Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow if I could only know what he was doing and who he was seeing , that gave me some kind of control over the situation . |
| 2 | He 'd had my bald account of events over the telephone in the morning , his first knowledge of what had happened . |
| 3 | It was also in this year that the Company lost — at least legally — its sole right of control over appointments , for schoolmasters were now required to hold licences from the Bishop of their province in this case , Chester . |
| 4 | " I hope I did n't wake you up , Aunt Tossie — I brought you these , " she proffered the scone because she had decided that Aunt Tossie really merited some small recognition for her mistaken act of kindness over the spinach . |
| 5 | Denis Evans , secretary of the WRU , said : ‘ Both men have demonstrated their great commitment to Wales over the last nine months and have shown they have the talent and organisational ability to help generate success for the Welsh team at the highest level . ’ |
| 6 | Thus , someone who is primarily in an anorexic phase , using starvation as his or her prime method of control over emotions and relationships , may have episodes of bingeing and then starve again as a method of gaining further , illusory , control and in order to control the physical consequences of the binge . |
| 7 | It is explicable , at one level , by their profound sense of guilt over their own privileges , cultural and material , for which the masses , as Lavrov wrote , had paid ‘ billions of lives , oceans of blood , incalculable suffering and the endless toil of generations ’ . |
| 8 | One of the best reasons for upgrading to version 4.5 is its dramatic increase in speed over previous versions . |
| 9 | European directives on acquired rights and the transfer of undertakings regulations have given public service shop stewards their first glimmer of light over C C T which they fought for a decade with little more than their own bluff and courage . |
| 10 | Notwithstanding the official explanations , most observers interpreted the move as a display of Russian displeasure over Japan 's relentless pursuit of its territorial dispute with Russia over the Northern Territories . |
| 11 | She no longer linked the flight with her own act of disobedience over the spinach , ably abetted by Aunt Tossie . |
| 12 | He also has no hesitation in reminding capitalism , in its spooky hour of triumph over communism , that the ‘ culture of contentment ’ has always depended on this underclass — indeed , has happily imported it when necessary to do the menial and distasteful jobs at the cheapest possible wage . |
| 13 | LSI estimates its floating point at 15% over the existing LSI part and 25% better than competitors ' . |
| 14 | Private home owners in Cleveland have been given leave to take their local authority to court over the contracts . |
| 15 | ‘ Do you think that gives you some kind of hold over me ? |
| 16 | ‘ And that gives you some sort of hold over me ? ’ |
| 17 | Ken was in his usual attire of raincoat over flannel trousers . |
| 18 | His narrow victory at Mosport over Regazzoni put the two men equal on points with one race to go at Watkins glen , with Scheckter still in with an outside chance , and when Rega retired , Emerson settled in behind Reutemann , Pace and Hunt for the fourth place which was to give him the championship . |
| 19 | The former high class hurdler has not come off the bridle to record two effortless chasing victories and , although this is his stiffest task to date over fences , he should have little difficulty in completing the hat-trick . |
| 20 | Fairbrother yelled , ‘ Goodbye , Toady ! ’ after the Murrays ' car , and crowed loudly with his diminishing circle of admirers over his enemies ' downfall , thereby reducing his popularity still further . |
| 21 | If the individual has a long position , his actual rate of return over the one-year holding period ( rh ) ( assuming T= I ) is . |
| 22 | Dinah and her father were discussing his forthcoming production of Macbeth over supper . |
| 23 | British Airways is suing Virgin Atlantic Airways and its chairman Richard Branson for libel only weeks after Branson took his own action against BA over an alleged dirty tricks campaign . |
| 24 | Third , as we monitored our representative sample of schools over a three year period , we could perceive some of them undergoing a process of structural transition , shifting away from the simple two-tier model towards departmentalism and/or a matrix structure . |