Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun] over his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Applying his make-up was the hardest thing she 'd ever done , her hands shaking as she smoothed a base coat over his skin . |
| 2 | However , the prospect of Labour 's fourth defeat in a row since 1979 will place a question mark over his leadership and Labour 's longer-term future . |
| 3 | It was his eighth goal in 10 games of a season in which he has been badly affected by injury and left out of Taylor 's plans because of a question mark over his match-fitness . |
| 4 | Arctic Call is often let down by his jumping and with a question mark over his race fitness I prefer BELMOUNT CAPTAIN . |
| 5 | That raises a question mark over his availability for England 's opening international of the season against Spain on September 9 . |
| 6 | Adrian Blackman is a worker and a trier , of whom no one could ask more , but there has always been a question mark over his speed and flexibility . |
| 7 | He says obviously there 's now a question mark over his future . |
| 8 | Danny Quinn was substituted against Dublin after twenty minutes and there must be a question mark over his participation in the final with Fergal McCusker and Karl Diamond both pressing for places . |
| 9 | The confessions add considerably to de Benedetti 's embarrassments , because he is already relying on the labyrinthine Italian judicial system of appeals , and the country 's statute of limitations to avoid the possibility of a jail sentence over his - fairly tenuous — involvement in the Banco Ambrosiano collapse . |
| 10 | Pc Dines suffered bruises to his face and forehead and a two-inch gash over his eye which needed five stitches . |
| 11 | In his laboratory ( evoked with a delightful jumble of esoteric clutter in Anthony Ward 's design ) , Sir Nicholas Gimcrack gives madmen transfusions of sheep 's blood , rejoices like a wine connoisseur over his collection of bottled air and , most ludicrously of all , learns to swim by imitating a frog in a jam-jar suspended in front of his nose . |
| 12 | They made him strip , put a plastic bag over his head and then poured petrol over him . |
| 13 | His opposite number , St Boniface , is equally finely bedecked , but is given the dignity of a plaster mask over his skull . |
| 14 | Soon after the ceremony he went to Glasgow , where he fell ill with what would seem to have been smallpox , and from vanity kept a taffeta mask over his face . |
| 15 | Bellybutton , a straw hat over his eyes , danced a few ludicrous steps on the deck of the workboat , thus looking for all the world like a simple Bahamian native welcoming the nice white folks from Georgia who now stood blinking in the bright sunlight beside a growing mound of their designer-label luggage . |
| 16 | He and his wife remember with pleasure one young man who spent a particularly fine Sunday afternoon reclining in a deckchair with a straw hat over his eyes . |
| 17 | They found Googol tied up securely in the Emerald Suite with a leather hood over his head . |
| 18 | A girl from a neighbouring school came to the victim 's aid by throwing a bucket of water from a flower stall over his assailants . |
| 19 | When he came back into the doorway of the room where she waited , he had a duffle coat over his arm , and was carrying a folding garden-bed with a rigid aluminium frame and a patterned canvas cover printed with brilliant sunflowers . |
| 20 | CONCERN is growing for a fifteen-year-old boy who went missing from home following a family dispute over his suspension from school . |
| 21 | Corbett felt his head and neck tense as if someone had slipped an iron helm over his hair . |
| 22 | It is indicative of the pressure to conform to gender-coded standards that The Dear Deceit , the most serious and most personal of her first four novels , has as its protagonist a lone male suffering from an identity crisis over his patronym . |