Example sentences of "over [conj] of [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I wept over that of course , for a world where some people might doubt her — my — cleanliness . |
| 2 | Well then , also at dusk , of course , the other thing that made us more tired than ever , the Air Raid siren used to go off at night , so then the oil rooms are checked , and you can hear it going over , and you know how the German planes used to go , but you could hear it going over and of course in that black-out then , they used to in the moon light bright along the river Severn , we used to hear them going over and we used to think ’ Are they going to Bristol tonight , or Birmingham or Buckingham ; whether you 'd want to know ’ . |
| 3 | I mean we could never have paid for all those tyres and when I retired the erm , they actually had a tyre fitter supplied and paid for by they were the , they took over the whole of the tyre maintenance , they had a tyre fitter down there and he used to go up to depot , change any tyres over there that were necessary , he inspected them each day and changed them over but of course he was notifying erm at the same time . |
| 4 | Outlook has been held over because of lack of space . |
| 5 | He was not passed over because of Attlee 's undisguised preference for products of Haileybury , but because the Foreign Office insisted on a more senior judge . |