Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun prp] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm playing the evil Red Queen in a play about Snow White over the Christmas Season . |
| 2 | THREE people were rescued from a yacht which got into difficulties in heavy seas off Bardsey Island over the weekend . |
| 3 | But it certainly was not all rest and relaxation for Courtney Walsh over the winter . |
| 4 | A better memorial to him is the statue of Cardinal Wolsey over the gate to Christ Church College , Oxford , which he caused to be erected and underneath which he is named in a Latin inscription . |
| 5 | Mr Lutz Stavenhagen said that he expected 11 out of the 12 EC leaders in Strasbourg to endorse the proposal — a reference to the renewed isolation of Mrs Thatcher over the issue . |
| 6 | Alfred Gomolka ( CDU ) resigned on March 16 as Minister President of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania over the privatization of the five main shipyards in the region . |
| 7 | The Legend also proclaimed that Constantine had recognized the unique spiritual status of the Roman see , confirming the primacy of Rome and of the see of St Peter over the four patriarchates of Antioch , Constantinople , Alexandria and Jerusalem . |
| 8 | The objective in 1993 is to make our budget , which is achievable providing we stop scoring own goals as we have done in th Northern Area of Wimpey Asphalt and the Eastern Area of Wimpey Hobbs over the last two years . |
| 9 | I think the preamble the the the explanary explanatory text er with little two er indicates that really we are trying to address er erm a Greater York er dimension , that we are looking at a proposal er which meets the er development needs erm of Greater York over the period er that the contribution should be made through the new settlement . |
| 10 | In any case , with the dismissal of the ecologist Jose Lutzenberger as Minister of Environment just before the summit and with the hesitations of George Bush over the electoral advantage to him of appearing here , it seems that the Earth Summit may not quite turn out to be the intended PR success for the western approach to planetary salvation . |
| 11 | The new Bishop also paid tribute to the Ministry of Bishop Harris over the past 14 years . |
| 12 | The lieutenant had then flown the banners of the king of France and the church of Le Puy over the barbican at Vic-de-Bigorre , and had refused to countenance Roger-Bernard 's protest on behalf of his sister-in-law . |
| 13 | A stone in Altarnun churchyard , carved when he was about fourteen , shows a dove flying into the sun 's rays and a head of John Wesley over the door of Altarnun 's Methodist Chapel was carved when he was eighteen . |
| 14 | Of all the campaigns Mrs Whitehouse has been involved in , one of the most contentious was the private prosecution of Michael Bogdanov over The Romans in Britain . |
| 15 | In August , for instance , the RTC filed a $400m claim against Arthur Andersen over the Benjamin Franklin Savings Association ( see ACCOUNTANCY , September , p 16 ) . |
| 16 | Maggie knew the source of her own fear : in her anger she had so nearly , so very nearly , launched herself into the air , growling a dragon 's fury , sparks flying not from her eyes but from her mouth , raining blows from above , hovering over the teacher like St Michael over the devil . |
| 17 | We have already noted the erotic fantasies of men like Jelinger Symons over the appearance and behaviour of the pit girls . |
| 18 | Surely Baldwin , whatever his desire earlier in the imbroglio , can not at this stage have wished to go back to the Cabinet on the following morning and announce that a wayward King , who had already compromised his position with most opinion both at home and in the Dominions , had suddenly changed his mind , at least temporarily , and , having attracted the maximum publicity to his preference for Mrs Simpson over the Throne , was now prepared to ditch her and try to pick up again the pieces of kingship . |
| 19 | I should mention that there are no complaints about the recent caravan rally in a field off Gubberford Lane over the May Day Bank Holiday ; I am simply seeking clarification of the regulations for future reference . |
| 20 | In his later life he wrestled , unsuccessfully , with the idea of a united field theory , and clashed with Niels Bohr over the scope and meaning of quantum mechanics . |
| 21 | Christopher Boyle and Darren Mills had struck a deal with David Hawthorne over the sale of t-shirts . |
| 22 | ‘ I had rather a rough passage with Canon Wheeler over the sermon , ’ she said , and explained . |
| 23 | Following months of negotiations [ see p. 38517 ] it was announced on Aug. 21 that agreement had been reached with South Africa over the administration of the Walvis Bay enclave . |
| 24 | This incident set the pattern for my relationship with Frank Dick over the ensuing seven years . |
| 25 | Mr Walpit was fighting with Mr Welt over the failure of his cage and Mr Crangle skipped happily around his desk . |
| 26 | Mr Kinnock also sprang a surprise by restoring Ms Clare Short to the front bench less than a year after she resigned as spokeswoman on Employment in an acrimonious row with Mr Kinnock over the party 's stance on the Prevention of Terrorism Act . |
| 27 | This had , and George Eliot knew it , little or even nothing to do with Christ 's injunctions to his followers , and certainly nothing at all to do with the Incarnation which was now being celebrated as the congregation sang " Unto us a Boy is Born " as Daniel at the white-draped altar , with its lovingly embroidered white cloth , watched with Mr Ellenby over the bread and wine . |
| 28 | ‘ If I had a dollar for every nurse in this hospital who 's been infatuated with Tom Russell over the past four years , I 'd be stinking rich too ! ’ |
| 29 | Law personally conducted the negotiations with Gardner Sinclair over the sale of the Observer and the Pall Mall Gazette in 1914 ; this negotiation also demonstrates that , as well as producing information and nursing editors , the party had to work hard to keep some of the newspapers in business . |
| 30 | Cecil was more concerned with policy than with party or personal ambition ; he parted company with Lloyd George over the League of Nations and post-war diplomacy ; once outside the government he manoeuvred with other discontented " outs " . |