Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] their [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four days earlier he had scored two of Preston 's three goals in their win over Hull . |
| 2 | They could hear the squealing roars of their pursuers over the tumult of their mounts ' hoofs . |
| 3 | The signatories could congratulate themselves in not forgetting important details in their concern over large aims . |
| 4 | On the one hand , the teachers need to have certain patterns of their language over which they have implicitly mastery raised to the level of explicit knowledge , in order to help pupils to recognise those patterns where necessary . |
| 5 | Trivial or shallow , in particular , are criticisms levelled at young women for their concern over their appearance ; one of the worst current insults you can throw at an actress or pop star is that she 's a bimbo — concerned only with her looks and nothing else . |
| 6 | Local folklore has it that in prehistoric times men drove wild cattle to their deaths over Combe Scar and ate them where they fell at the foot of the crag ( cattle bones are reputed to have been found there ) . |