Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lesley Harrison , 29 , was knifed by a taxi passenger as she stepped between him and the driver during a row over the fare . |
| 2 | And ‘ it ’ might be a frantic drive down the coast for a weekend over the border into Mexico , or a trip into the wine-growing country beyond the Berkeley hills , or trying a new recipe involving chocolate sauce and lobster claws or something equally revolting . |
| 3 | The failure to engage in that kind of self-reflection was part of a self-assurance over the wider common culture . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's been a bit of a crisis over the weekend — some vital supplies have been held up — and , apparently , my presence is urgently required . ’ |
| 5 | If he did so intend then , in the case of a child over the age of 16 , his interpretation of the law was inconsistent with the express words of section 8(3) of the Act of 1969 . |
| 6 | IN THESE days when money is scarce for most rugby clubs Morley earned themselves £1,500 on the toss of a coin over the weekend . |
| 7 | Suggest other situations where there is scope for ‘ fiddling ’ based on the superior knowledge of the provider of a service over the customer . |
| 8 | One earlier example is of the cross-in-square type with a dome over the crossing . |
| 9 | ‘ You … you — ’ He stopped shouting and his mouth dropped open as he saw Dickon pushing a boy in a wheelchair over the grass towards him . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Soft ground would put stamina at a premium over the twelve furlongs , and doubts about Sir Ivor 's getting the trip contributed to Piggott 's tactics . |
| 12 | The question placed me in danger of a box over the ear from the broken-nosed physics master who , despite his pugnacious appearance , failed to keep order in any class . |
| 13 | But this time Hardy went straight on to the attack , putting Holmes on the canvas with a right over the top for an initial count of seven . |
| 14 | " Well , Kate ? " he said in his study , a small room with a cross over the mantelpiece . |
| 15 | Mr Boyle was alleged to have struck him with the crowbar in a row over the sale of T-shirts . |
| 16 | In the afternoon it was the same two Spaniards who led the home team to a whitewash over the visitors . |
| 17 | An investigation 's been launched into how three American bombers from an airbase in the region were involved in a near miss with a helicopter over the North Sea . |
| 18 | Following a visit to Beijing to sign an agreement on Hong Kong 's airport project [ see p. 38340 ] , the UK Prime Minister , John Major , paid a one-day visit to Hong Kong on Sept. 6 during which he promised to intervene personally with Chinese leaders in the event of a dispute over the status of Hong Kong . |
| 19 | It is thought that the presumption contained in subs ( 3 ) in relation to the purchase of land would be applied by analogy in the event of a dispute over the ownership of other assets purchased in similar circumstances . |
| 20 | Littlewoods could be on the verge of a decision over the future of the mail-order operations but making the business an irresistible buy will take a dramatic burst of salesmanship by the Moores family which owns this Liverpool group , and their merchant bankers at Kleinwort Benson . |
| 21 | A novel part of the plan is to link an access on the northern side of the old cattle dock and platform with a walkway over the line sheltered by overhead canopies ( and protected by demountable buffer stops ) . |
| 22 | If approaching from Kirkby Stephen , as is usual , a halt should be made at Stenkrith Bridge for a look over the parapets at the River Eden below , thrashing a passage through a deep limestone gorge . |
| 23 | The Australian & Oversees Telecommunications Corp has come up with a novel scheme to motivate its staff : alongside an immediate pay award of 3% and the prospect of a 5% over the next 18 months the company has promised $340 for each of 70,000 of its workers , the payment of which depends on customers ' rating of the service which they receive ; surveys will determine what proportion of customers are satisfied with billing , connections and fault-finding . |
| 24 | Does " If it 's raining the balcony is wet " mean , in however large a tolerable sense , something about other conditions-say the absence of a canopy over the balcony and so on ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | After re-packing her case , she fervently hoped for the last time , she had a wash , and because it looked sunny and warm outside dressed in a skimpy vest with a blouse over the top , and a rather strange Fifties-style skirt covered in poppies . |
| 27 | It seemed to Carolyn that there must be a vividly speeded up life flitting through the infant 's dreams , as if it skimmed in the air like a bird over the facts of its life and they were reflected as changingly and as unknowingly on its face as the moving bird would be in seas , rivers , lakes , in stagnant puddles on flat roofs , and silted-up canals . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The adjoining bathroom was equally clean and ready for use , with towels on a rail , and razor and shaving brush on a shelf over the basin . |
| 30 | FOOD giant Safeway have paid £1,500 for bunting on a bridge over the Thames in Reading , Berks — so swans do n't fly into the stonework . |