Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] [noun pl] [verb] over " in BNC.
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1 | as the storm clouds gathered over the struggling Third Division club . |
2 | You free yourself of the hold others had over you when you allowed them this control over your life . |
3 | Balance is reached by adjustment of the decade switches operating over the tappings of the secondary of the source transformer T 1 . |
4 | Naturally , most of the iron tonics sold over chemists ' counters were bought because of the universal metaphor that iron equals strength rather than because of a popular awareness of the needs of haemoglobin . |
5 | Despite the storm clouds gathering over Europe in Nazi Germany and fascist Italy , Nizan remained confident that the international political situation could be regulated on a peaceful basis by marshalling Republican , democratic forces in a united front determined to halt the fascist advance . |
6 | He stood with the carving implements poised over the ruined saddle . |
7 | It was at this moment that Signor Fixit appeared in the doorway with the plastic strips draped over his shoulders like variously coloured spaghetti . |
8 | Extra-judicial killings by the security forces increased over the same period . |