Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [noun sg] over [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had arranged to meet Howard Imber , the writer , for a script conference over dinner at 8 , and fell on to the bed intending to rest for ten minutes before reading through the thick camera script . |
| 2 | Good For A Loan is potentially well treated on some of his form last term - which included a neck verdict over Sukaab at the Somerset circuit 13 months ago - and can produce a potent turn of foot under favourable conditions . |
| 3 | Certainly , he can enjoy the outcome for a day or two , but there is still a question mark over dealings in the longer term on the all-important economy , with the rivalry between the trading blocs dictating how ‘ special ’ the ‘ relationship ’ is likely to remain . |
| 4 | Director General Sir Michael Checkland put a question mark over favourites like Big Break , Telly Addicts and Going For Gold yesterday . |
| 5 | It was a paper produced by and for the radical , and generally non-tribal , urban Africans : in fact , it was very nearly involved in a libel case over criticism of Chagga chiefs . |
| 6 | After the river , he took a train as far as the Burmese would allow foreigners to go , about a hundred miles short of their guerrilla war , and after that there was a vintage plane over mountains to the real Burma Road ; the road whose legend occupies an odd corner of the memory , like Hannibal 's Alpine venture . |
| 7 | Now the Americans have fired a warning shot over Europe by tripling the duty on some EC imports . |
| 8 | Yesterday 's high winds could have swept a poison cloud over Teesside in a matter of minutes . |
| 9 | A friend of mine , who unfortunately was killed on a bombing mission over Germany in 1942 was always late — he never learned . |
| 10 | The police had been sent to arrest Faky Ali Ahmat and his followers because of a land dispute over ownership of the site of the mosque . |