Example sentences of "his [noun sg] of [noun] over [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Rodrigo strove mightily not to offend his Moorish subjects , especially in Valencia which became his base of operations over the succeeding months . |
2 | He slung his cloak of feathers over the staff and Scathach helped him to sit down in the slight shelter that this garment offered . |
3 | ‘ Simon sitting between the twins and Piggy , wiped his mouth and shoved his piece of meat over the rocks to Piggy who grabbed it . |
4 | Then he slides his saucepan of milk over the flame . |
5 | Gary Wolstenholme drew on his wealth of experience over the Hoylake course to give England the all-important point which keeps them on course for a fifth title in a decade . |
6 | Equally , it is not unknown for a partner gradually to lose interest in mundane administrative matters : often enough the problems that this can cause are exacerbated by his co-partners allowing him to escape his share of responsibility over a long period . |
7 | While a sleep-deprived subject at the Walter Reed Institute was able to respond as quickly in a simple reaction-time task as when rested , his pattern of responses over an extended series of trials , with the experimenter determining when stimuli were to be presented , would include an increasing number of very slow responses . |
8 | He was able to extend his sphere of influence over a large area of south-eastern Britain . |
9 | If a third party has harmed the child , therefore , the statutory criteria will only be met if a reasonable parent would have acted to prevent the harm or was unable to do so because of his lack of control over the child . |
10 | I regret to inform him that , as things stand , he gives the impression that he intends to cling , right reason or none , to his position of power over a people who have consistently told him and his party that they want no part of it . |