Example sentences of "[prep] an [noun] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simon Scott converted , but the Scots , tired after an extra-time victory over the Hong Kong national side , lost 26-7 . |
| 2 | MONDAY September 7 saw the last flying Vulcan formatting with an RAF Hercules over Stamford , Lincs . |
| 3 | Clad in Bath stone , it is a rather stern house with an oriel window over the front door . |
| 4 | On 9 July , Sgt Smith and a colleague were in a dogfight with an enemy aircraft over the North Sea , south-east of Great Yarmouth . |
| 5 | Data derived from the aircraft 's onboard navigation and position fixing systems was downlinked to the CAA 's Air Traffic Control Evaluation Unit at Bournemouth-Hurn via an Inmarsat satellite over the North Atlantic and British Telecom 's ground earth receiving station at Goonhilly . |
| 6 | When Liz 's parents had both been tragically killed in an air crash over Paris Liz — an eleven-year-old orphan — had come to live with Laura and her parents in the old stone manor house , part of a large estate which had been in the Harding family for generations . |
| 7 | WORRIED John Major called in an election expert over fears for his majority , it was revealed last night . |
| 8 | RESIDENTS in Billingham were warned today of the possibility of increased background noise from an ICI plant over the next few weeks . |
| 9 | ‘ At least it 's made in the genuine outdoor manner with the billy of water suspended from an iron bar over the flames . |
| 10 | It is indicative of the pressure to conform to gender-coded standards that The Dear Deceit , the most serious and most personal of her first four novels , has as its protagonist a lone male suffering from an identity crisis over his patronym . |
| 11 | There they were in 1934 hatching plans for invading Russia but allowing one of their army chiefs — ‘ a typical monocled , duel-scarred , square-headed general of the High Command ’ — to reveal the lot to an RAF veteran over lunch at a plush Berlin restaurant . |
| 12 | The weather , geography , altitude , geology and the vegetation of both the surrounding land and wet environment have all attributed to an animals evolution over thousands of year . |
| 13 | It is now possible to study not only the direction but also the rate of shell evolution at an interspecies level over the entire history of the Earth ! |
| 14 | The explosions in March and April of 1969 at an electricity sub station in Castlereagh and at the Silent Valley reservoir in the Mournes were followed by an explosion at an electricity sub-station over the border in County Donegal . |
| 15 | nodded but looked at an apple tree over the hedge . |