Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun sg] over [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He complained that health authority officials sitting on the Ling Trust board , including unit general manager Murray Duncanson , would not surrender their control over staff at the homes . |
| 2 | Both leaders agreed to submit their dispute over sovereignty over the 1,000-km Aouzou territorial strip , seized by Libya in 1973 , to the adjudication of the International Court of Justice at The Hague , as stipulated in the " Algiers Accord " signed by both sides in August 1989 [ see p. 36841 ] . |
| 3 | Before doing so , the UK and France settled their dispute over rankings in voting power in the IMF league . |
| 4 | When the foreign ministers of the non-aligned states assembled in February 1981 a Soviet commentary linked their concern over tensions in the ‘ Arab Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula ’ to the expansion of the American military presence in Oman and American arms sales to Somalia and Egypt . |
| 5 | Rangers nevertheless extended their lead over Aberdeen in the championship to ten points after a performance which had seemed destined to go unrewarded before the floodgates opened . |
| 6 | Round she went , mouth slightly parted , eyes seeing who knew what in that circle of lights running into a liquid line as the machine quickened ; in the faces , all one blur below her as she was swung out to them and back away from them again ; in the dark caverns of leaves away above in the trees which seemed so distant , so other , lit in strange patches by the wandering spotlights , strange shadows feeling their way over branches as the lighted islands in the gathering dark turned and twirled , swayed , shuddered , slowed and came to rest . |
| 7 | Motor Racing : Mansell completes hat-trick in the heat Timothy Collings sees the Williams team stamp their superiority over McLaren in the Brazilian Grand Prix |