Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun sg] over [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He turned defence over Scotland into attack .
2 She crashed through a tinsel and spray-snow Christmas decoration and , curled up tight , turned head over end through the air , landing neatly on her feet in the street .
3 The committee expressed concern over loss of public access as Forestry Commission woodland was sold off , and said that as a first step , all existing rights of way should be maintained .
4 This in particular ( i ) warned that it was essential that the additional demands on resources associated with reconstruction in the Middle East , unification in Germany , the economic transformation of eastern Europe and prospects for reform in the Soviet Union should be met by reductions in the absorption of saving by governments and an increase in private saving , and that an important contribution could be made by " reassessing spending on defence and subsidies " ; ( ii ) expressed concern over delays in the Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations [ see this page ] ; ( iii ) welcomed the continuing commitment of eastern European countries to stabilizing and reforming their economies along market-oriented lines in spite of the added difficulties caused by the collapse of trade in the former COMECON area ; and ( iv ) also welcomed the intention of the authorities in the Soviet Union to " intensify reliance on market mechanisms and to integrate the economy into the multilateral trade and payments system " .
5 The IMF 's own financial problems were highlighted by its Interim Committee which , after a meeting on Sept. 20-21 , expressed concern over delays in US contributions worth US$12,000 million .
6 ZEPPELINS of World War One by Wilbur Cross , tells of the little-known aerial battles that took place over England during the Great War , when Germany attempted to paralyse the British by dropping tons of bombs from a fleet of super-Zeppelins .
7 I was only 14 when I first fell head over heels for Don .
8 They fell head over heels in love and my real Mother returned .
9 It was n't just the usual liaison : the two of them fell head over heels in love .
10 With Keith , I fell head over heels in love with him from the first time we met , and I 'd only been going out with him two weeks and he asked me to get engaged .
11 We met , fell head over heels in love in a shockingly short time , and were still in love thirty years later when he died . ’
12 Fixed-term stock did imply that the national debt would have to be repaid , one day , but for most of the eighteenth century control of the cost took priority over reduction of the principal .
13 In China the position was normally the reverse ; family and lineage took precedence over duty to the ruler .
14 Shoes spun end over end in vague orbits about their owners .
15 COLCHESTER & East Essex earned revenge over Maldon in yesterday 's NCA Abbot Ale Cup second round tie .
16 and had control over Mrs with his stupid maid , whereas it 's sort of reversed , cos she has power over him cos she brings out character .
17 ( The presumption that the owner had control over items on the land would , however , be rebutted where a third party had hidden drugs or explosives on the land . )
18 For a time the Macedonian ruler Samuilo held power over parts of Bosnia-Hercegovina until he was defeated by the Byzantine emperor Basil in 1014 .
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