Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their appellate jurisdiction was also extended , presumably by agreement between the Inns and the judges , to issues relating to disputes over property within the Inns : Rakestraw v. Brewer ( 1728 ) 2 P.Wms. 511 , or over elections in the Inns : Inner Temple v. Ince ( 1677 ) 3 Keble 835 , or over debts due to the Inns : Levinz v. Randolph ( 1700 ) 1 Ld.Raym. 594 , which could not by any stretch of the imagination relate to the duties of judges in relation to the administration of justice in their courts . |
| 2 | He obtained the second by pretending to trip over an unseen obstacle , which inadvertently threw him against the foreman , knocking him to the ground and depositing his daily schedule papers all over the floor . |
| 3 | No er according to Robert over there . |
| 4 | ‘ I had considered going to California over the winter but I realised it was n't necessary . |
| 5 | So ehm , so , what she going to work over there then . |
| 6 | Successive governments have refused to implement the recommendation of the Evershed Committee in 1953 that the costs of going to law over issues of general public importance should be paid out of public funds . |
| 7 | As a very old colleague points out : ‘ It 's better than going to war over it . ’ |
| 8 | His silence about Megara is not complete : Pericles is described as telling the Athenians that they will not be going to war over a trifle , if they refuse to rescind the Megarian decree as the Spartans demand . |
| 9 | FOUR ex-servicemen have been booted out of a British Legion social club after going to war over what they believe are missing funds of up to £250,000 . |
| 10 | Turning to rights over tangible things , we must notice the distinction between ownership and possession . |
| 11 | Thirty volunteers will be travelling to Croatia over the next few weeks , taking three operating theatres from St. Mary 's Hospital , Portsmouth with them . |
| 12 | Britain is protesting to Germany over a planned mission to Baghdad by former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt . |
| 13 | While not giving details of the pricing , he said that the price-performance curve on the 80486 is the basis for pricing of the Pentium and that he expected the sort of dynamic that applied to the 80486 to apply to the Pentium as well — the 80486 being introduced at $900 to $1,000 and falling to $200 over a period of four years — at a rate of 30% per year . |
| 14 | I mean he was talking to Norman over the fence the other day and it sounds like gunfire |
| 15 | Get talking to people over a few drinks ; you 're better than me at that sort of thing . ’ |
| 16 | No , he 's alright , but I just hate talking to people over the phone . |
| 17 | I do n't know I was n't there , you was talking to Sandy over the fence . |
| 18 | In Unix , it has succeeded in creating the impression that it has far more of the management , security and support capabilities in place than any of its competitors , and while this may not be entirely valid , time and again in the computer industry , winning the perception is nine tenths of the battle : in the 1970s , it was universally acknowledged among the cognoscenti that Burroughs Corp had by far the best mainframe architecture and operating software , but that did nothing to prevent the vast majority of its users migrating to IBM over time . |
| 19 | He is the ‘ front of house ’ person at The Mill , and enjoys chatting to guests over drinks in the lounge before dinner . |
| 20 | Bowles and Gintis criticise the human capital theory as providing ‘ a good ideology for the status quo ’ and for the fact that ‘ the contribution of schooling to growth over the last half century may on balance have been negative . ’ |
| 21 | This is not about democracy , this is dictatorship , your trying to practice over a minority of people in this county . |
| 22 | Wainfleet could not resist gloating to Rain over his story of a romance between Hunter-Blair and Maureen . |