Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [noun] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime , he appealed to the republics to declare a moratorium " on decisions which give rise to arguments over the issue of competence " , complaining that the alternative was incurable paralysis . |
| 2 | She told neighbours by telephone over the weekend that she intended to stay in Spain until the end of this month . |
| 3 | I bloody have done years ago you chuck buckets of water over them . |
| 4 | In England , the guidelines issued by the Lord Chief Justice for sentencing in rape cases set out a starting point of eight years ’ imprisonment for two or more rapists acting together , for men who rape victims in the victim 's own home , for those who abuse positions of responsibility over their victims and for rape involving abduction . |
| 5 | We would begin to thread our way up the railway 's magical valley with sonorous rumbling as we negotiated bridge after bridge over the River Onny . |
| 6 | He dismissed suggestions of disarray over the arrangements to supply £500 million worth of programmes for next year 's schedule . |
| 7 | Mr Sugar 's other main company interest , Tottenham Hotspur , was in demand as it climbed 14p to 103p over speculation that chief executive Terry Venables might buy Mr Sugar 's stake in the club . |
| 8 | Encore Computer Corp , Fort Lauderdale , Florida has teamed with New Straits Times Technologies Pvt Ltd of Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia to establish Asia Pacific Encore Pvt Ltd , and looks for it to generate $55m of business over the next five years . |
| 9 | It follows years of wrangling over a controversial by-pass . |
| 10 | The Director General at the French Foreign Office , Francois Scheer , held talks with government officials in Tehran on July 9-10 , and said that an agreement was expected within " a couple of weeks " ; he denied reports of disagreements over Iran 's access to uranium supplies and stressed that the difficulties been " technical " . |