Example sentences of "[vb past] over [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wakefield soon took the lead for the first time when Conway 's towering kick bounced over the line for Mason to touch down near the posts . |
| 2 | In 1955 , Floirat bought the ailing radio station Europe 1 and presided over the company for 30 years , transforming it into one of the country 's most popular stations . |
| 3 | A call came over the radio for us to go to a RTA . |
| 4 | Norris powered home a header after 63 minutes to put Dulwich out of reach before Leaburn 's half-hit shot bobbled over the line for number five . |
| 5 | He pored over the message for an age . |
| 6 | Most notable among them were a Louis XVI ormolu-and-Wedgwood porcelain mounted clock thermometer and its companion barometer-thermometer attributed to Adam Weisweiler ( est. $150–200,000 ) which sold to a telephone bidder for $250,000 ( £138,900 ) and an amusing pair of painted jeux de loto ( essentially eighteenth-century bingo cards in their holders ) , which sold over the telephone for $60,000 ( £33,300 ) ( est. $20–30,000 ) . |
| 7 | NHS At the Conservative Party Conference in 1986 , Norman Fowler , then Secretary of State for Health , was loudly cheered on producing a long computer printout of 380 new ‘ large hospital schemes ’ costing £3bn , which he unrolled over the rostrum for the benefit of photographers from newspapers which had criticised the Tories ' record on the NHS . |
| 8 | She crossed the room unsteadily , reached over the desk for a bottle of pills . |
| 9 | Mould disappeared over the wall for the fifth time . |
| 10 | I started work with a fishmonger or a hawker rather r round the streets and when a woman cried over the window for fish I ran up the stairs and delivered it . |
| 11 | She walked up the stairs , one , two , three — a tense moment on three as the wooden foot hovered over the step for a long moment before descending . |
| 12 | Her eyes ran over the company for a moment , and then she turned away to go inside again . |
| 13 | The army absorbed most of the Scottish gentry who hoped to make their living from the sword , but there were also many Scots in the Royal Navy and Royal Marines , and those who entered the senior service appear to have been attracted by the substantial advantages which the navy had over the army for a gentleman of limited means . |
| 14 | The visitors were unlucky not to score when Mark Butler headed off the line from a corner in the nineteenth minute , and Ken Mulligan shot over the bar for the visitors , being put away by Hurst . |
| 15 | Woolley flattened out , turned right and prowled over the surface for about a quarter of a mile . |