Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I lock along my collection of phrenology books , including titles such as The Brain and How to Read It , and run my fingers with affection over the porcelain phrenological head that stands on my filing cabinet , I often wonder what future generations will make of today 's psychologists . |
| 2 | In fact when I keep my Topper at home over the winter , they just lift the whole thing up into the roof of the garage , keeps it right out of the way . |
| 3 | As an American I can only hang my head in shame over the Bill Clinton sex scandal . |
| 4 | Oh Spilled my cup of tea over the tablecloth . |
| 5 | Italian firm Same-Lamborghini has done its bit for variety over the years , with a series of innovations that suggest that its research and development department gets a bigger budget than many other companies ' equivalents . |
| 6 | At the same time were born new heroes and demigods ; the Hollywood dream factory , which had already indelibly stamped the character of both North America and Great Britain by the 1940s , began to spin its web of enticement over the whole of popular culture . |
| 7 | The latest Confederation of British Industry survey of manufacturing companies shows that more than six times as many companies expect to maintain or increase their investment in training over the next year than expect to reduce it . |
| 8 | When in 1862 the general synod of the SEC removed the Scottish communion office from its primacy of authority over the English Book of Common Prayer he took the Episcopal bishops to court , appealing as far as the House of Lords ; he defended his case himself but lost the action in 1867 . |
| 9 | The session was largely spent in helping her further to express her feelings of distress over the separation . |
| 10 | This similarity suggests a relationship between a person 's position in the organizational structure and their scope of influence over the design . |
| 11 | Iran on Sept. 10 repeated its claim of sovereignty over the Gulf islands of Abu Musa , Tunb al-Kubra and Tunb al-Sughra , and rejected a Sept. 9 statement by the six-nation Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) supporting the UAE 's sovereignty [ see below ] . |
| 12 | When Argentina recognises the right to self-determination and freedom of association of the Falklands people , and gives up her claim to sovereignty over the territory , we might be more amenable to trade and contact . |
| 13 | There were , however , important differences : there was always a king , or claimant king , of Macedon ; but there was not always a tagos of Thessaly ( their word for ruler over the four great districts or tetrarchies of Thessaly . ) . |
| 14 | The judge who jailed both father and son for their outburst in court over the sentencing of the man who killed a member of their family showed no compassion . |
| 15 | 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 ] . |
| 16 | He showed no desire to get up and greet me but I was merciless and dragged him inch by inch over the cobbles till he was lying at my feet . |
| 17 | ‘ Simon sitting between the twins and Piggy , wiped his mouth and shoved his piece of meat over the rocks to Piggy who grabbed it . |
| 18 | Then he slides his saucepan of milk over the flame . |
| 19 | Gary Wolstenholme drew on his wealth of experience over the Hoylake course to give England the all-important point which keeps them on course for a fifth title in a decade . |
| 20 | Edward agreed to renounce his claim to the French crown , while John was to abandon his demand for sovereignty over the lands ceded to the English . |
| 21 | One of the striking things about Havel is his commitment to drama over the past quarter-century and his insistence , in the period immediately before the Czech revolution , that he was first and foremost a writer . |
| 22 | If a third party has harmed the child , therefore , the statutory criteria will only be met if a reasonable parent would have acted to prevent the harm or was unable to do so because of his lack of control over the child . |
| 23 | In other words it should express , in terms meaningful to all company functions , agreed targets as to what product range(s) are to be sold in which market(s) in what quantities per year over the planning period . |
| 24 | Although promotion slipped from our grasp early on , our fight for survival over the last seven months has been real nail-biting stuff . |
| 25 | If you have planned and carried out your strategy of study over the earlier laps , like the 5000-metre runner , you should be on the inside lane and in a good position at the bell for the last lap . |
| 26 | If you encounter problems , you may want to kneel down alongside the dog , keeping your hand in place over the hindquarters and the leash in an upright position . |