Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morse goes over the water |
| 2 | Murray got over the difficulty by appointing a triumvirate in command : Steward , Constable and Sir Archibald , with the Flower of Chivalry as specific military adviser . |
| 3 | Covering the sprawled guards constantly , Mortimer hopped over the bodies and continued downwards , his men jabbing the bodies with bayonets to make sure . |
| 4 | Has your view of Harlow changed over the years ? |
| 5 | Then Holmes bent over the body and began to move it . |
| 6 | Dalrymple presided over the halcyon days of ‘ c'moan or get aff ’ until his retiral in 1926 , and Dalrymple 's days saw the expansion of the system to 100 miles of track and an annual profit , together with a yearly 300 MILLION passengers , not all on the one tram of course . |
| 7 | Ma bent over the stove . |
| 8 | As the result of lengthy investigations into the Duzme Mustafa revolt , Mehmed Sah was implicated in that affair ; and , Husameddin relates , " Molla Fenari grieved greatly that at the end of the investigations , in the year 832 , Mehmed Sah Efendi passed over the bridge of death together with Candarlizade Ibrahim Pasa and the Grand Vezir Haci Ivaz Pasa . " |
| 9 | Kathleen bent over the unconscious patient and sniffed . |
| 10 | It seemed downright immoral to torment the poor woman with questions now just for the sake of proving the Jaguar 's brakes were faulty or Fanshawe driving over the seventy limit . |
| 11 | The salesman and Hank , however , seemed to have reached some agreement and strolled towards the office , where fat old Josh presided over the financing section with the careful rapacity of a born moneylender . |
| 12 | During their stay the Juan Carlos and Salinas presided over the signature of a five-year treaty of friendship and co-operation in the context of which Spain was to provide aid to Mexico of 4,400 million pesetas ( about US$40,000,000 at current exchange rates ) over five years in the form of credits and investment in the private sector . |
| 13 | As acting President Frederick Gilby presided over the BDDA 's first post-war Congress , held in Glasgow in 1920 , where Ernest Ayliffe was elected as the next President of the Association . |
| 14 | Frankie peered over the top of his comic , unable to resist the temptation to join in . |
| 15 | DG has over the last three to four years put a good deal of energy into reducing that cost base , but now , even with a quarterly breakeven level reduced to $270m from $350m , the company is struggling to make ends meet . |
| 16 | Dennis presides over the walled garden , which supplies the kitchens at Highgrove and Kensington Palace and grows all the weird and wonderful varieties that the Prince acquires and delights in surprising his guests with . |
| 17 | Mairi was still shrieking and striking at Luch while Master Beaton bent over the bed . |
| 18 | Hawkins bent over the slave and examined the padlock . |
| 19 | This will disgorge the stored information twice a day , at alternate intervals of 10 and 14 hours , as IRAS passes over the operational control centre at Chilton in Oxfordshire . |
| 20 | Waving his arms to attract their attention , Rocky bellowed over the noise of the roaring flames , crying youngsters and throbbing water pumps . |
| 21 | Tilda clambered over the washboard , and clinging on by fingers and toes to the strakes , half slithered and half climbed down the side , gathered up the cat and skimmed across to Rochester . |
| 22 | The reabsorption into landed society of those families who had suffered in the upheavals of the past decade was to be a slow process , and was to give rise to fresh disputes over lands claimed by families who had been on opposite sides , but Edward showed over the next twenty years that loyalty and service would receive their due reward . |
| 23 | For example , when Detroit triumphed over the San Diego Padres in the 1984 World Seriff , |
| 24 | A large , badly painted portrait of Mayor Donlevy hung over the desk . |
| 25 | Manville glanced over the driver 's shoulder , reading the meter . |
| 26 | Corbett walked over the soft rather damp clay of the cemetery , Ranulf and Maltote on either side . |
| 27 | One after another , the Doctor , Ace , Francis , Elaine , Defries and Bernice stepped over the thick cable and into the TARDIS . |
| 28 | I did not know how Dickie heard over the noise of the running taps , but at her ‘ He 's got it ! |
| 29 | The other Rex stepped over the fallen doorman . |
| 30 | Martin Foyle sent over the perfect cross , Lee Nogan got above the Spurs defence , he got his ball head to the ball , but it went over the cross bar and the chance had gone . |