Example sentences of "a [noun sg] over [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The official French champagne industry organisation and a representative champagne producer , Taittinger , had sought a High Court injunction banning Dr Guy Woodall and his partner , Mr Ray Bevan , from Leatherhead , Surrey , from using the name champagne pending a trial over their action . |
| 2 | The sight of any other teacher dripping with water and with a bucket over her head would have been an occasion for great mirth among the pupils , but absolutely nothing could diminish Miss Hardbroom 's power . |
| 3 | If you 're not beautiful in our image , then put a bucket over your head , or hide at home if you 're too fat ; we do n't want to see you . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm afraid all this clever talk is a bit over their heads . |
| 5 | He held a cushion over her face and pressed … and pressed … ’ |
| 6 | 2 Novella was n't only drawing a veil over her beauty , but over her femaleness , synonymous — in the descendance of Eve — with seductiveness ; and , even more fatally , with folly . |
| 7 | Tony Myler … the Widnes star is facing a decision over his future after an injury-hit career |
| 8 | I 'd been wanting to break a board over my head for a long while . |
| 9 | In a spasm of irritation he pulled a cloak over his nightshirt , took down a pistol from the wall , and went downstairs into the chilly , stone-smelling darkness of the ground floor , looking for servants . |
| 10 | Owen had closed in behind him and flung a cloak over his head and shoulders , and twisted the skirts of it tight round his body and arms . |
| 11 | He had a dark , fur-collared coat draped like a cloak over his shoulders . |
| 12 | Once an Asian girl has finished school , whether she is Hindu , Muslim or Sikh , the threat or prospect of marriage begins to loom over her , casting a blight over her chances of further education . |
| 13 | We can throw a sack over 'is 'ead an' warn 'im ter be quiet or else . |
| 14 | His mother Kathleen told an industrial tribunal : ‘ The postmen put a sack over his head and threatened to post him to Hull . |
| 15 | As for you , I could n't care less if you walked out on to that stage with a sack over your head . ’ |
| 16 | ( He slips a coin over his shoulders as he goes to look upstage . ) |
| 17 | She had pulled a stocking over her head and threatened a cashier with a toy cowboy gun . |
| 18 | I 'm hardly the type to rob a bank with a sawn-off shotgun and a stocking over my head — I 'd more likely do it using a computer or something . |
| 19 | It was after ten next morning when Ronni emerged from the villa , wearing a T-shirt over her swimsuit , to find Filippo and Agnese having breakfast out on the terrace . |
| 20 | The submersible rose higher in the dock , the overflowing sea rushing like a tide over their boots . |
| 21 | She took a look over her shoulder and saw a horse and rider behind her and at full stretch , but with the sun in her eyes , Artemis could n't distinguish who it was . |
| 22 | She flicked a look over her shoulder , glad to have provoked this bad feeling between them . |
| 23 | When she threw a look over her shoulder , however , he had n't given up at all , but was prowling towards her with a bemused smile on his face . |
| 24 | She sneaked a look over her shoulder at him . |
| 25 | Yeah let's have a look over your shoulder . |
| 26 | She acknowledged this with a raised thumb , but when she showed me the assortment of charts on the bed-table pushed against the wall she gave a thumbs-down over his fluid-intake . |
| 27 | Japan has become the centre of a storm over its plans to build a canal that threatens one of the wetland sites protected under the Ramsar Convention , whose three-yearly meeting it hosts in June . |
| 28 | He had rigged up a sort of tent , I saw now , draping his jacket over the open door , a shirt over her legs . |
| 29 | Ruth choked on her wine and smothered a napkin over her face . |
| 30 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |