Example sentences of "sort [prep] [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was clear that she saw the drift of his question but her answer was simple : ‘ Granny seemed to exercise a sort of spell over her sons , her husband too , I think . |
| 2 | You think I 'm trying to get you into bed so I can have some sort of hold over you . |
| 3 | ‘ And that gives you some sort of hold over me ? ’ |
| 4 | It is rather connected with the sort of conversation over the bar the other night . |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't do that to prove some sort of mastery over you , ’ he said evenly , and she drew in her breath sharply , wondering if he read her mind . |
| 6 | That 's those sort of top over things in n it ? |
| 7 | He talked religion with the great Erasmus Darwin in Derby , preached to sometimes vast congregations from Unitarian pulpits — ‘ my Sermons spread a sort of sanctity over my Sedition ’ — and returned in triumph to Bristol with the names of several hundred new subscribers . |
| 8 | BELVILLE : A wife should draw a sort of veil over her husband 's faults . |
| 9 | Hope you managed to get some sort of break over the weekend and that you 're not too behind on schedule — it 'll probably pick up later on in the shoot ! |
| 10 | Casually trailing something black and sort of flimsy over the chairback . |
| 11 | Drew another sort of curtain over the air , |
| 12 | In theory , guidelines for open systems are formulated when a committee of vendors come to some sort of agreement over architectural definitions and create a standard . |
| 13 | Well it was understood that Bisses got most of theirs from restaurants , and all restaurants I think had to sort of hand over all their waste for the war or something . |
| 14 | She would have had a sort of power over him . |
| 15 | To prove that you had some sort of power over me ? ’ |
| 16 | The most important thing to understand here is that people try to re-establish some sort of control over their situation . |
| 17 | Then he seemed to get some sort of control over himself again . |
| 18 | She turned her hot face into the pillows and tried to get some sort of control over her heartbeats . |
| 19 | Try to retain some sort of control over an emotional matter and expect partners to behave unpredictably and thoughtlessly . |
| 20 | planning applications , erm the sort of locational aspects are important , the the existing policy in the structure plan did have some sort of control over the the number of jobs , but it 's as as David Potter has said , it 's been very difficult to monitor er the level of jobs being provided , and in practice it 's been really impossible to implement that aspect of of the policy . |
| 21 | It made her feel as if he still had some sort of claim over her , and she really hated and resented that . |
| 22 | Still more important , one would then need an account of the state as the sort of thing over which capital could exercise power — a set of institutions with no autonomy of their own . |
| 23 | I 'm at the moment chairing a university working party on sexual harassment erm and what this working party erm intends to do is to try to survey experience gathered from the operation of codes and the appointment of people in college with a special responsibility for this sort of thing over the past few years , to see what we can learn from experience , so I 'd want to reserve judgement at the moment on what this committee might recommend is the best way forwards . |