Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One-time pal BUILDER Jim Garrad , who never wants to speak to his former friend Mellor again after their dispute over a bill |
| 2 | And she asked for their support over a difficult period . |
| 3 | In the list given below , are shown items and pay , selected for their interest over a good number of years . |
| 4 | Despite my closeness over a long period to Harold Wilson , I was certainly not close to his publicised cronies . |
| 5 | ‘ What would have been Britain 's level of development had millions of them been put to work as slaves outside of their homeland over a period of four centuries ? ’ asks Guyanese professor of history Walter Rodney . |
| 6 | Borrowers are able to use the facility up to 140 per cent of their quota over a four-year period and with much more relaxed repayment conditions than the normal facilities . |
| 7 | They cooked strips of its meat over a fierce wood fire , but the old man 's appetite was small . |
| 8 | FERRANTI International , the troubled defence electronics combine , could face a legal challenge from the trustees of the estate of its founder over a report into frauds totalling £215million . |
| 9 | At their graves their families would unite with their beloved over a memorial meal and a drink , easing their grief in recreating the family intimacy , only transiently ruptured . |
| 10 | ‘ Since we 're obviously about to enter a discussion on ethics , may I suggest it might be more comfortable to do so in my apartment over a cup of coffee and a glass of aquavit ? ’ |
| 11 | Rasmussen and Milner ( 1975 ) summarise data collected in their clinic over a number of years ' use of the Amytal test ( see Wada and Rasmussen , 1960 ; Branch , Milner and Rasmussen , 1964 ) . |
| 12 | Er and erm it 's difficult for people to maintain er not only as I say , but in their lifestyle over a particular period of time , so you could be more likely to get at the truth by this method , than by sending out questionnaires . |
| 13 | Though Marje believed that Phillip was living a bachelor life at a London hotel between trysts with her , he spent some of the time , at least , with Meli in her apartment over a hairdresser 's shop and a prostitute 's flat in London 's Kensington . |
| 14 | From his letters and his wife 's memoirs we picture him in cheap cafés hunched up in his greatcoat over a cup of coffee , with Russian and European newspapers spread about him . |
| 15 | So we look to organisations who will lend the money to us , on condition that we undertake to repay the loan from our income over a specified period of time . |
| 16 | So we look to organisations who will lend the money to us , on condition that we undertake to repay the loan from our income over a specified period of time . |
| 17 | One of the tasks of a sponsor of such an event is to maximise on its appeal over a long period of time . |
| 18 | Shadow ministers who visited Washington thus found themselves at the centre of considerable attention , and were probed in detail on their thinking over a range of issues . |
| 19 | The man , in his 20s , clung to an overhanging tree when his damaged craft was in danger of carrying him to his death over a raging weir . |
| 20 | Virginia 's doctor , a self-important little man , had a patient once who lost her memory after the shock of seeing her husband fall to his death over a cliff . |
| 21 | That this can give rise to erroneous inferences with potentially disastrous consequences is shown when Lok nearly falls to his death over a cliff because he smells smoke . |
| 22 | When the Minister next meets them , will he tell them why he stood on his head over a decommissioning — |
| 23 | Why he stood on his head over a decommissioning scheme which is too little , too late ? |
| 24 | The Golden Tulip Barbizon Centre invites all Amsterdam Travel Service guests staying at their hotel over a weekend , to a free buffet dinner in their famous Cafe Barbizon Restaurant ( wines and other drinks are extra ) . |
| 25 | Sometimes , as he sat at his desk over a dull report , his hand strayed to the telephone and he called her . |
| 26 | Moreover , a secretary attached to a legation or an embassy and not to an individual minister or ambassador , and remaining at his post over a fairly long period , could become a valuable source of information about local conditions : this might be of great help to a new head of mission coming to a strange country of which he knew little . |
| 27 | It is grossly unfair that she should have been sentenced to life having been provoked by her partner over a period into killing him . |