Example sentences of "[vb pp] over a [noun sg] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | No memorial was raised over a pauper 's grave . |
| 2 | On Minoan pottery , the double-axe is sometimes painted over a bull 's head . |
| 3 | One policeman from an area outside Easton once stated that he had ‘ sort of fixed it ’ for a lorry driver who had run over a lady 's leg because ‘ the lady was n't very nice but the lorry driver was dead on ’ ( FN 22/2/87 , p. 1 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Mervyn had suggested we should make the Dalek transport machines out of cardboard tubes — sprayed silver and fitted over a person 's legs . |
| 5 | In his left hand he held a pocket Philips dictaphone into which he would occasionally confide ; in his right , a pencil poised over a reporter 's pad . |