Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [noun sg] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1776 The Meeting stent themselves with the Expence of Building the Timber Bridge over the water of Duich performed by Hugh McKay £6 ; 0:0 . |
| 2 | Matrices similar to those found for may be found for the compliances , using the Reuss summation over all orientations . |
| 3 | By scattering the fertiliser pellets over his vineyard the vigneron is helping to restore the vine 's balance of resources . |
| 4 | It blames the government pricing formula , set during privatisation in 1989 , for ‘ favouring the water industry over consumers who are forced to pay ever increasing prices ’ . |
| 5 | At the end of some noisy haggling he had ended up paying the driver way over the odds . |
| 6 | Failure to extend the agreement would have meant selling the buffer stock over a 4@1/2-year period from October , with potentially damaging consequences for prices , which were already at their lowest point for many years after five seasons of glut . |
| 7 | Spreading the annuity purchase over a period of years will average out rates over that period , but whether this will result in a bigger pension at the end of the day is highly speculative . |
| 8 | ONE OF the beauties of doing the football pools over the years has been their simplicity , writes Mike Aitken . |
| 9 | HEALTH MINISTERS met secretly at Chevening last week to agree a strategy for winning the propaganda battle over the Government 's NHS changes . |
| 10 | An IBM source said it would be interesting to see how Hewlett-Packard Co , currently winning the performance race over Rios with its PA 7100 chip , will respond to the announcement — what do they say about Hubris and Nemesis … |
| 11 | I remember putting the door mat over my head , as the engine mechanism of the bomb stopped right over our house . |
| 12 | the service requested is intended to confer on the tribunal making the request jurisdiction over a person who by the law of the State of execution can not be subjected to such jurisdiction . |
| 13 | We get the flux per unit length by integrating the flux density over the space between the wires ( assumed to be infinitely thin ) , as follows : |
| 14 | Also there was a bit of annoyance in Bert Millichip 's voice mentioning the press speculation over likely successors . |
| 15 | ‘ Sergeant , not sir , ’ Mauer said tugging the peak cap over his thinning blond hair . |
| 16 | This accommodating and recommended summit is Bruach na Frithe , reached from Sligachan by a path leaving the pedestrian track over the Bealach a' Mhaim ; it is safe , without hazards , and calls for no more effort than the ascent of Scafell Pike in the English Lake District . |
| 17 | The special qualities of ‘ Scotch ’ depend on drying the barley malt over burning peat , the quality of Scottish water , and the skill of the blenders . |
| 18 | When she 'd retrieved the ends of the rope and tied it all together , she sat with her back against the load , adjusting the carrying rope over her forehead . |
| 19 | This is left oversized , the tenons cut on the ends of the back uprights and the positions for the mortises marked off by laying the rail piece over the tenons . |
| 20 | Start by laying the weaving yarn over a small amount of needles , then gradually increase the amount of weaving to the centre front before decreasing the length of the rows to match the first half . |
| 21 | Following the government retreat over the terms of the Directive in 1988 it was estimated that Anglian would have to spend £60-£70 million over the following 10 years to clean up the water supplies of Bedford and Norwich , along with a total 25 supplies that had been subject to derogations . |