Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [prep] [noun] over [pron] " in BNC.

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1	So , to calm her down , I threw my glass of wine over her . ’
2	Economic decline has been presented as one of the causes of the weakening of the power of the state bureaucracy and its loss of control over its powerful provincial magnates .
3	Many parents bitterly objected to their loss of control over their children ( and particularly to the violence of ritualised corporal punishment ) .
4	I was glad to see Ezra , because what biased attitudes he has are so biased that he manages to be , all round , a more generous-minded and discriminating person that others who spread their capacity for bias over their entire mental outlook ’ .
5	She did n't any longer need Derek absolutely here and now for her to feel the throb in her blood of full summer throwing its haze of satisfaction over everything that came to her senses .
6	The ancient streets could perhaps have been left to enforce their own low driving speeds through their narrowness , their cobbled surfaces and their lack of visibility over anything more than a few metres .
7	The precipitants to these outbursts were trivial and she was alarmed at both the extent of her anger and her lack of control over it .
8	Her renegotiations with Branson over her contract now became a question of who was using whom .
9	He 'd seen women in his boyhood with shawls over their heads and bare feet , with the same air of ancient breeding .
10	However , his preference for cricket over his academic studies resulted in his leaving Oxford early .
11	The Dalriadic Scots and the Britons , probably of Strathclyde , whom Ecgfrith had almost certainly driven into alliance with the Picts in 685 through his claims to supremacy over them ( see above , p. 100 ) , regained their independence , and the Picts threw off the overlordship of the northern Anglian king and recaptured territory formerly held by the Angles ( HE IV , 26 ) .

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