Example sentences of "over a [noun sg] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a long silence , such as falls over a saloon bar in a Western at moments of confrontation . |
| 2 | For instance when in a dream she was conducted by me over a market garden in Aegina , one could guess that she had been reading Angus Wilson 's The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot , in which a market garden figures ; or when I dreamed of a detective novel by her , with a detective bearing her own name and very uncharacteristically dressed there were signs of my addiction to the detective novels of Gladys Mitchell . |
| 3 | He 'd had trouble over a dock strike in France , and had some perishable cargoes which he could n't deliver . |
| 4 | Noel Edmonds presides over a launch party in London , but the demo machine does n't function all that well . |
| 5 | He established territory over a cave roof in the middle of the tank and proceeded to carry out a reign of terror that had the other residents hugging the ends of the tank in various stages of nervous collapse . |