Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun pl] over their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Bryan told the insurance industry yesterday that commissions should be related to the long-term maintenance of policies over their full lifetime , rather than paid out as a lump sum immediately a policy was sold . |
| 2 | They were then smuggled out of the building in a police decoy operation , being driven away in unmarked cars with blankets over their heads . |
| 3 | Elsewhere , Midland Bank reported profits much in line with expectations , helping the shares to a 4 pence rise to 351 pence , while Courtald lost 5 pence to 377 pence on concerns over their proposed textile de-merger plans . |
| 4 | BEHIND the war of words over their respective performances , there is good news for all three ferry operators on the Ulster-Scotland sea-route . |
| 5 | In open-ended stalls , the sows are kept in place by chains over their necks or bodies . |
| 6 | He 'd seen women in his boyhood with shawls over their heads and bare feet , with the same air of ancient breeding . |
| 7 | Although the thunder and lightning had moved further off the horses were still in a very nervous state when the roar of flames over their heads drove them wild so that they were very difficult to handle . |
| 8 | The teachers said that ghosts looked like people with bed-sheets over their heads , and that witches all had cats and flew about on broomsticks . |
| 9 | PROTECTION officers face the jibes of colleagues over their ‘ flunkey ’ duties for VIPs . |
| 10 | Pattern-notes ( sometimes called " mind-maps " ) can fulfil many of your basic requirements of analytical note-making and they have a number of advantages over their over-used linear equivalent . |
| 11 | But then again , a penetrating light : a group of young men with carbines over their shoulders marching through the foothills of Mount Lebanon . |