Example sentences of "over a [noun sg] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have taken to colour like a new lover , ’ he pronounced unconvincingly over a cappuccino in the sparse urban palazzo that doubles as his office and town house . |
| 2 | Meirion Rowlands , one of the Ashleys ' most key appointments of this time , was well known as the local prizewinning sheep shearer ; he met Bernard over a pint in the pub . |
| 3 | At the time when the Home Support Project first collected information about them , the majority got some informal care at least four days a week , ( three-quarters in the Ipswich control group and the Newham action group , two-thirds in the Ipswich action group and just over a half in the Newham control group ) . |
| 4 | It is now in a ruinous condition but has the distinction of being the oldest existing railway bridge over a river in the world . |
| 5 | THE Manchester United footballer Viv Anderson was given a public apology and undisclosed libel damages in the High Court yesterday over a story in the Daily Star concerning a post-match clash between Anderson and the Wimbledon player John Fashanu . |
| 6 | There had been a staggering decrease in difficulty over a century in the largest Swedish daily , Dagens Nyheter , which roughly corresponded to the difference between children 's books and adult literature . |
| 7 | Investment was low , interest rates rose , there was concern over a fall in the population level from its 1974 peak of 62 million , and there were calls to cut back on the high social welfare spending built up by the SPD governments . |
| 8 | There is also an a la carte restaurant , a popular bar , a sunbathing terrace , a small TV lounge and a cafe terrace which is ideal for lingering over a drink in the sunshine . |
| 9 | Business has to be discussed over a drink in the pub , with food quickly snatched at the bar , or an even more hurried lunch grabbed at your desk between meetings . |
| 10 | Coffin and Inspector Paul Lane were talking privately over a drink in the Victory Arms , a pub whose windows gave them a view of the sails of the Cutty Sark . |
| 11 | The PDS emphasized concern over a deterioration in the comprehensive social protection currently offered by the East German state . |
| 12 | It was nine by the church clock and another clock over a bank in the town hammered out the strokes . |
| 13 | Petrol prices are set to go up again ; traders in the world oil market still worrying over a war in the Gulf , today pushed their prices to their highest for ten years , at more than forty dollars a barrel . |
| 14 | There was a row over a kettle in the communications room at Alfreton in Amber Valley , to which my hon. Friend the Member for Amber Valley drew attention . |
| 15 | It was almost a door and looked out on to a long paved garden bordered with box hedges and there was an inviting looking higher hedge at the bottom with an arch of greenery over a gap in the middle . |
| 16 | One MP was sued for alleged libel in June 1978 over a jibe in the supporters . |