Example sentences of "over his [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wife Eleanor snapped in the summer of 1991 over his affair with widow Georgina Gillan but all bitterness is now forgotten and they are together again . |
| 2 | But he was unrepentant over his affair with actress Antonia de Sancha and his string of freebie holidays . |
| 3 | As lieutenant-governor , he is remembered for fleeing down the statehouse fire escape to avoid senators ' anger over his choice of committee assignments . |
| 4 | Earlier this year , Dharam , his son and heir , committed suicide after incurring family displeasure over his choice of bride . |
| 5 | Now that European Community funds are available to assist in that process , what success did our right hon. Friend the Secretary of State have in his dealings with Commissioner Millan over his request for support for the gas and electricity interconnectors from the mainland to Northern Ireland , which would reduce energy costs in the Province ? |
| 6 | Two weeks ago , Sharon Edwards began teasing Darren Johnson over his lack of romance . |
| 7 | " that the General was rather worried and sore over his lack of information . |
| 8 | A contemporary of Freud , he differed from the master over his emphasis on sexuality as the most important motivation on personality . |
| 9 | JOHN Smith today faced fresh criticism over Labour 's image as he sought to side-step confrontation with trade union barons over his plans for party democracy . |
| 10 | In Covent Garden , Luttrell tells us , " the image of the French king was made and drawn in a chariot , and over his head in capital letters was wrott , Lewis the greatest tyrant of fourteen " , which they eventually committed to the flames . |
| 11 | Having failed to reach a cross about five yards over his head in training yesterday the irrepressible Rangers marksman clambered on the shoulders of towering team-mate Dave McPherson and chirped : ‘ I 'll get the next one ! ’ |
| 12 | And , even then , he could not have foreseen how ferocious this would be , particularly over his style of Premiership , a matter over which he was already vulnerable . |
| 13 | But when he looked back over his shoulder for help , Garvey too had descended his ladder and was following them into the nave . |
| 14 | Looking nervously over his shoulder in case the priest should hear , he scratched his head and rolled his eyes , all the time muttering that terrible word . |
| 15 | as if to prove that the National Hunt supermen that brought off this latest feat are in fact human , Pipe admitted that he got it badly wrong over his assessment of In-Keeping . |
| 16 | He had put a sleeveless tunic over his shirt of mail , and the Brecbennoch clung to it , undisturbed by the pace of his horse . |
| 17 | Ceauşescu liked to win at chess : the result of the game asserted his supremacy over his opponent in politics as much as the skills of the game itself — few risked beating the Comrade . |
| 18 | Sara felt many things , including affection , balked control , trouble over his loss of weight , and enmity toward one of the weak . |
| 19 | Confronting the referee over his mug of vodka , I insisted that he call the game off as it was obvious the five Chamden lads were at a complete disadvantage against our full team . |
| 20 | She ran her palms and fingertips hard over his skull with joy . |
| 21 | But while he has anguished over his role in life , to the point where it would surprise no one if he just threw in the towel tomorrow and went off in search of obscurity , Steffi appears to have suffered no such agonies and self-doubt . |
| 22 | On March 26 the US State Department confirmed that it had in July 1991 denied a visa to Narong because of suspicions over his role in heroin trading . |
| 23 | CONCERN is growing for a fifteen-year-old boy who went missing from home following a family dispute over his suspension from school . |
| 24 | Alexander 's mind shifted from conflict over his intentions to certainty that The Yellow Chair was what he was writing . |
| 25 | We wasted days and days dancing in the Pink Pussy Club , yawning at Fat Mattress at the Croydon Greyhound , ogling strippers on Sunday mornings in a pub , sleeping through Godard and Antonioni films , and enjoying the fighting at Millwall Football Ground , where I forced Changez to wear a bobble-hat over his face in case the lads saw he was a Paki and imagined I was one too . |
| 26 | Yet they are of no consolation to Richard 's victims , and as we look back over his career of slaughter we see that for Shakespeare hypocrisy is a particularly sinister vice , often associated with ruthless egoism . |