Example sentences of "[vb pp] with [adj] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | His hand moved with agonising slowness over the silken skin of her thigh and the breath caught in her throat , everything within her willing his hand to move closer and closer still to the very centre of her need for him . |
| 2 | Direct regulation of pollution has met with mixed success over the last 25 years . |
| 3 | Darlington council has had to wait while negotiations have been completed with British Rail over the site ownership . |
| 4 | We observed a twofold to fivefold stimulation of proliferation of Schwann cells treated with recombinant materials over background activity present in mock-transfected host cells ( Table 2 ) . |
| 5 | We were however rewarded with spectacular views over the extensive harbour . |
| 6 | Opening the parliament on Nov. 19 , 1990 , Masire expressed concern that the High Court was flooded with legal complaints over the conduct of the 1989 general election . |
| 7 | In the manner of the old Nawabs he was fun-loving and gregarious , and presided with majestic insouciance over the Rampur palace and its priceless contents — subject of a long-standing family dispute . |
| 8 | This is linked with particular concern over toxocariasis , since this disease can cause blindness in children . |
| 9 | For a second Lindsey stood unmoving as Niall 's gaze swept with slow appreciation over her body , taking in every curve which , she realised , blushing hotly , must be emphasised beneath the damp robe . |
| 10 | These marquees , lined with blue awnings over blue carpeting , were arranged regimentally on either side of grassy alleys that were already adorned with banks of flowers . |
| 11 | Not long after the sun had creaked with watery weariness over the yardarm a man of the country ambled into the police station . |
| 12 | Many have been constructed with just polythene over hardcore when the building inspector was n't about , but either way , when probing with a garden fork of thin steel rod , you probably wo n't be able to penetrate deeper than about 200mm . |
| 13 | In August 1916 , a car of this class was fitted with large hoops over the ends of the upper deck to protect passengers from being struck by the trolley pole when being turned in the blackout or from a broken spring . |
| 14 | These irregularities have been determined with great precision over recent years through the very accurate measurement of deviations in the orbits of artificial satellites . |
| 15 | We can not do this overnight , but it can be achieved with gradual development over a number of years . |