplace , gazing down into the empty grate . |
| 26 | Editor , — It is unfortunate that Gary P Bray adds to the confusion over deaths from paracetamol overdose by an apparent failure to recognise the difference between the cause of death and a coroner 's verdict as to its motivation . |
| 27 | It crashed into the peak and flipped over , although the tail section is recognisable , wreckage is scattered down the hill over a wide area . |
| 28 | I seem to remember an American thesis writer who crashed to the ground over this contorted problem , and I am sure that both Worsley and Sir John Summerson ( who contributes an elegant introduction to Mansbridge 's book ) would concur that mystery still surrounds the problem of Nash the draughtsman . |
| 29 | Much has been added to the house over the years and today , with its elegant 18th-century front rooms , there is little to remind one of its humble beginnings . |
| 30 | The rival powers of men 's tennis — the International Tennis Federation and the Association of Tennis Professionals — have come to an agreement over umpiring at the Australian Open . |