Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pron] [noun] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sighed and scraped a little dry clay from under her nails , letting the words of her book flow over her eyes . |
| 2 | Greek Intelligence must have been taking a more than passing interest in the activities of our friend Andropulos over a long period , years I would think . |
| 3 | And the two of them shuffling in with the hoods of their duffel coats over their heads and their school scarves pulled over noses and mouths like a pair of monks doing the rounds during the Black Death . |
| 4 | In all 3,200 middle-aged men were given either beta blockers or diuretics for their blood pressure over a 10-year period . |
| 5 | Learn and remember about the bloodshed at Grunwick , the abuse of power by union barons with their iron control over the last Labour government , the continual disruption of industry by strikes , flying and mass pickets , the uncollected rubbish and unburied dead , inflation at 27 per cent . |
| 6 | The dogs down our road look over their shoulder , |
| 7 | They have trained hundreds of dogs at their Oxfordshire centre over the last 5 years . |
| 8 | To massage your palm , support the back of your hand with your fingers and make small rotary motions with your thumb pad over one spot at a time . |
| 9 | The objective is to enable them to move EDI messages around the organisation and also , via the VAX , to exchange EDI communications with their trading partners over a range of different networks . |
| 10 | FU2 , meanwhile , have locked horns with their record company over their track ‘ No Head , No Backstage Pass ’ . |
| 11 | The Natural Environment Research Council , which co-ordinates much of Britain 's research into global warming , faces a 10 per cent cut in real terms in its research budget over the next five years — despite the fact that the government stresses the importance of its work . |
| 12 | The former arrangements by which district councils over a certain size could receive or claim delegated powers from counties in respect of certain services were repealed and replaced by a ‘ provision under which local authorities can agree between themselves for one to carry out functions on behalf of another ’ ( Department of the Environment/Welsh Office 1974:2 ) . |