Example sentences of "[pron] over a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My own father , ’ Francis continued , ‘ failed in business and drove himself over a cliff in full view of us all , five years ago . |
| 2 | There are relevant stair er Chairman which you can look out of place at the present moment of time but they will need to be addressed at some point in time in the future and therefore one could be forgiven for wanting to prioritise various but in general terms , the strategy that has been er looked at is the progress of St Albans in general , there may be small elements of it and some of these have already touched upon but in general that is no sound strategy er which over a period of time and in the process of that it will be essential to monitor erm the effect of some of the changes as you go forward to see in fact whether the other elements of strategy that were erm put in to that er work were in fact still necessary and whether they should be have some . |
| 3 | from our point of view in nineteen ninety three , we have to deal with somebody over a revision of the rent and if the company does n't exist it makes it very difficult ! |
| 4 | But all our speakers are chosen by the Pre-retirement Council and by your employers by the way who over a period of time have selected the Oh well we do n't want him again or that firm again . |
| 5 | Tt I was meant to bring you over a couple of chocolate biscuits and fifty pence for you to give to Craig cos he 's bound to want something . |
| 6 | ‘ FLIGHT TO FREEDOM ’ read the headline of one over a picture of the unusual sight of a golden eagle flying over Regent 's Park . |
| 7 | Consequently his wife has been left to fend for herself over a variety of matters . |
| 8 | ‘ If you English tourists get too powerful around here , ’ he told me over a glass of grappa , and with a particularly charming smile , ‘ I think I can remember where the old machine-guns are buried . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ George read me over a list of CIA personnel who were in London in the late Sixties — ’ |
| 10 | As the saying goes ‘ we clicked ’ and thus began a friendship and correspondence between Ella Shields and me over a period of years until her death in 1952 . |
| 11 | I knew him over a period of about two years before he died . |
| 12 | If we , if we decide what it is we want to look at and there is a consensus on that and then you look at it over a period of time and see , and see what 's revealed by it . |
| 13 | By putting a premium on the use of it , then presumably , there are going to be fewer people who are going to use it over a period of time . |
| 14 | Mm no he 's had it over a period of time , we think it may be hereditary cos his father had some back trouble too when he was alive |
| 15 | Chuck us over a packet of crisps will you ? |