Example sentences of "[conj] over his " in BNC.
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| 1 | New little clavichord in his study , seventeenth century , and over his desk his charts and diagrams . |
| 2 | ( Williams however in such a poem beautifully weaves the syntax of the sentence into and over his verse-lines — which is not a resource that most imagists were aware of . ) |
| 3 | Lachlan heard rehearsed over and over his rages and violence . |
| 4 | From that time on he improved in leaps and bounds and eventually , after about seven months , I started gingerly walking him around the small paddock next to his box with a bridle and a lunge rein threaded through his bit and over his head . |
| 5 | He certainly swooned : the sheer volume of the blood , bright and red and over his thighs and smearing his belly , and sticky now on his fingers . |
| 6 | His head had dropped forward and over his chest a great mat of blood had spread like a bib . |
| 7 | and over his preference for Greece over Turkey . |
| 8 | There was FDP resentment at Adenauer 's domination of government , and over his consideration of an electoral reform which would make it even more difficult for small parties to be elected to the Bundestag . |
| 9 | He could already see over the rue Victorie at the front and over his father 's garden at the back . |
| 10 | Then from out there where Slorne 's gaze had led him , from out of the dark moonlit sky , there came a distant calling of a name , a place , a power , and it was like a great presence he could only feel and not see , and it cast itself over him , and over his cage , and over the whole Zoo , and over more than that . |
| 11 | It ran right up and over his cheekbones , leading one to suspect that it was important for him to shave his eye sockets and forehead daily , if he wanted to avoid becoming altogether bestial . |
| 12 | His forearms were lying on the desk and his skinny torso was framed by a proscenium arch of ring binders , set on shelves that marched up and over his head . |
| 13 | His hair curled in a thick golden tangle , his skin stretched taut and golden-bronze over his rolling muscles and over his high cheekboned , demonically handsome face . |
| 14 | He was some sort of a manservant , because above his dark trousers and over his white shirt he had the sort of striped waistcoat she had imagined such people would wear — normally only in films , though , especially as this particular waistcoat was striped in black and subdued gold . |
| 15 | There were heavy Moorish stirrups and over his trousers he had chaps of dark , soft leather , the glitter of silver down the sides . |
| 16 | It happened that the dog was silenced just as her last remark emerged , and over his body , flattened now to the sheet where he lay panting , the old woman sitting up in the bed flashed her a look . |
| 17 | As Governor he had encountered the opposition of the Democrat majority in the state legislature over tax and budgetary reforms and over his decision to veto a state abortion law in 1990 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Doyle looked at Tug almost sadly and spoke not to him , but over his head , to the Woman . |
| 20 | The laughable forerunner , he hangs his head and averts his face , while over his head runs the sky like a great river of peace . |
| 21 | At the turn of the eleventh and twelfth centuries the Norman Anonymous ( formerly known as the Anonymous of York ) wrote that ‘ the king reigns with Christ ’ , reflecting the common doctrine of the tenth and early eleventh centuries that the king was Christ 's vicar , that he was rex et sacerdos , that although he could not administer the sacraments , he ruled over the Church as well as over his temporal kingdom , that all authority was vested in him . |