Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [prep] a [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilson was quick to see how provocative such a development would be to the shipowners and refused to accept the post , though he confessed to have been " foolish enough to have allowed myself to be nominated and elected as honorary general manager , which meant that I was lending my name to an organization over which I had no control " . |
| 2 | Yet as soon as this activity began in Vicky , a storm of weeping — as I judged the sensation — accumulated in my breast like a storm over the Alps . |
| 3 | When working alone , I carry my stakes in a sack over my left shoulder . |
| 4 | There were girls fixing their make-up at a mirror over the mantelpiece , or scanning notices on the board — items for sale , extra tuition offered , rooms to share , sodalities to join . |
| 5 | Refusing to shut her eyes in case she succumbed again , Sarella fixed her gaze on a point over his shoulder on the scarlet wall opposite . |
| 6 | FRUSTRATED Leeds have been wounded by two more injury blows as they bid to kick-start their season with a win over Hull KR tomorrow . |
| 7 | In Division Two , Harwich and Dovercourt 's chances of going up would be strengthened with a win over Old Palmerians and likewise Clacton , in Division Three , could help their cause with a win over Ilford Wanderers . |
| 8 | Nevertheless she found herself giving the details of her history to a woman over the telephone who fortunately spoke English , along , she was told , with five other languages . |
| 9 | By notice of motion dated 12 April 1991 the plaintiff made application to the county court for committal to prison of the defendants , alleging breach of the injunction by their execution of a charge over the property . |
| 10 | Her husband 's smile , which she had long since discovered to be a deceitful thing , wavered on his lips like a breeze over a cornfield , and he was slow to answer . |
| 11 | But an even more important contribution was his concept of a sum over histories . |
| 12 | Mr Bedi , from Brentwood , Essex , had won an order preventing BT from cutting off his phone in a row over an unpaid bill . |
| 13 | Then out to his bed in a loft over the cowshed , leaving the family to draw in together in a cosy , alien-excluding unit around the flaming and hissing timber , to lie and smoke by the light of a candle and think o better days in the orphanage and wonder in unembittered fashion — for he had been happy there — about the mother who had abandoned him and the even shadowier lover who must have abandoned her . |
| 14 | The Blackburn rider opened his scoring with a win over Robert and Joey Dunlop in the Mobil One Superbike race . |
| 15 | Mail-enabled spreadsheets allow you to send your work to a colleague over a network . |