Example sentences of "[vb pp] over a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having gingerly discarded over a hedge bits of rotted fruit and suspect cheese , I lunched on olives and mineral water in the shade of a great oak wood . |
| 2 | ‘ One telephone call which could easily have been faked from any phone box , a letter which no one outside the family has seen , and a pay-off which will supposedly take place once arrangements have been made over a telephone number they refuse to disclose . |
| 3 | No decision has been made over a youth coach , a position Hankin held before his sudden promotion to the manager 's office . |
| 4 | His gaunt son , who could not have been older than 12 , stood slumped over a hunting rifle , gazing at the plumes of smoke rising from the green expanse which runs along the fringes of Sarajevo 's old quarter . |
| 5 | As they set up the now empty suit with its back to the door , half slumped over a control panel , he settled down behind the curtained entrance of the showers . |
| 6 | In minutes , the computer will produce 18 columns of net and discounted cash flows presented over a set period of time . |
| 7 | This can then be searched over a Local Area Network by up to 25 users simultaneously , a speed performance ten times better than the best CD-ROM can normally offer . |
| 8 | He was drawn over a gravel bed and used a loaded waggler float with double white maggot hookbait . |
| 9 | A bridging unit could also be used over a dressing table , with a mirror on the wall behind . |
| 10 | Woks are best used over a gas flame . |
| 11 | Loved so much that when he died , his ashes , on his special instruction , were sprinkled over a rose bush he had planted in her memory at a crematorium . |
| 12 | But as I was coming up to London to work in more formal circumstances I selected my new skirt , which is somewhat smoother and less worn , together with my new pullover — oh , no , how odd , this is my old pullover — but — ah , now I remember , yes , worn over a cotton shirt — which again is something smooth . |
| 13 | This must be equal to the integral over the surface were v is the velocity and — the density ; n is the outward normal to the surface S which enclosed V. By Gauss 's theorem we may write and hence Since this must be true for any volume element we have the equation of continuity The conservation of momentum in continuum mechanics relates the rate of change of the momentum integrated over a volume V to the resultant of the forces on that volume . |
| 14 | It seems that the arousing properties of a context will be re-established over a retention interval and will boost the frequency of occurrence of an habituated response that is otherwise unlikely to occur . |
| 15 | Throughout the period of the civil war and Interregnum , successive parliamentary and military regimes presided over a church establishment which remained staunchly Calvinist in outlook , and accepted the full , literal interpretation of the doctrine of predestination . |
| 16 | The fifth Northern Ireland Export Awards Competition reached its climax when Mr. Sam Torrens , Chief Executive , Northern Bank , presided over a presentation luncheon at Belfast 's Culloden Hotel . |
| 17 | If a piece of ordinary glass is heated over a gas flame , it softens easily , and eventually the heated part will gather itself into a drop and fall to the ground . |
| 18 | The backdrop is the controversial ‘ SS ’ logo painted over a prison wall on which 500 years are marked off . |
| 19 | He knows that a profitable deal can just as easily be struck over a caesar salad and glass of mineral water as over a T-bone steak and bottle of vintage claret . |
| 20 | A radar pulse scattered back by the planet is spread over a distance range which exceeds that of the transmitted pulse by an amount equal to the radius of the planet . |
| 21 | The second example comes from the growth of EPoSS ( Electronic Point of Sale Scanning ) in retailing , in other words the increasingly common barcode which is passed over a scanning device linked to the cash register . |
| 22 | Savery-Gilliard bougies or Eder-Puestow metal olives of increasing size were passed over a guide wire which had been positioned with the help of a fibreoptic endoscope . |
| 23 | Father Crispin had unfortunately just knocked over a wine cup and was cleaning up the mess with a napkin . |
| 24 | Now suppose that the strength acquired by A tends , for some reason , to be lost over a retention interval whereas that controlled by X is retained . |
| 25 | The sign , in faded letters , was suspended over a shop window cluttered with a dusty , neglected display of sickroom adjuncts and toilet articles along with dummy boxes and bottles and tins advertising baby foods and patent medicines . |
| 26 | On May 22 the Deputy Speaker , Kalonzo Musyoka , was imprisoned over a land sale scandal . |
| 27 | ‘ What 's up ? ’ he asked Salome Search , who was draped over a sofa doing Mrs. Siddons impressions . |
| 28 | The intense heat of being held over a gas jet will cause immediate and permanent discolouring . |
| 29 | Called ‘ hot black ’ , it consisted of a stick of black greasepaint of which a small spoonful was held over a lit candle ; when it was melted , blobs of the hot grease would be put on each eyelash with a hairpin . |