Example sentences of "[adj] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A LONDONDERRY school head has called ‘ foul ’ over dog owners who allow their pets to run free over a play area . |
| 2 | So if you 're free over the weekend you can come round yeah ? |
| 3 | You do n't want them emerging with the queasy feeling they could get whacked over the head on their way back to the car . |
| 4 | By the time the demo was over I was nearly nauseous at the presumptuousness of these notions and despondent over the lack of scepticism in the room . |
| 5 | Both Mr Pitman Senior and Junior were reps who grew progressively despondent over the standard of rooms and services they encountered on their travels . |
| 6 | London Weather Centre predicted that it would be warmer but wet over the weekend . |
| 7 | Fibreglass pools are obviously entirely rigid and free-standing , and present no such difficulties during construction , but one must be very careful over the choice of design , for most are made by fibreglass manufacturers with little understanding of plant life and it is often the case that reeds , rushes and irises are expected to become established on a marginal shelf no more than 8 cm ( 3 in ) wide , while the deeper areas of the pool will not have a sufficiently flat floor to place a single waterlily basket . |
| 8 | Other changes in structure developed more slowly , but although the pattern looked different over a period of a few years , analogues of the basic groups seem to have been present ever since the phenomenon of the contemporary football fan arose in the middle to late 1960s . |
| 9 | But the bottom of all the surrounding buildings is hidden by the high brick wall round the garden , and the top of them by the beige silk shades which are half-lowered over the windows . |
| 10 | And I was always cross-examined over the breakfast table . |
| 11 | The special rule of the kitchen is to make sure that there is light over every work surface so that you never work in your own shadow . |
| 12 | Company spokesman John Dodds said the investment would be staggered over a period of time and would not necessarily mean a glut of vacancies in Darlington . |
| 13 | And the words that went with it said that ‘ after enjoying a leisurely breakfast the eagle soared high over the park and set course north , towards Scotland , where golden eagles come from . |
| 14 | Mould soared high over the sea , heading for the mainland . |
| 15 | On a dry pitch Kieft might have gone for goal instead of squaring the ball to Berghuis , one of four new Dutch caps to appear during the game , whose shot sailed high over the bar . |
| 16 | His early through pass caught Brazil moving up too late for offside and Kieft broke clear before squaring the ball to Berghuis , one of three new caps in the Dutch team , who lifted his shot high over the bar . |
| 17 | Cambridge dominated the game and should have gone further ahead in the 76th minute when John Francis broke free , only to blaze high over the bar from the edge of the box . |
| 18 | Larne had a chance to equalise but Geoff Crothers shot high over the bar . |
| 19 | United were awarded a penalty in the first half which was put high over the bar . |
| 20 | That is , of course , when I was n't actually casting an eye at the rope and pulley high over the hall or taking a glance at the shotgun . |
| 21 | The long , square noses aimed up-wind , and bored forward until the wings developed lift and carried them , rocking and bucking , high over the hedge . |
| 22 | She grabbed Steve 's sleeve , their eyes in unison watched the ball sail through the air and high over the net . |
| 23 | Shorts returned the pressure and Beck 's drive went high over the net . |
| 24 | Five minutes into the half , Charlton 's corner of the game and Robert Lee volleyed the ball high over the crossbar . |
| 25 | I got up , walked backwards towards the nearest dune , threw the can way high over the top of it , then came back , lay down where I 'd been sitting earlier , and closed my eyes . |
| 26 | Those wonderful mornings in summer when the larks rose high over the mountains and you woke to the sound of cowbells and the sun streaming in through the window ? |
| 27 | Take me with you , wind , high over the sky . |
| 28 | At 5am , a Farman Biplane was sighted , flying high over the houses surrounding Fog Lane . |
| 29 | What goes right over high over the Thames . |
| 30 | Suggestions included removing the subsidence temperature inversion which trapped the smog , using ground-based fans , helicopters or thermal means ; eliminating the sunlight and thus the smog by producing a gigantic parasol of white smoke laid by aircraft high over the city ; removing the smog through tunnels in the mountains around the Los Angeles basin using huge fans ; and seeding the air with some sort of agent that would ‘ neutralize ’ the smog . |