Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he walked deeper into the trees as the twilight thickened around him and the stars began appearing among the branches over his head . |
| 2 | The following chapter looks at the debates over permissiveness in more detail , by examining the preoccupations of the moral entrepreneurs of the period , and in particular , Mary Whitehouse and the National Viewers ' and Listeners ' Association . |
| 3 | Planks laid over the flattened rushes restrict your movements to a great extent , for any small , sudden movement is greatly exaggerated by the planks over the unstable , boggy ground . |
| 4 | What do you feel about the developments over the last er few days , are you rejoicing at them ? |
| 5 | In this case , the cursor can be moved between the fields over the page using the appropriate special function keys ( TAB , BACKSPACE etc ) . |
| 6 | They would unite with the workers over their struggle for economic improvements only so that ‘ by smuggling in the Marxian doctrine , [ they could ] transform it into the ideological struggle of classes . ’ |
| 7 | The fourteen-gallon tank had been about one quarter full of fuel , and both it and a second partially-filled tank were each found to contain over a quarter of a pint of water , the result of condensation forming in the tanks over a six-day period . |
| 8 | Propellers over Warwick by M J Evans is a small , but nevertheless interesting , booklet on the four generations of aircraft seen in the skies over Warwickshire . |
| 9 | according to the newspapers over here Frank had an excellent game and he was furious after loosing 2–0 . |
| 10 | But relations between the two clubs have remained good and two Derry players , Jonathan Speak and Gregory Kearney , have moved to the Showgrounds over the past year . |
| 11 | It was a bitterly cold evening but the warmth of the greetings she received on the streets over the next few days made up for it . |
| 12 | These new men have made me see form , have made me more conscious of the sky where it juts down between houses , of the bright patterns of sunlight which the bath water throws up on the ceiling , of the great ‘ Vs ’ of light that dart through the chinks over the curtain rings , all these are new chords , new keys of design . |
| 13 | This register of letters deals with the transactions over the imperial question and contains copies of some incoming letters ( including the above ) as well as the highly secret ones being sent out . |
| 14 | Even assaults on the Unionists over alleged cases of discrimination could rebound . |
| 15 | Look at the potatoes over there ! |
| 16 | this company moves at such a rapid rate of knots that I have a meeting tomorrow morning with the Managing Director Building and Property Development at his house in Pitlochrie which is the only time he 's literally coming back to change his shirt before he goes wandering round the world again so the only way I can get him is to go up and stay with the in-laws over night and see him at breakfast time tomorrow . |
| 17 | But as they checked their tiny forces — a hundred or so ashore — the first German Stosstruppen , Thrust Troops , were moving into the docks over the bridges of the submarines ' basin 's southern lock ( 'D' ) at 0150 hours . |
| 18 | At the same time his pathological detestation of ‘ popery ’ guaranteed that he would vote with the Whigs over great questions of policy , such as the Hanoverian succession and the war with France . |
| 19 | Three days later , on 23rd. , the Stukas returned to the skies over Malta , and on this occasion the defences were able to engage them without undue fighter interference , although Plt.Off . |
| 20 | More detailed instructions will be found taped on the walls over the appliances concerned . |
| 21 | HONG Kong will not buckle at the knees over disagreements with China , its governor Chris Patten vowed yesterday . |
| 22 | HONG Kong will not buckle at the knees over disagreements with China , its governor Chris Patten vowed yesterday . |
| 23 | In that year the Cohen Committee succinctly explained how this state of affairs had come about : ‘ [ t ] he illusory nature of the control theoretically exercised by the shareholders over directors has been accentuated by the dispersion of capital among an increasing number of small shareholders who pay little attention to their investments so long as satisfactory dividends are forthcoming , who lack sufficient time , money and experience to make full use of their rights as occasion arises and who are , in many cases , too numerous and too widely dispersed to be able to organise themselves ’ . |
| 24 | The Temple of Luxor , with its distinctive columns shaped like bundles of papyrus , overlooks the tree-lined waterfront of the Nile ; close by is the massive complex of Karnak , the largest place of worship known to man , an intricate combination of ram-headed sphinxes , labyrinth passageways and chambers , whose detail has hardly been affected by the elements over thousands of years . |
| 25 | But now I was up in the air , and what with the clouds , I lost all my orientation Where the clouds parted , I could see the whole tube , land all around me , and it seemed to go up like a tower , so the town and the factory belt and the parks were hanging from the walls over my head , they were all going to crash down on me , and the city on top of them . |
| 26 | ( After all the voices of male apprentices are not usually heard in the debates over apprenticeship . ) |
| 27 | His father quarrelled with the Colonels over some detail of graft . |
| 28 | It was not the last argument he would have with the authorities over pay , though this was the only series he missed for that reason . |
| 29 | As I scrubbed away at my remaining teeth I reflected upon the number of obituaries of men in their early sixties which I 'd read in The Times over the course of the past few weeks , and I wondered whether the Great Reaper was running a special line in the age group for some divine , mysterious end , and if so , I thought , I might be next , and then they 'd be sorry . |
| 30 | A few days more and the man 's body would have been buried completely — another name to add to the list of 12 who have disappeared in the Gredos over the past two years . |