Example sentences of "[pers pn] over [art] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall quite enjoy taming you over the next couple of weeks . ’ |
| 2 | It 's surprising just how much that interest can be worth to you over the full period of your course . |
| 3 | His back was smooth and firm , hot under her palms , and the muscles rippled as she slid her hands down and smoothed them over the slight swell of his hips . |
| 4 | There were always hundreds of students asking their foreign teachers for this ‘ favour ’ to get them over the first hurdle of the going abroad process . |
| 5 | Eventually , frantic with frustration , I managed to force them over the raw meat of my knuckles with my teeth , my sore and bleeding lips spreading red stains through the grating wool . |
| 6 | Pin them over the pleated ends of the swag , through the pocketed webbing tape on the back . |
| 7 | ‘ In this case it 's because they believe you 've tricked them over the supposed disappearance of Clarion Call . |
| 8 | He remembered how Izzy Kleiber had fought and kicked right to the end — until the moment when they lifted him up , then lowered him over the outer wall of the harbour , where the greedy river licked its oily lips and waited , invisible in the darkness below … . |
| 9 | Anyway , after I 'd introduced her to a few different locations and got her over the initial newness of the experience , she seemed perfectly willing to come to me . |
| 10 | ‘ But if that had been somebody else doing that to you … ’ she says softly , so that I can hardly hear her over the quiet thunder of the shower . |
| 11 | Now that 's , that 's perfectly valid but if the business actually improves , it takes off , you could have this advantage to , to do it over a shorter period of time , maybe in ten years ' time when business is really |
| 12 | ‘ I try to , ’ he conceded , then lifted a hand to rub it over the dark growth of beard on his jaw . |
| 13 | Price Waterhouse 's Australian arm has pledged to ‘ vigorously defend ’ what could amount to a multi-million dollar claim issued against it over the 1989 audit of failed textile company Linter Group Ltd . |
| 14 | Our eyes met and all the while we were sitting down discussing what we had to do and how we were going to go about it over the four days of the course , my gaze kept returning to the sour-faced buzzard . |
| 15 | The board is steered away from the wind by initially inclining the rig forwards and then leaning it over the windward side of the board . |
| 16 | Why do n't you wonder over here and bring a bottle of wine and we 'll share it over the next hour of the show . |
| 17 | One of the marvellous things about this record is that there 's so many references to all sorts of things that have happened to us over the last couple of years . |