Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Travel agents say they 've sold out of foreign holidays as thousands head for the sun over the Easter Bank holiday . |
| 2 | The PFL had voted against the government over pensions , despite being the leading pro-government party in Congress . |
| 3 | It was left to the Glasgow Hillhead MP , George Galloway , at a Scotland United fringe meeting to dissent with the euphoria over the severed links to the Scottish National Party and to question the leadership strategy . |
| 4 | Erm , the other thing is that in the Nuffield erm it sometimes er er in the , in the book er list , and sometimes it 's in the photocopy books , so you have to check both and if it 's a book that 's been erm not come into the library over the last fourteen months you 've er , you also need to check the erm Von Ryan catalogue . |
| 5 | They wore their Sunday black and were climbing along the path over the hill , girding it as if with an emblematic mourning ribbon . |
| 6 | The arguments over the significance of organic relationships that we normally associate with the debate over Darwin 's Origin of Species were being fought out in the natural-history museums and anatomy schools just when Darwin himself was first beginning to develop his evolutionary theory in the late 1830s . |
| 7 | But if you think this is bloody " — and he laughed his hacking tubercular laugh " our ancestors would n't think of going to sea in a new prahu which had n't first been rolled into the water over the living bodies of seven women in their first pregnancy ! |
| 8 | The general procedure , however , is to work with the dog over a period of time , ensuring a non-conflict situation so as to overcome its fears . |
| 9 | Weathermen predict no more snow will fall in the region over the coming days . |
| 10 | He said to protesters : ‘ I think the Timex situation is an indication of what has been happening in the country over the last 10 to 15 years . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I may is well place before the dog over there the message of God as before those hungry millions who have no lustre in their eyes and whose only God is their bread . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ But if you 're interested in the old days , you ought to ask the man who lives in the house over there . |
| 13 | One has to specify what class of possible curved spaces should be included in the sum over histories . |
| 14 | Lastly , the effect of EC legislation has been considered in the battle over Sunday trading . |
| 15 | She did not want to look at him , and crossed to stand before the mantel over the fireplace , gazing down into the empty grate . |
| 16 | Editor , — It is unfortunate that Gary P Bray adds to the confusion over deaths from paracetamol overdose by an apparent failure to recognise the difference between the cause of death and a coroner 's verdict as to its motivation . |
| 17 | It crashed into the peak and flipped over , although the tail section is recognisable , wreckage is scattered down the hill over a wide area . |
| 18 | I seem to remember an American thesis writer who crashed to the ground over this contorted problem , and I am sure that both Worsley and Sir John Summerson ( who contributes an elegant introduction to Mansbridge 's book ) would concur that mystery still surrounds the problem of Nash the draughtsman . |
| 19 | Much has been added to the house over the years and today , with its elegant 18th-century front rooms , there is little to remind one of its humble beginnings . |
| 20 | I 'm just going to comment on the lady over there . |
| 21 | Mrs Reveley said : ‘ Nobody else has ever sat on the horse over jumps . |
| 22 | Calculations based on this assumption , however , indicated that any uplift would be confined to the region over which stretching occurs and that no uplift at all would occur if the thickness of the crust were less than about 20 per cent of the thickness of the lithosphere . |
| 23 | The Circular 's report of the NAPSS meeting in Edinburgh referred to the confusion over the " class " of the women to be introduced , noting that Miss Parkes had actually said " lower-class " . |
| 24 | The 1991 accounts were not qualified by Touche Ross , and as Review Panel procedures dictate , the firm was reported to the Institute over the affair . |
| 25 | One has only to stand on the bridge over the Trannon at Trefeglwys and look upstream to see the stable narrow river coursing elegantly between its magnificent borders of ash and sycamore , and compare this with the immediate downstream reach , which wanders amidst a waste of gravel . |
| 26 | She stopped at the bridge over the estuary and watched the sea birds swoop over mud , chocolate-brown with slabs of black sheen like coal . |
| 27 | He looks at the window over Tite 's shoulder and says something like : ‘ Oh … early days yet . ’ |
| 28 | This chapter looks at the debate over aggregate demand . |
| 29 | So far we 've looked at the news over the past ten years . |
| 30 | Controversy erupted at the time over alleged juggling with export restrictions by Culture Minister Jack Lang and allegations were made about collusion between private art dealing and the State . |