Example sentences of "at the [noun sg] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over his shoulder she glanced at the clock over the door — the hands seemed to be moving very fast and she was reluctant to say it was time she was going . |
| 2 | He glanced at the clock over the door . |
| 3 | Peter Hickton had had trouble with the resident stage crew at the Variety over the Saturday night . |
| 4 | I was flicking the coal dust from my trousers and trying to look unconcerned when I saw Wesley Binks doubled up with mirth , pointing triumphantly at me and at the hole over the cellar . |
| 5 | Twoflower looked worriedly at the wizard over the top of his strange seeing-lenses . |
| 6 | He was looking up at the sign over the door . |
| 7 | The boat has received regular visits from its lawyer owner , as well as from other collectors of the cars who have called at the yard over the years . |
| 8 | The reader assists at the triumph over the abyss and experiences , in a very important way , his/her own coming-through or rite of passage . |
| 9 | Many such instances were carried out at the Chapel over the next few years . |
| 10 | Many visitors to Quainton Road expressed surprise at the amount of change that has taken place at the Centre over the last few years . |
| 11 | Instead , I lay the garment out flat on the table and place one heavy book over the top of the neck edge and one at the bottom over the rib to stretch it a little . |
| 12 | A Clwyd health authority spokesman said about 30 GP practices were being asked to contact people who had received surgery at the hospital over the past ten months . |
| 13 | So far we 've looked at the news over the past ten years . |
| 14 | And that is a terrible terrible thing that we 've all got to face , but I think we have to realize that we have the potential , we have the ability of saving the lives of fifty million children , and the world 's leaders at the conference , at the summit over the weekend , actually turned their minds for an instant , away from all those economic and political problems and focused on this , and I think that that was tremendously important . |
| 15 | Four barricades , three of them protected by cannon , were built at the ends of the main streets , and 200 or 300 men posted at the bridge over the River Ribble , but no defences were built there . |
| 16 | After a mile , at the bridge over the River Isle , cross the stile next to the gate on the left and follow the track by the river to the old Midelney Locks . |
| 17 | In 1 184 Richard returned to this area , founding a new town and castle at the bridge over the River Creuse at St Rémi de la Haye , about twelve miles on the other side of Châtellerault . |
| 18 | She stopped at the bridge over the estuary and watched the sea birds swoop over mud , chocolate-brown with slabs of black sheen like coal . |
| 19 | There is some confusion at the moment over the common name , as there are two varieties that possess the rich orange seam along the dorsal fin and tail . |
| 20 | Enterprise Computer Holdings Plc fears it has been misunderstood : the company is keen to stress that Finance Director Les Kemp has the unhappy confusion over last year 's accounting figures under control ( CI No 2,162 ) but wants to know how accountants KPMG Peat Marwick managed not to sign the audit report for subsidiary Enterprise Computer Services ; apparently there was confusion at the time over the verification of certain bank loans ; all should be clear in the next report and the company says it expects to show a return to profit . |
| 21 | Look at the fuss over The Life of Brian . |
| 22 | A dead badger was found at the site over the wekend . |