Example sentences of "a [noun sg] over [pron] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony Myler … the Widnes star is facing a decision over his future after an injury-hit career |
| 2 | I 'd been wanting to break a board over my head for a long while . |
| 3 | She sneaked a look over her shoulder at him . |
| 4 | It 's very difficult now with all the other cutbacks , I just do n't know how I 'm going to manage and whether or not I 'll have a roof over my head by the end of the year or what will be happening . |
| 5 | Contented as she was with the house , Virginia was always to cast a glance over her shoulder at her sister , living just five miles away at Charleston . |
| 6 | He can flick a football over his head with perfect control , pick up a guitar and find a tune . |
| 7 | Anderson captained Ireland on their short tour of France , led them to an unexpected victory over a French XV and keeps the job now but age and waning powers put a question-mark over his selection for the team at all . |
| 8 | We wasted days and days dancing in the Pink Pussy Club , yawning at Fat Mattress at the Croydon Greyhound , ogling strippers on Sunday mornings in a pub , sleeping through Godard and Antonioni films , and enjoying the fighting at Millwall Football Ground , where I forced Changez to wear a bobble-hat over his face in case the lads saw he was a Paki and imagined I was one too . |
| 9 | Refusing to shut her eyes in case she succumbed again , Sarella fixed her gaze on a point over his shoulder on the scarlet wall opposite . |
| 10 | Particularly note if anyone else has a right over your land in respect of paths , drives , drains , mains services , mining for minerals , use of streams or beds of streams etc , and note whether your external drains and mains services cross anyone else 's land . |
| 11 | The threat had hung like a sword over his head for years and he wanted to confront it once and for all . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's it , ’ said Bodie with a smile over his shoulder at her . |
| 13 | Sister will put a pad over your eye for the time being ; I 'll telephone the hospital and we 'll arrange for someone to drive you over there . ’ |
| 14 | The highwayman had a mask over his face during the robbery and kept it up when he rode away — and a horse is a horse . |
| 15 | Spicer and Pegler , now part of Touche Ross , has received a writ over its work as former auditor of Barlow Clowes . |
| 16 | The back flap of his breacan-feile was drawn up as a hood over his head against the weather . |
| 17 | They have also aroused Protestant anger against Dr Runcie , at the same time as he has become involved in a row over his attack on the ‘ Pharisees ’ of British society . |
| 18 | Then she realized what she had said and put a hand over her mouth in consternation . |
| 19 | McGovern , too , was involved in a controversy over his attitude to the Spanish Republican Government . |
| 20 | He is embroiled in a controversy over his opposition to the ordination of woman priests in the church he has served for more than 40 years , the last 23 as bishop . |
| 21 | The sea is calm , but such ripples as there are flick the light from the sun about and refract the view of the pebbles so that staring over the edge of the kayak is like peeing into a kaleidoscope over whose speed of rotation you have no control . |
| 22 | He jabbed a thumb over his shoulder at the interior . |