Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In so doing the newcomers have contributed to the sense of urban encroachment on rural political affairs among farmers and landowners which goes back over a much longer period , and which has been associated with changes in the institutions of political control in the countryside : the gradual decline in the personalized and autocratic power of the locally resident squirearchy and the transfer of public administration to a more formal and impersonal framework of local government since local politics were first placed on a democratic footing in 1888 . |
| 2 | Secret talks with the government , which went on over a period of more than a year , were also broken off . |
| 3 | We broke up over a personal misunderstanding . |
| 4 | And er we fell out over a fall really or whatever it was . |
| 5 | We looked out over a bare open landscape , its thin grass patched with sandy stretches . |
| 6 | They wash out over a number of shampoos . |
| 7 | They went on over a long period and affected many children who had been entrusted to the defendants for care and help . |
| 8 | From the platform he looks out over a sea of clowns of all shapes and sizes filling the incongruously named Place St Maur des Fosses on the seafront at Bognor Regis . |
| 9 | Surrounded by coconut groves , it looks out over a large , open-air swimming pool onto an excellent sandy beach and the sea beyond . |
| 10 | It looks out over a peaceful rural landscape . |
| 11 | Tomorrow night we 'll show exclusive pictures of the MG RV8 on the road and ask why Rover is to bring back the car it killed off over a decade ago . |
| 12 | It looked out over a garden so long overgrown it was returning to jungle . |
| 13 | You 've got ta put an offer in and pay it so much a month have n't you or something and , and , and get it paid off over a period of time ? |