Example sentences of "in a [noun sg] [noun sg] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The priest , highly regarded in educational circles , was transferred from his school position by church authorities to work as a curate in a country parish over the summer . |
| 2 | KENNETH Branagh brings a lot of folk out in hives and I was scratching myself furiously at the thought of Ken , Em , Stephen , Tony , Hugh and Imelda — plus Em 's distinguished mum Phyllida Law as the faithful retainer — all holed up , chummy as you please , in a country house over the Yuletide hols , quaffing bubbly and beating their breasts . |
| 3 | He came up behind her , reaching out as water washed in a surface line over the glass of his vizor . |
| 4 | There was a reproduction of ‘ The light of the World ’ in a bamboo frame over the mantelpiece . |
| 5 | I will expand further on this dichotomy between quality and quantity of ‘ crime ’ in Chapter 5 , but would argue that the chase for numerical detections in which detectives everywhere are immersed moves them across another conceptual boundary and takes them into a statistical world away from their previous world as ‘ real polises ’ where the central classifier of conflict with the ‘ prig ’ remains , as ever , in a power struggle over the body ( Foucault 1977 ) . |
| 6 | Even less visible except to immediate participants and police is the routine ‘ slow rioting ’ of Saturday night street brawling , which ( according to the perceptions of all the chiefs constables I have interviewed in a research project over the last year ) is assuming more menacing and violent proportions throughout the country . |