Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] over [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | He was also ready , during the proceedings over Lady Chatterley 's Lover , to go into the witness box and publicly recant his previous attacks upon Lawrence . |
2 | Adam got to his feet and , throwing one of the quilts over Rufus , went into the house . |
3 | He has a bit more fun with the wrangles over Shaw 's house at Ayot St Lawrence ( it was left to the National Trust ) , while Mrs Shaw 's will , which was also contested in the courts in the Fifties , provides a lively sideshow . |
4 | Perhaps one day the full story of Harry 's epic journey from the skies over Berlin to St Eval 's runway will be told . |
5 | Two Man of the Match performances in the victories over Wales and England were just a foretaste of what followed . |
6 | There were not many heroes in the wars over Andres Serrano 's ‘ Piss Christ ’ photograph , Robert Mapplethorpe 's homoerotic images , Karen Finlay 's chocolate and bean-sprout performance pieces . |
7 | But now , as British airmen are back on active service in the skies over Iraq , the secrets of the SAS are coming out . |
8 | After a week of fighting , the war that had begun with a thunderous high-tech blitzkrieg in the skies over Baghdad had not yet delivered visible proof of victory . |
9 | The last and greatest battle of the Ruhr was fought in the skies over Germany in the last three months of 1944 , and on some nights there were still 5% losses of aircraft , not to mention men . |
10 | Last year we were reminded of those epic days when Fighter Command denied the Luftwaffe air superiority in the skies over Britain . |
11 | Propellers over Warwick by M J Evans is a small , but nevertheless interesting , booklet on the four generations of aircraft seen in the skies over Warwickshire . |
12 | After more than 20 years in the skies over Oxfordshire , the F1-11 fighter bomber is leaving . |
13 | In stark contrast to the problems over EDC , both treaties were ratified by the end of the year . |
14 | Three days later , on 23rd. , the Stukas returned to the skies over Malta , and on this occasion the defences were able to engage them without undue fighter interference , although Plt.Off . |
15 | The entire loft is a matted tangle of sticks and twigs brought in by the jackdaws over God knows how many centuries ; in parts it is many metres deep . |