Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Since we 're obviously about to enter a discussion on ethics , may I suggest it might be more comfortable to do so in my apartment over a cup of coffee and a glass of aquavit ? ’ |
| 2 | Then I pushed my car over a cliff and burned it . |
| 3 | Despite my closeness over a long period to Harold Wilson , I was certainly not close to his publicised cronies . |
| 4 | ‘ I was making my way over a field to the hives when I ‘ sort of ’ tripped over one of them and the bees came at me , ’ he said . |
| 5 | And she asked for their support over a difficult period . |
| 6 | The pioneering example here is a mammoth longitudinal study undertaken and described in a six volume work by Terman and his colleagues who , beginning in 1921 , selected a large group of so-called gifted children and then followed their progress over a period of thirty-five years . |
| 7 | It means you have to keep club staff there for a lot longer , till about 6.30 , and that people spend their money over a longer period of time . |
| 8 | The sudden weakness in her legs made her stumble over a non-existent obstacle , there was a blackness before her eyes and she would have fallen but for his lightning reactions and the strong hand that grasped her elbow , supporting her . |
| 9 | Though Marje believed that Phillip was living a bachelor life at a London hotel between trysts with her , he spent some of the time , at least , with Meli in her apartment over a hairdresser 's shop and a prostitute 's flat in London 's Kensington . |
| 10 | Turning the British fascist 's ‘ there ai n't no black in the union jack ’ bullshit on its head , 3:6 Philly argue their case over a snappy jazz groove for the original , and rip up Run DMC 's ‘ Back From Hell ’ beats for the ‘ Docta D version ’ . |
| 11 | Clearly , the circuit behaves as a rejection filter and figure 8.8(c) gives its response over a range of frequencies either side of the rejection frequency . |
| 12 | ‘ What would have been Britain 's level of development had millions of them been put to work as slaves outside of their homeland over a period of four centuries ? ’ asks Guyanese professor of history Walter Rodney . |
| 13 | This routine is designed to increase a person 's pulse rate , and then to monitor its decrease over a set period of time . |
| 14 | Shadow ministers who visited Washington thus found themselves at the centre of considerable attention , and were probed in detail on their thinking over a range of issues . |
| 15 | Their secret lies in their enormously elongated toes , which spread their weight over a wide area of lily leaf . |
| 16 | Borrowers are able to use the facility up to 140 per cent of their quota over a four-year period and with much more relaxed repayment conditions than the normal facilities . |
| 17 | The Israeli Labour government 's resort to harsh collective punishment tactics reflected its anxiety over a recent increase in guerrilla activities by Palestinian supporters of the Islamic Resistance Movement ( Hamas ) . |
| 18 | Since the end of the Second World War , state institutions have extended their influence over a whole range of activities which touch individual lives . |
| 19 | The unions have thus been able to extend their influence over a comprehensive range of working arrangements , and to reduce the areas of sole managerial prerogative . |
| 20 | The designers , Dr Barry Gorham and Jim Dudley , say that theoretically , by applying the same technology to microwaves , they could extend its range over a much wider area — even rain and snow . |
| 21 | At their graves their families would unite with their beloved over a memorial meal and a drink , easing their grief in recreating the family intimacy , only transiently ruptured . |
| 22 | She spread her towel over a cushion so that she could lean her damp , aching head against it , then shivered as she listened to the howl of the wind outside . |
| 23 | Then it takes its place over a period of time within the wider teaching of the principles , planning and practice of worship , enabling the ordinand to explore the theological and practical importance of music in an appropriate context . |
| 24 | They were charged that they did contrive , design and plot to murder MOIR NcILCHENICH widow of Ellister for mere avarice and covetousness to attain to her money which they supposed she had lying by her in her house and in pursuance of this plot did upon some day of April 1698 in dead time of night murder her by strangling her with her own belt and thereafter threw her body over a rock into the sea so that the deed was not discovered for some time . |
| 25 | They cooked strips of its meat over a fierce wood fire , but the old man 's appetite was small . |
| 26 | He saw it break its flight over a dell between the dunes , soar vertically and then head off at an angle . |
| 27 | Then she knelt down and ran her finger over a bullet hole . |
| 28 | FERRANTI International , the troubled defence electronics combine , could face a legal challenge from the trustees of the estate of its founder over a report into frauds totalling £215million . |
| 29 | Rasmussen and Milner ( 1975 ) summarise data collected in their clinic over a number of years ' use of the Amytal test ( see Wada and Rasmussen , 1960 ; Branch , Milner and Rasmussen , 1964 ) . |
| 30 | In contrast , the heteropolymer increases its disorder over a wide temperature range ( as the temperature is increased from well below T m to just below T m ) with an associated loss in electrostatic interactions . |