Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun sg] [noun sg] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the fact that he had won a signal victory over the headmaster on Monday night made him reluctant to pit himself against him again so soon . |
| 2 | Sharif , 41 , was backed by the coalition Islamic Democratic Alliance ( IDA ) , which had won a landslide victory over the Pakistan People 's Party ( PPP ) in the general election held in October [ see pp. 37763-64 ] . |
| 3 | Glebov 's Fifth Symphony opens with an introduction featuring a solo tuba , low in its register , winding a motto theme over the distant rumbling of a bass drum . |
| 4 | Place a serving plate over the top of the terrine , invert it and give the top a tap . |
| 5 | The third — and the most vigorous grower — is planted in ordinary compost in an empty sweet jar which has a polythene bag over the top . |
| 6 | It has a lantern tower over the crossing . |
| 7 | With medieval courtesy , the recipient dropped a thank-you note over the donor 's base . |
| 8 | Instead , distract your child 's attention from the buckles by fitting a play tray over the top . |
| 9 | They offended some of the more straight-laced among the constructors — people who might have been more inclined to help the Fittipaldis if they kept better company — and generally put a question mark over the Fittipaldi team : how it was surviving , with whose backing , by what means . |
| 10 | We put a marker buoy over the site and a pair of divers went over the side to investigate . |
| 11 | After a short ceremony at their Sheffield Park Station at 2.00pm in the presence of Mr Andrew Dow , head of the NRM at York , she will haul a VIP train over the full length of the recently extended Bluebell . |
| 12 | Hold a knife blade over the housing and it goes all over the place , proving the point . |
| 13 | It was the custom in Egypt , on the Friday after a body had been interred , for the women of the family to visit the tomb , where they would break a palm branch over the grave and distribute cakes and bread to the poor . |
| 14 | Place the meat on one half of the pastry and run a lattice cutter over the other half to within 5mm/¼in of the pastry edges . |
| 15 | If you do n't have a propagator or frame , root cuttings in a pot on the windowsill , but pop a polythene bag over the top . |
| 16 | At an auspicious moment the groom threw a gold chain over the bride 's neck and presented her with a wedding dress and jewels . |
| 17 | At last , satisfied , he went to the sink and washed his hands , then came back and threw a muslin cloth over the board and its bloodied contents . |
| 18 | A temporary solution is to enlarge the pinhole , empty out the water and tie a plastic bag over the ball . |
| 19 | If we 'd had a boom economy over the last five years , the Stock Exchange would never have thought of phasing out the USM . ’ |
| 20 | Immediately , the watching Russian jumped out , spraying a fire extinguisher over the creature 's head . |
| 21 | Other demands included the resignation of television director-general Pavel Pisarev , whom the students accused of maintaining a news blackout over the election irregularities and over protest demonstrations . |
| 22 | He bought some rocks and stones , and spent the long summer evenings building a rock garden over the grave . |
| 23 | Fred was thin , Arthur very fat , and Fred 's head made a pecking movement over the bulk of his friend with the effort of bearing the load . |
| 24 | When John hung a cupboard on small metal brackets , she insisted on climbing up to paint a trompe l'oeil over the brackets as camouflage . |
| 25 | What she got a breakfast session over the |
| 26 | I usually make a tape hood over the static vents to allow them to breathe without letting water droplets get into the tubes . |
| 27 | But Peter Browning 's dismissal after 22 minutes changed all that and Cranleigh , having drawn level by half-time , looked a good bet to record a shock victory over the Dan Air leaders . |
| 28 | The absence of facilities within GIS software for handling the effects of input data uncertainty and possible error propagation by GIS operations creates a question mark over the safe utilization of many aspects of the technology . |
| 29 | Now you do n't have to rely on this , because you can ring through to head office in the evening , or you can ring through your branch while that 's open , and get a computer quote over the phone , but actually find it quite useful if somebody asks me to be able to give them an idea of how much it 's going to cost them . |
| 30 | The thumb prick had become a finger prick over the years and was the only bit which mildly hurt . |