Example sentences of "over [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An attempt to contest Japan 's control over Korean foreign policy at the Hague peace Conference in 1907 fell on deaf ears ; whether Korea was , or was not , independent meant little to most of the nations of the West . |
| 2 | It was a scary journey , scrabbling over that slippery great red tongue and passing through a great hall of teeth and palate , each pillar taller than she was and as sharp as a knife . |
| 3 | The impersonal grey line of the North Sea kept us company to Helmsdale which nestles in the folds of heather hills close-cropped by winds that come relentlessly over that cruel water . |
| 4 | And all over that saucy trollop . ’ |
| 5 | She looked back over that stormy summer and was surprised to see each scene , even the ones that had seemed rather painful at the time , shining with an almost holy silver light . |
| 6 | For his insulting treatment of her over that exclusive French agency ? |
| 7 | Then she all at once became aware that Ven was looking at her seriously , all mockery , however gentle , gone , and suddenly she was feeling quite breathless , and discovering that she needed to say something , and quite urgently , to get her over that breathless feeling . |
| 8 | We quarrelled , I remember , over that Nilotic whore of his , Kuchuk Hanem . |
| 9 | I had ideal flying weather over that first week , though , and Dawn was soon flying distances of 250 feet from perch to fist in Derek 's field . |
| 10 | " Get 'em over that first month and you 're half way there . " |
| 11 | ‘ We will be studying this programme very closely to see if it crosses over that legal line . |
| 12 | He spent a whole year over that clever toy . |
| 13 | I ca n't get over that ruddy idiot in ! |
| 14 | And the mistress , much older by all appearances than her husband , who fussed too much over that great big daughter . |
| 15 | ‘ I had to go up to Clapton yesterday and haggle with Antinou for hours over that bloody Egyptian cotton . |
| 16 | e e e he told me you were playing ladies , I said oh I bet you enjoyed them all , bet you go over that bloody table ! |
| 17 | He urged the garrison to trust in God , and referred to David and Goliath , to Israel triumphing over that mighty host by the seashore , to Daniel in the den of lions . |
| 18 | She felt a sudden flash of doubt , remembering the things Jeff had told her , and thought again what had occurred to her over that fateful cup of coffee . |
| 19 | ‘ The thoughts and feelings of that poor mother , giving over that tiny tot to a complete stranger , still haunt me today . ’ |
| 20 | Additionally , in the case of a complete failure to perform to contract at all , the buyer will usually have the right to go elsewhere to a third party for the same goods and to charge the seller for any increase in the price paid to the third party over that payable to the seller . |
| 21 | It was a picture of Dick Hansen over that frozen lake in his P-40 . |
| 22 | With one of the pair in orbit , the interferometer swings around much more rapidly — reducing the time required for observing each source — and the separation is not limited by the size of the Earth : present technology permits a radio telescope in an orbit a hundred times larger , improving the resolution a hundredfold over that possible from Earth |
| 23 | In fact sir , the County Council 's figures produced in another appendix , ca n't lay my hands on it at the moment , had put this figure in as three thousand six hundred and fifty , but the nub of those two things are , that over that six month period , we 're not only seeing more houses built but we have more consented , and that has n't affected the residue that appears in the rest of these schedules . |
| 24 | It could mean bringing somewhere between about ten and fifteen million pounds into Shropshire over that six years from Europe , into , into Shropshire , not in the whole of March 's area , but into Shropshire , during that period , to help projects in the rural west of the county . |
| 25 | Erm and then averaging it out over that six seven months . |
| 26 | Therefore I believe that man and his God have evolved together over that immense period of time which started with the advent of earthly life , reaches right through to the present time and will continue onwards forever , or until there is no longer life on earth . |
| 27 | She felt the hood over that sensitive spot being peeled back , and the small pink organ enticed out , until it stood proudly erect screaming for the touch of his fingertips . |
| 28 | They wore the same green and white of malai children all over that archipelagic state . |
| 29 | You can make connections or deals on the floor , but you know that it 's over that expense-account lunch , or in the private suite , the yacht , that real money is changing hands . |
| 30 | There 's no reason for the door to stay shut for good over that flying incident , but it will only be opened if he wants it enough . ’ |