Example sentences of "over [art] [noun sg] in [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 CONFIDENCE in Derby favourite Tenby continued to wane over the weekend in response to his poor workout .
2 Well well I do , I heard it over the weekend in fact , that I can er , have er , another BUPA medical to start with .
3 Ruth pulled the coverlet straight over the bed in No. 4 .
4 The ECJ has rather wavered over the issue in relation to the Transfers Directive .
5 The rivers ' safety record is reckoned to be quite good and the authority wants tyo ensure that this wweeekend people don'ty do over the top in case they wind up going under .
6 Behind him Grey Sombrero took a crashing fall at the Chair and broke his shoulder , but all eyes were on Crisp as he skipped over the water in front of the exhilarated spectators in the stands and swung out towards the second circuit .
7 Before the rabbit is taken out of the net , another net should be set over the hole in case other rabbits bolt .
8 My memories of that event are hazy but I felt that I should have somehow or other done something , crawled about the burning ground with my leg hanging off singing ‘ There 'll always be an England ’ and waving a tattered Union Jack over the hedge in defiance .
9 Shortly after the official opening ceremony a collection of no less than 11 Norseman floatplanes that had gathered at Red Lake , started-up , taxied around Howey Bay , took-off ( a tremendous effect as the sound of 11 Pratt and Whitney R–134s revving at full power reverberated around the bay ) and performed a series of fly-bys and overshoots over the bay in salute of CF–DRD and the weekend events .
10 Armed only with a sketchbook , Olwen travels all over the country in search of botanical gardens and interesting conservatories .
11 Mrs Boatman will certainly not be expecting her potential charges at Northumberland to be chasing all over the country in search of titles .
12 At a time when Pound was principally a student of Provençal poetry , he appears to have been as good as his word , and to have travelled on foot over the terrain in question .
13 Portugal has not claimed that the treaty is void , but that its negotiation and conclusion are with a State that has no legal authority over the territory in question .
14 The increase in police powers and the subsequent curtailment in civil liberties , rest on the Conservative Party 's alarm over the increase in crime .
15 Two , or three , of them are in , or moving into , the far from populous row of flats , just over the river in South London , which is inhabited by Patrick and Jenny , and by a stunning , boring wife who affords Patrick one of the novelist 's turmoils in a vulgarly-appointed borrowed flat some miles to the north .
16 An Air Canada plane came low over the river in line for Glasgow airport .
17 in the village and one of you know that 's than than the county council which is over the river in house .
18 Those seen in the spring will have hibernated over the winter in garden sheds or hollow trees .
19 The explosions in March and April of 1969 at an electricity sub station in Castlereagh and at the Silent Valley reservoir in the Mournes were followed by an explosion at an electricity sub-station over the border in County Donegal .
20 The Scottish Natural Heritage figure is up over the grant in aid for 1991-92 for the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland and the Scottish Countryside Commission by 21 per cent .
21 ‘ Probably you as well , Sir , ’ I replied , ‘ Your own trench is just over the wall in Brigade H.Q ’ He glared up at me and before he could say anything I beat a hasty retreat .
22 But you see , the Reverend has a distant relative whom he means to put in my place and so I was granted sick leave over the holiday in order that his dear Jonathan could come and assist him with the Christmas services .
23 I shall have another word to say about him , you 're not getting off as lightly as that Alan , er , but erm , I , I think that erm , what I should now do , is to invite him , as our Chairman over the year in question , to er , move the adoption of the Annual Report .
24 His eyes played over the building in front of them — a jumble of towers , crenellations and massive walls with a sagging Rag of St George above the gatehouse picked out in the beam of a spotlight .
25 That evening , after supper , I was too tired to write up notes , so I lay thinking over the day in order to make it easier to write them up in the morning .
26 She crossed over the road in search of Joy in the Yamacraw — fifty acres of fruit trees conjured from blowaway soil .
27 ‘ There was no Albert Bridge then , ’ recalled Ben Bellaser , ‘ to span the river and ride over the ancient town with its oppressive grandeur , and the moon was rising and lighting up the shore and houses as they rose one over the other in terrace fashion against the dark blue starry sky ’ .
28 I have made only a couple of minor claims over the period in question .
29 It shows the remarkable rise in total issues over the period in question and also shows the rising share of eurosterling issues in total issues .
30 Vast amounts of capital and capacity were installed all over the world in expectation of continuing rising demand and no technological change .
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