Example sentences of "over a [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ellen had retired from the Christabel Focus over a question of principle . |
| 2 | The gelding had failed to win over a variety of distances from five furlongs to two miles , but galloped clear in yesterday 's mile and a quarter all-weather race under veteran jockey Chris Dwyer . |
| 3 | His tutorials were always stimulating and ranged over a variety of subjects . |
| 4 | Eventually Balvinder handed over a pocketful of change and the healer gave him a small pot of white powder . |
| 5 | Outside , the sea was still and calm , the rising sun brightly peering over a layer of cloud , giving the sky an orange hue . |
| 6 | ‘ Why ? ’ said Albert , knocking over a toothglass of Kirsch with his other boot as he tried to scrape the gelantine off the left heel with his right toe . |
| 7 | ‘ If you take a map of disadvantage and press it over a map of crime , there is too close a coincidence , ’ he said in his annual report last month . |
| 8 | ‘ Corsages were kept in a little drop of water , ’ Harry explained , ‘ but you ca n't plunge a bouquet in a drop of water , so I put them over a bowl of water supported by two canes . |
| 9 | In the rear of their hut his wife was bending over a bowl of water , naked to the waist , washing herself , and she snatched up a towel to cover her bare breasts when she heard Loc hiss a sudden warning . |
| 10 | It began in Rebekah 's womb , continued over a bowl of lentil soup , and finished its first round beside the bed of the dying Isaac . |
| 11 | At other times in the past , temperatures appear to have fluctuated by as much as 10 degrees centigrade over a couple of decades . |
| 12 | A lady from the nearby pub bought over a couple of pints — there was quite a reception aftewards . |
| 13 | I stumbled over a couple of boxes on the floor . |
| 14 | Sometimes the wood is pre-oiled , but if you buy one which has n't been , rub it over a couple of times with a rag soaked in linseed oil and leave it aside to dry . |
| 15 | Sometimes the wood is pre-oiled , but if you buy one which has n't been , rub it over a couple of times with a rag soaked in linseed oil and leave it aside to dry . |
| 16 | If some sheikh wants a son and he needs a push from technology , he sends over a couple of wives and a bottle of frogspawn . |
| 17 | Despite Thursday 's show of petulance at Old Trafford when he kicked over a couple of stumps and a comparative lack of first-class wickets this season , Foster has moved steadily up the fast bowling pecking order . |
| 18 | He could have taken the isolation better if it was n't for the batteries in his radio dying on him without warning ; usually they faded over a couple of nights but this time it was just zonk , no signal . |
| 19 | ‘ There were problems in the past with the way the fund was run , but when I took over a couple of years ago we took a very long look at our accounting system and put matters right . |
| 20 | We took about £150m out of them over a couple of years . ’ |
| 21 | I mean to move on silently escaping , but I crash straight into a trolley , pushed by a bloke looking like one of the heavyweights in a James Bond film , so I leap away at speed as he snarls after me and knock over a pile of bean tins . |
| 22 | Back at the cottage she found Rodney and Veronica in the kitchen picking over a pile of fungi . |
| 23 | He heard again the noise of doors opening , voices , saw a light streaming across the street , and he was scrambling frantically over the bomb-site , tripping over a pile of rubble , tearing his coat on a fence , and running down the shockingly open street , running for his life . |
| 24 | Then it was back down to ground level to celebrate over a bottle of champagne with Zoe 's mum , Pat , and husband Joe . |
| 25 | Said Leonard to us over a bottle of Sabbath wine , ‘ I did not have a scholar 's bent ; at that time I spent many evenings with Layton and we would ‘ crack ’ poetry together — discover the poet 's meaning . |
| 26 | The sort of gesture that might , reasonably , allow a chap to knock over a bottle of wine and make sure at least half of it got all over Donald 's plate . |
| 27 | Jack put the book to one side and the four of them sat chatting over a bottle of wine . |
| 28 | He had now knocked over a bottle of gentian violet . |
| 29 | I handed over a plethora of retirement gifts from her colleagues and wished her a long and happy retirement . |
| 30 | The words roared over a row of Henley Heselteenies and reverberated in the gods . |