Example sentences of "of [art] [noun pl] over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I 'd suddenly recalled was a picture hanging over the altar in the caravan ; this in turn had reminded me of one of the statues over the south porch of the Cathedral . |
| 2 | It is not surprising that in many of the contests over the centuries , no archer has been able to ‘ ding doon ’ the papingo . |
| 3 | The deputation told the story of the harassment of the Blacks over the months and emphasised the various indications that the government 's undercover organisations were responsible . |
| 4 | I could see the top of the house and one of the skylights over the loft . |
| 5 | Sometimes when I , I write a poem I want to create a particular mood erm giving the piece erm a shape , a , a definite shape or just a shadowy shape erm and the overcoat in er Bon Jour Monsieur Gaugin , I found very , very expressive and the starting point for , for this particular poem I 'll hand this round to you know , with the name of the , the front , right I do n't , has anybody , if you already know this picture , does anybody actually know it already ? , no I start with the overcoat obviously erm very expressive , not just because it was , people wear over , overcoats in cold days , but it was the size of the coat and the shape of it and , and it gave me a weight , I felt , er I felt a very definite mood erm about this picture because of the coat and it was a , er a ejective mood that I , that I felt from that , and the stick in the erm hands of the women over the bridge gave me the sound for , for this poem would you like me to read as the , the thing being passed around , would that be ok ? |
| 6 | There were other more crude or more generic representations of the victories over the Celts . |
| 7 | This fact is reflected in Greek myth , which commemorates the victory of the Olympians over the Titans . |
| 8 | We had ample occupation watching the play of the clouds over the sides of the hills , and the bits of rugged moor and moss and flowing stream that enlivened the way ; but at a turning within some three miles of the inn of Kinlochewe , as we were about to pass the east-going mail gig with its complement of travellers , our driver jerked the horses into a ditch , which upset our machine and broke one of the springs . |
| 9 | It was inspired by the victory of the Poles over the Turks in Bessarabia in 1621 and sings of the heroism of the Slavs in their long fight against the infidels . |
| 10 | The bees shiver their indirect night muscles , which ( ‘ buzz ’ ) vibration promotes the expulsion of a cloud of pollen grains from the tips of the anthers over the insects . |
| 11 | First , the adoption of lightweight construction for new partition walls and the structure of the upper floor , although kind to the integrity of the original building fabric , has led to excessive sound transmission between rooms , a condition which is exacerbated by the inversion of the normal domestic arrangement — ie , the siting of the living-rooms over the bedrooms . |
| 12 | ‘ And we dropped the rest of the weapons over the side into the sea before leaving the ship . |
| 13 | Just a wringing of the hands over the ferment which is developing in Europe . ’ |
| 14 | With the dispersal of the children over the country it was vital for the RCM to decentralise its activities . |
| 15 | The war and everything , and that jumbo blown out of the skies over the Atlantic … ’ |
| 16 | In practice this might require constant supervision of the patients over the course of several weeks . |
| 17 | Do n't miss the Ponte Vecchio — a whole street of gold and jewellery shops perched along one of the bridges over the river — or the Duomo , one of the loveliest cathedrals you 'll ever see . |
| 18 | During their retreat , the Germans had added to the destruction by blowing up all ten of the bridges over the river : where these had been , the riverbed was partially blocked by great piles of masonry . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's one of the vents over the sewer shaft , ’ Nicholson explained . |
| 20 | Jean-Claude sang him one of the poems over the telephone . |