Example sentences of "he [verb] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commissioner of the Garda Siochana for little more than two years in the 1970s , he presided over a force struggling to cope with a surge in urban crime and the spillover violence of the IRA campaign in Northern Ireland . |
| 2 | This success lies behind his translation to Canterbury in the following year ; thereafter , until his death in 1381 , he presided over a period of taxation the scale of which exceeded even that of the early years of the reign . |
| 3 | In the 1630s , in particular , he presided over a fractious chapter , divided by personal and some ideological conflict . |
| 4 | On 1 April 1959 he presided over a lavish ceremony the purpose of which was the inauguration of an extraordinary church , built , in Franco 's own words , " in memory of my victory over communism , which was trying to dominate Spain " . |
| 5 | He presided over a pre-trial review when it was decided not to go ahead with a case against a babysitter accused of assaulting seven children . |
| 6 | On Channel 2 , the unctuous host of the Gerry Springer chat show had apparently taken a serious oil overdose as he presided over a freak show of truly terrible cases of giantism and dwarfism by telling his goggle-eyed studio viewers they were each of them there ‘ so that next time we may understand and empathise when we meet a woman 7ft 10ins tall . ’ |
| 7 | And he paid over a thousand pounds for it . |
| 8 | and he had over a thousand , one hundred a month |