Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] over the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been a great weight on my shoulders over the last month . |
| 2 | I try to keep my diary clear and concentrate on collating and editing all the material that has been arriving in my in-tray over the previous weeks . |
| 3 | I cast my eye over the front page of the Telegraph while Anne poured the coffee . |
| 4 | Thomas 's hospitals by my constituents over the past year ? |
| 5 | ‘ Help ! ’ she called once , until I had my hand over the lower part of her face . |
| 6 | Building up the Rose Bowl is going to take all my energies over the next year or so . |
| 7 | We thank all our customers for their support over the past year . |
| 8 | She sat up and tugged her shirt over the hopeless tangle of her hair . |
| 9 | Although this is not so good as the quick sponge or madeira cake for cutting and shaping , it is ideal for the simpler shaped fantasy cakes and its advantage over the quick sponge is that it is lighter . |
| 10 | He and Henry had been going all their grown-up lives to the British Transport Museum in Clapham , running their fingers over the polished wheels , regretting the end of brass fitments , and taking in the beauty of the fish-net luggage racks . |
| 11 | Mrs. Fielding , who suffers from extreme nervousness , was staying with one of her sons over the new year when thieves broke into her home in Milton Keynes and ransacked it . |
| 12 | When appealed to for her support over the ginger beer , Araminta had laughed . |
| 13 | Trembling , she ran her fingers over the taut muscles of his chest , and feverishly explored the hard length of him . |
| 14 | His tousled hair gave him an appealingly boyish appearance , and Robbie found herself aching to smooth it for him , to run her fingers over the dark stubble on his cheeks . |
| 15 | Robbie had to fight down an impulse to reach out and run her fingers over the dark mat . |
| 16 | Mrs Thatcher sees nothing in the single market which cuts against the grain of her policies over the past decade , since it should promote the free enterprise culture within the EC . |
| 17 | The Netherlands government expressed its disappointment over the Indonesian decision and regret over " the words in which it was phrased " . |
| 18 | They did n't even bother to use the gate but swung their legs over the low railing and walked straight in among the stones to where the girl was . |
| 19 | There would of course have been no story if the author had not given Ayesha enough of human frailty and caprice to bring about certain changes in the circumstances of her rule over the cannibalistic Amahaggar and her relations with Leo Vincey . |
| 20 | BASS , the UK 's biggest brewer and pub owner , are now well on their way to meeting the November 1992 deadline for disposing or freeing half their pubs over the 2,000 limit . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , some contact was made with the village , primarily through teachers and medical assistants , and the SRs were able to exert their influence over the All-Russian Peasants Union , the most important peasant body to emerge during 1905 . |
| 22 | This provocative thesis , very much connected with the questions of the transnational capitalist class discussed above , and their influence over the popular masses in developing countries , lies at the centre of the debate over the economic , political and cultural-ideological TNPs in developing countries . |
| 23 | Does my hon. Friend agree that our achievements in that aspect of education could not be better illustrated than by that which pertains in Nottinghamshire , where the university now has the highest ratio of applications to available places and where Nottingham polytechnic , which is soon to be a university , is planning to increase its capacity over the next couple of years to 16,000 student places ? |
| 24 | Thanks to the committee members for all their help over the last year and particularly to Graham Espin for many years of enthusiastic effort with the committee , to Ross Hamilton our treasurer for all his hard work , to Mrs Sheila Peterson for her abilities as vice chairman and particularly her talent with the children at our functions , to Miss Netta Gibling who , as ever , provides continuity and expertise as secretary . |
| 25 | presented ( retiring Teachers ' Representative ) with a beautiful bowl of plants on behalf of all the teachers and thanked for her work over the past years . |
| 26 | THE parents of a two-year-old boy suffering from a rare genetic disorder delivered a petition to the Prime Minister yesterday , in their battle over the controversial closure of a bone marrow transplant unit . |
| 27 | Hang their harps over the misty valleys |
| 28 | Before she got into bed she touched it once , running her fingertips over the smooth manilla package . |
| 29 | She turned to sign for the gear , and ran her eye over the other signatures on the page . |
| 30 | Oh , well , I 've made somebody 's day , ’ she said to herself as she walked briskly through the department , running her eye over the smooth operation of the unit . |