Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] of [noun] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh Spilled my cup of tea over the tablecloth . |
| 2 | Any parent who has had an insomniac or hyperactive child will know the situation in which interruption of sleep over a long period frays tempers and seeks some other scapegoat than the child ; husband and wife may end in screaming at each other across the bedroom . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Kings Head has welcomed its share of celebrities over the year , including Turner , whilst working on his painting of Easby Abbey , Franz Liszt , who arrive late to play in the ballroom , and , more recently , Val Doonican . |
| 6 | This similarity suggests a relationship between a person 's position in the organizational structure and their scope of influence over the design . |
| 7 | 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 ] . |
| 8 | Gresham 's School , Holt have made their contribution of players over the years and they are the current holders of the Henry Griserson trophy for the side which most impressed the XL Club by its performance on and off the field in 1991 . |
| 9 | Rodrigo strove mightily not to offend his Moorish subjects , especially in Valencia which became his base of operations over the succeeding months . |
| 10 | He slung his cloak of feathers over the staff and Scathach helped him to sit down in the slight shelter that this garment offered . |
| 11 | ‘ Simon sitting between the twins and Piggy , wiped his mouth and shoved his piece of meat over the rocks to Piggy who grabbed it . |
| 12 | Then he slides his saucepan of milk over the flame . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Equally , it is not unknown for a partner gradually to lose interest in mundane administrative matters : often enough the problems that this can cause are exacerbated by his co-partners allowing him to escape his share of responsibility over a long period . |
| 15 | While a sleep-deprived subject at the Walter Reed Institute was able to respond as quickly in a simple reaction-time task as when rested , his pattern of responses over an extended series of trials , with the experimenter determining when stimuli were to be presented , would include an increasing number of very slow responses . |
| 16 | He was able to extend his sphere of influence over a large area of south-eastern Britain . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I regret to inform him that , as things stand , he gives the impression that he intends to cling , right reason or none , to his position of power over a people who have consistently told him and his party that they want no part of it . |
| 19 | 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 . |