Example sentences of "go to [noun] over " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I had considered going to California over the winter but I realised it was n't necessary .
2 So ehm , so , what she going to work over there then .
3 Successive governments have refused to implement the recommendation of the Evershed Committee in 1953 that the costs of going to law over issues of general public importance should be paid out of public funds .
4 As a very old colleague points out : ‘ It 's better than going to war over it . ’
5 His silence about Megara is not complete : Pericles is described as telling the Athenians that they will not be going to war over a trifle , if they refuse to rescind the Megarian decree as the Spartans demand .
6 FOUR ex-servicemen have been booted out of a British Legion social club after going to war over what they believe are missing funds of up to £250,000 .
7 I 'm only here under duress because I did n't want to go to court over this nonsense .
8 A stunned Mrs Hanley said as she left court : ‘ We never wanted anybody to go to prison over this . ’
9 If Marshal Piłsudski and Colonel Beck , the Polish leaders in Warsaw , were upset that France had not given them stronger backing over the Wilia crisis , then they were also relieved to find that Hitler was not prepared to go to war over the city — at least not yet .
10 ‘ But it 's not decent to go to war over something like this , ’ I screamed , thumping my fist on the table so that the cups on the dresser rattled .
11 He did not expect that he would have to go to war over the Holy Places , but if he was called upon to do so , he thought that he could produce the men , guns and money he would need for victory .
12 He died before he went to trial over the matter .
13 I spent holidays at home , but went to school over here , and then into the Army .
14 None of our family went to school over here .
15 They went to Morocco over the 1952 Christmas period , partly because Paul Bowles ' The Sheltering Sky had made Morocco and especially Tangiers the place to go .
16 Britain and France had gone to war over Poland when it was invaded by Hitler in 1939 , there were numerous Polish-Americans concerned about its future , and a Polish ‘ government-in-exile ’ already existed in London .
17 Herodotus can not bring himself to believe in a story which gives as the cause of centuries of rivalry ‘ nothing worse than woman-stealing on both sides ’ ( 42 ) , for he does not think the Greeks could possibly have gone to war over anything so trivial , and indeed he appears to concur with the Persian view that ‘ no young woman allows herself to be abducted if she does not wish to be ’ ( 42 ) .
18 The guidance , while encouraging social workers to share information with clients about their needs , warns them against recording this on the assessment form because clients could go to court over any assessed needs which are not being met with services .
19 Gangsters go to war over Pepsi
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