Example sentences of "over the [noun] [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the weekend he has been at the Spring Thing folk festival at Darlington Arts Centre , where he has been selling home-made ear-rings and Asian crafts . |
| 2 | It does n't have to be written down ; if you agree to buy something over the phone you 've still formed a contract with the supplier . |
| 3 | It does n't have to be written down ; if you agree to buy something over the phone you 've still formed a contract with the supplier . |
| 4 | Yeah that 's a big and my and that stuck out the bucket like that , well going over the top we had a hood over the top tumbler to stop the flashing , so my father stopped , thinking that was a bit of wood and were gon na break the top of the tumbler , so he stop and out and scrubbed it and found that was this bone and I think if my memory serve me right that 's in the , the Fleet Museum now . |
| 5 | Over the top she had a jacket of the palest blue , and a brooch of seed pearls like a bunch of grapes . |
| 6 | His head was still chewing over the problems he had discussed with his young students at the polytechnic , but his feet — as though contemptuous of all such academic preoccupations — had taken him by chance to a long , shabby street of bow-fronted houses that had obviously known better days . |
| 7 | His head was still chewing over the problems he had discussed with his young students at the polytechnic . |
| 8 | They were reminiscing over the times they had worked together , and this she found irritating . |
| 9 | I thought back over the times I had watched the ploughing ; in late autumn at the potato harvest , and in the summer , slopping through the flooded paddy fields . |
| 10 | The inference that he did so by selling is supported by the incidental evidence of miracle-stories : one from St-Benoît-sur-Loire , for instance , recorded in the 870s , tells of two " comrades " ( compares ) at the monastery 's weekly market , who quarrelled over the 12d. they had made on their joint transactions ; another story of similar date from St-Hubert in the Ardennes has a peasant ( rusticus ) stating quite explicitly that he has come to an annual fair " to acquire the wherewithal to pay what I owe to my lord " . |
| 11 | Now the farmer and his wife had remained in the filed , laughing over the trick they had played on the tiger . |
| 12 | Home again , and alone , he rhapsodised over the scene he had witnessed . |
| 13 | Then , when the system tightened up and interest rates rose , the debtor nations wound up paying back vast sums over the odds they had borrowed at . |
| 14 | ‘ I tried to go over the fiction I 'd done , pull out the subtext and put it in a form that you could give to an audience at a world 's fair at the end of the century . |
| 15 | There were pauses , then he banged the keys plaintively , going over the passages he had n't been able to get right , then suddenly he put on a record of the Chopin and played along with it , always two or three notes behind . |
| 16 | She was not going to fall in love with him , but even as she said this vehemently to herself , Sara was afraid that she had already gone over the precipice she had been conscious of this morning . |
| 17 | He 'll soon get over the damage you 've done to his ego ! ’ |
| 18 | As Heather was not a boy this latter did not really concern us , although I thought I was sure Blessed St John wept with the little one over the circumcision he had , of course , had himself . |
| 19 | ( He achieved a great feat of maritime engineering by building ships on the Atlantic shore , transporting them bodily over the hills he had explored and sailing them off into the Pacific . ) |
| 20 | But over the year we 've drifted apart they had a family , we had a family |
| 21 | So that , when cornered , he admitted that over the year he had become affected by simple , inexplicable bouts of fear . |
| 22 | A royal source said : ‘ The duchess is extremely unhappy over the way she has been treated . |
| 23 | As you climb , the view back over the way you 've come opens up and the wild moorland and rolling downlands stretch into the distance . |
| 24 | Over the aeons they have become so thoroughly integrated into the cooperative unit that became the eukaryotic cell , that it has become almost impossible to detect the fact , if indeed it is a fact , that they were once separate bacteria . |
| 25 | ‘ I am not you , so it 's best that you decide ; but we could talk over the options you have . ’ |
| 26 | We regret the part we 'ave left , rather than rejoice over the part we 'ave preferred ! ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I get on better on my own , ’ he said to his mother , looking over the leaflets he 'd picked up . |
| 28 | Now if you just press the return key a couple of times right , and have a lot of actual and fitted , if you go into option three in the data post depression menu you will notice that the fit of our model is very very different right , so we are now getting a very very good correspondence between actual and fitted , notice that in our original model the thing started to break down at about nineteen thirty , right , just by allowing the intercept to vary , right , over the wartime we 've now got a much better fit throughout the whole period why is that the case ? |
| 29 | Erm , I was going to mention , as Rob has done the increase in new complaints , which I think is somewhat welcome erm , we 're still taking a long time from the averages over the last twelve months , I think that 's just reflecting being out some days over the ones you 've been talking about , er , we 're down on actual stage one equipments in the month erm , we 're not quite sure why that is , mm it 's just the way things have panned out . |
| 30 | I slid my eyes over the gent she had accessorising her . |