Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [noun] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He obtained the second by pretending to trip over an unseen obstacle , which inadvertently threw him against the foreman , knocking him to the ground and depositing his daily schedule papers all over the floor . |
| 2 | ‘ I had considered going to California over the winter but I realised it was n't necessary . |
| 3 | His silence about Megara is not complete : Pericles is described as telling the Athenians that they will not be going to war over a trifle , if they refuse to rescind the Megarian decree as the Spartans demand . |
| 4 | Thirty volunteers will be travelling to Croatia over the next few weeks , taking three operating theatres from St. Mary 's Hospital , Portsmouth with them . |
| 5 | Britain is protesting to Germany over a planned mission to Baghdad by former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt . |
| 6 | While not giving details of the pricing , he said that the price-performance curve on the 80486 is the basis for pricing of the Pentium and that he expected the sort of dynamic that applied to the 80486 to apply to the Pentium as well — the 80486 being introduced at $900 to $1,000 and falling to $200 over a period of four years — at a rate of 30% per year . |
| 7 | I mean he was talking to Norman over the fence the other day and it sounds like gunfire |
| 8 | Get talking to people over a few drinks ; you 're better than me at that sort of thing . ’ |
| 9 | No , he 's alright , but I just hate talking to people over the phone . |
| 10 | I do n't know I was n't there , you was talking to Sandy over the fence . |
| 11 | Bowles and Gintis criticise the human capital theory as providing ‘ a good ideology for the status quo ’ and for the fact that ‘ the contribution of schooling to growth over the last half century may on balance have been negative . ’ |
| 12 | This is not about democracy , this is dictatorship , your trying to practice over a minority of people in this county . |