Example sentences of "over the [noun pl] [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | His head was still chewing over the problems he had discussed with his young students at the polytechnic . |
| 3 | They were reminiscing over the times they had worked together , and this she found irritating . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ( 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 . ) |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I am not you , so it 's best that you decide ; but we could talk over the options you have . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I get on better on my own , ’ he said to his mother , looking over the leaflets he 'd picked up . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | That she writes boldly to Artemisia concerning her frustration , and more timorously to Lucinda , suggests partly a lingering ambivalence over the choices she has made , and , more proximately , a nervousness as she approached the literary world . |
| 13 | Red Deer ( Cervus elaphus ) are really forest animals , but over the centuries we have destroyed Scotland 's natural woodlands and driven the deer to live in the harsh environments of the higher , exposed hills . |
| 14 | To return to the source of good , evil and neutral ; whatever , in the conflicts referred to , may have been the intentions or hopes of the protagonists , the fact remains that over the centuries they have produced a constant flow of individual human decisions which can be examined and specified as either good , evil or neutral . |
| 15 | Then a series of colours that took my fancy were thinned down with water and sprayed , or rather spattered using a mouth diffuser , over the colours I have previously applied . |
| 16 | Since construction has already been covered in Section 2 , this section is limited largely to ‘ internal ’ interpretation and the cases regularly cited as instances in which the testator 's intention triumphed over the words he had used . |
| 17 | However , over the months I have been looking I have become increasing frustrated over the issue of VAT . |
| 18 | There was a long pause while she cleared the bed of her things , and she was aware of his eyes on her every movement as he checked over the items she 'd packed for any signs of decadence . |
| 19 | He watched in anxious silence as I ran a hand over the repairs he had begun on Masquerade . |
| 20 | Few things are more poignant than a holiday romance , and we 're very happy to say that over the years we 've brought more than a few couples together who are now living happily every after . |
| 21 | Over the years we 've enjoyed annual family holidays without feeling the pinch and we 've built up good relationships with our neighbours and the surrounding community . |
| 22 | ‘ In the early days we worried a bit about comeback , but over the years we 've just got more outrageous , ’ he says . |
| 23 | And er over the years we 've built up a reputation I know is is a genuine one say that because I know that you 're going to appreciate this course and I use the term very very particularly you will enjoy it . |
| 24 | Of course , over the years we 've campaigned , as I was telling someone only yesterday in another club that I go to at the church , that I said you know we , the Co-op Womens ' Guild , were helping to put water into Africa before any of this Band-aid and Live-aid was thought about . |
| 25 | The best of british waterski-ing is on show this weekend at Kirtons Farm just off the M4 … over the years we 've produced 5 world records … 6 world champions … 8 european records … 55 european champions and 21 team golds … some success story which should continue in the masters competition which takes off tomorrow and reaches the finals on sunday afternoon … |
| 26 | yeah and it 's a public relations exercise , and we 've been lumbered with it you know over the years we 've tried to push crime prevention and people come in and they do take notes of various things you know there 's obviously some people who come in and talk about crime prevention which we can answer fully , there are other enquiries about everything from bloody |
| 27 | You know this sort of thing and all British wildlife has got its own little characters , every species is different er and you know thousands of animals we 've taken in over the years we 've just learnt different things about different animals that suit different animals . |
| 28 | Over the years we had often talked about Elsie and Simon and Elsie 's sudden departure but my mother had never mentioned this most important fact . |
| 29 | Over the years we had become so attached to Renishaw Road that our new , smaller house in Thorne Road seemed cold and indifferent to our worries . |
| 30 | If they are ill they get good doctors , if there is a divorce … over the years we have worked and experimented to discover new things and remember old ones . |