Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] over [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She held an old piece of cloth over them both to keep the rain off . |
| 2 | The plants here have a dense but high canopy of leaves over them during the summer ; so , apart from the odd shaft of sunlight , the conditions are overcast but not dark . |
| 3 | The thought sent a wave of depression over her . |
| 4 | ‘ I would like to think that any sort of physical abuse does n't go on any more , but this does not mean that people might not get a bucket of water over them sometimes . ’ |
| 5 | Obviously throwing a bucket of water over them is n't going to do a lot of good , so if there is a likelihood of it happening , you 'll need to be prepared . |
| 6 | A tall woman leaned from a balcony and emptied a bucket of water over them . |
| 7 | It was as if , said Callaghan , they had got bored with the subject , and suddenly ‘ chucked a bucket of whitewash over it . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ With moped racing you can pick up a 50cc for about £20 , almost literally throw a bucket of paint over it and you 're away . ’ |
| 9 | And each time you come to the exercise each time they says they say Here you are solve read through it with a bit of paper over it . |
| 10 | So I think there is a little bit of controversy over it . |
| 11 | Not that that in itself was a bad thing , she acknowledged — but she bitterly resented the fact that he , Adam Burns , should have that kind of influence over her . |
| 12 | ‘ Do you think that gives you some kind of hold over me ? |
| 13 | At that moment I did have some kind of advantage over him , because I knew a little more about some things than he did . |
| 14 | Even her father could n't exert that kind of power over her . |
| 15 | Mrs Hellyer only came once a week and though Dad did some of the housework , shuffling round in the mornings and yawning , almost everything had a skin of dust over it and smelt mouldy , like furniture stored in an attic . |
| 16 | you have like a scrag of material over it ? |
| 17 | ‘ Chuck a couple of buckets of water over him , we might be able to recognise what it is , ’ Yanto suggested . |
| 18 | Chucking buckets of water over them eh ? |
| 19 | I bloody have done years ago you chuck buckets of water over them . |
| 20 | Words and names , as we all know from everyday experience , possess magical power : naming and identifying experiences and things imposes some degree of control over them and gives at least the illusion of bringing them within our power . |
| 21 | She dragged herself to her feet , and felt the short cotton skirt fall into place over her smoldering hind-quarters . |
| 22 | People ask how can it be that Scotland 's relatively small , relatively low-key club set-up can produce teams that will fearlessly take on the best and nurture expectations of victory over them all until the final whistle . |
| 23 | So get it smooth , coat it with copper , polish that up a bit so it 's really nice and shiny and put a fine coating of silver over it |
| 24 | ‘ And that gives you some sort of hold over me ? ’ |
| 25 | You think I 'm trying to get you into bed so I can have some sort of hold over you . |
| 26 | Yeah , I think some people do n't want er , the fathers having any sort of rights over them , they do n't want the access er , to the children , so in a way , they prefer to go it alone . |
| 27 | ‘ I did n't do that to prove some sort of mastery over you , ’ he said evenly , and she drew in her breath sharply , wondering if he read her mind . |
| 28 | To prove that you had some sort of power over me ? ’ |
| 29 | She would have had a sort of power over him . |
| 30 | It made her feel as if he still had some sort of claim over her , and she really hated and resented that . |