Example sentences of "with the [noun sg] over [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They bound along , eager and unquestioning across the icy wastes with the driver with the whip over them saying ‘ mush , mush ’ . |
| 2 | It will be aware also that we have a long , deep and bitter disagreement with the Government over their whole political and security policy in Northern Ireland . |
| 3 | The revolver which was holstered with the strap over it . |
| 4 | If you do feel revolted when you watch the patient eat , you should not feel guilty about it , but neither should you let yourself become irritable with the patient over it . |
| 5 | If you ever get the chance to go to Nazareth you will be shown a well with the sign over it , ‘ St Mary 's Well ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ You have n't even begun to try to understand … you have n't a notion what it was like , all the cars and the blood and the glass and the boy with the blanket over him , and a girl breaking her ribs , and all the hanging around and waiting … it was … it was … just awful . ’ |
| 7 | Ted stood there waiting with the shirt over his arm , waiting to hear the inevitable sequence completed before he went on ; slam the van door , up the outside stairs to the flat over the workshop , another door to slam , and then LOUD MUSIC . |
| 8 | This is largely a matter of forming the habit of noting the wind from smoke or some other indication and of orientating yourself relative to the sun or an obvious feature such as a coast line , i.e. remember something along the lines of ‘ Into wind is into sun ’ , or say to yourself , ‘ I must land with the sun over my left shoulder ’ , etc . |
| 9 | Another hurrying figure bumped into him , narrowly missing him with the blade over its shoulder . |
| 10 | ‘ We are in consultation with the employer over its implications for our members . ’ |
| 11 | Why , Mummy , you know what you always say when I put on my red mack with the hood over my head ! |
| 12 | The only place for his desk would have been opposite mine , with the light over his left shoulder . |
| 13 | We were neither of us getting any younger , but he was a good few years older than I and I was the one with the roof over my head . |
| 14 | THE fighting on the ground may be nothing compared with the fighting over who pays the bill . |
| 15 | Thus , he argued , when Henry VIII quarrelled with the pope over his marriage , he was able to use a pre-existing anti-clericalism as a stick with which to beat the church , and when he subsequently embarked on the official Reformation , the greater part of the political nation readily gave him their support . |
| 16 | Henry VIII , in the 1530s , had begun to encourage Renaissance work by importing Italian craftsmen , but his break with the Pope over his religious and marital problems postponed the arrival of the Renaissance in England for nearly a century . |
| 17 | Then he fumbled with the tape over my mouth . |