Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Applying his make-up was the hardest thing she 'd ever done , her hands shaking as she smoothed a base coat over his skin . |
| 2 | Like steam coming at you from a cooking pot over a camp fire . |
| 3 | Repeat these rows to form a cable cross over every ten rows . |
| 4 | Now it 's really gone a bit bit over the top I think . |
| 5 | So it is likely to use the right of return as a bargaining chip over territorial concessions , unless it believes it is strong enough to obtain both territory and a return . |
| 6 | Although individual students may seek to press the system to its limits , whether in securing credit for prior learning in the admissions process , or in pursuing a formal appeal against a felt injustice over assessment , or in taking advantage of such open learning arrangements as are available , the student body as a whole seems depressingly unconcerned about its academic rights . |
| 7 | If you produce an invoice , and on reading it onscreen discover that you have entered £350 instead of £250 , almost every Windows user will expect to drop a text cursor over the offending 3 and change it to a 2 . |
| 8 | By the summer of 1967 , when he left the Department of Education and Science for the Board of Trade , £16m. had been made available for a building programme over the next two years , with a further £18m. to follow in 1971/2 . |
| 9 | For any Whites who harbour a sentiment for the famed Seadogs of Scarborough , chairman Geoffrey Richmond has resigned after a boardroom row over admission prices . |
| 10 | Now you do n't have to rely on this , because you can ring through to head office in the evening , or you can ring through your branch while that 's open , and get a computer quote over the phone , but actually find it quite useful if somebody asks me to be able to give them an idea of how much it 's going to cost them . |
| 11 | This could be a one-off , or spot , order , or a contract order over a period of time . |
| 12 | Use a fat blusher brush to sweep a pinky blusher over cheekbones and to dust lightly over chin , browbone and perhaps temples . |
| 13 | The Kewishs were on a rail tour over several routes not usually used by passenger trains . |
| 14 | Congress approved legislation on June 25 to force an immediate end to a rail strike over pay and conditions which had begun on June 24 , and which had severely disrupted freight and passenger services . |
| 15 | A COUNCIL has admitted it blundered by sending a former employee a letter claiming magistrates had granted it a liability order over alleged non-payment of poll tax . |
| 16 | You , you have a look Sheila over next door . |
| 17 | With the expansion of trade and industry in the twelfth century — perhaps the most prolific of all centuries for new towns until we come to the nineteenth — a few traders assembled periodically near a crossing place over the river Welland . |
| 18 | Instead , distract your child 's attention from the buckles by fitting a play tray over the top . |
| 19 | Mrs Cochrane 's husband added : ‘ My wife had a depressive illness over a long period . |
| 20 | Steam in a vegetable steamer over boiling water for 5 minutes . |
| 21 | By lining a perforated box with filter matting , covering with a layer of gravel , and filling with planting media and bog plants it 's possible to set up a vegetable filter over the back of a tank . |
| 22 | I had arranged to meet Howard Imber , the writer , for a script conference over dinner at 8 , and fell on to the bed intending to rest for ten minutes before reading through the thick camera script . |
| 23 | TROUBLED Barnet were yesterday threatened with a winding-up order over an unpaid £15,000 bill for replica kit . |
| 24 | Although warning signs shout at you not to cross these fragile constructions , as you 're bound to fall off and die and do n't say they did n't tell you so , you 'd have to be a boring old git not to want to do a balancing act over them for thrills . |
| 25 | The overall winning team was the Manchester firm Ove Arup and Partners who narrowly edged out the Sir Robert McAlpine squad on a card play-off over the last six holes . |
| 26 | Good For A Loan is potentially well treated on some of his form last term - which included a neck verdict over Sukaab at the Somerset circuit 13 months ago - and can produce a potent turn of foot under favourable conditions . |
| 27 | Heat the butter in a frying pan over low heat . |
| 28 | I remember too the suppressed terror I felt one Saturday morning when there was a daylight raid over London and a swarm of black flies appeared in the blue sky and seemed to come on and on as we looked out of our house high on Hampstead Heath . |
| 29 | Later in the year , two U S A Thunderbolt Fighters landed after a daylight sortie over France , they were painted in the usual drab green camouflage colour and both had a pink and red glamour girl on the side about twenty feet long , typical of the Yanks . |
| 30 | A plaintiff once brought a defamation action over the allegation that he was a highwaym . |