Example sentences of "to [pos pn] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | She writes about her country home : ‘ The old toad is rolling his drum down at the foot of the hill , and the crunch , crunch of the cows is near to my window over the barbecue . |
| 2 | China therefore regards any challenge to its sovereignty over Tibet as intolerable interference and any threat from inside Tibet as treason . |
| 3 | Sun Microsystems Inc has been sending out some rather confusing messages of late with regard to its position over the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment — DCE — initiative , which is more or less completely opposite to its own Open Network Computing , ONC environment . |
| 4 | It is at zero in the nuclear war band and rises steeply to its peak over the guerrilla war and terrorist bands . |
| 5 | Initially concerned mainly with royal patronage , it broadened until it involved a claim by the state to regulate every aspect of the activities of the Church , from its right as a corporation to hold property to its control over university education and charitable foundations . |
| 6 | In contrast to its silence over Panama , the Commission confirmed yesterday that it would be ending all contact with Romania , following the bloody repression of protests throughout the country . |
| 7 | As well as survivors from the original 58 Dakotas acquired between June 1943 and mid-1945 , the SAAF has added other aircraft to its fleet over the years . |
| 8 | He went on , ‘ If it had n't been for Bertha sticking to her guns over the question of the house , I 'd have been married to Doreen by now — and that would have been a disaster . ’ |
| 9 | Strangely , her last waking thoughts centred on none of them , nor even his blackmailing threat to her job over Travis . |
| 10 | Although the Ibrox side are currently servicing a £12m overdraft , they could slash that figure dramatically thanks to their triumph over English champions Leeds United . |
| 11 | Ted Forde , RRA chairperson , said the RRA would appeal and said most of the council debate was irrelevant to their concerns over the dump , as the debate had focused on the factory in Ovens . |
| 12 | Local folklore has it that in prehistoric times men drove wild cattle to their deaths over Combe Scar and ate them where they fell at the foot of the crag ( cattle bones are reputed to have been found there ) . |
| 13 | Green and overeager they were distinctly optimistic to their clients over the telephone . |
| 14 | The latter were almost completely destroyed , but the basement halls , still being excavated , survived almost intact ( except for their decoration ) due to their use over the centuries as the city refuse dump . |
| 15 | In the needs that I am proposing there is no claim to their universality over time and place , only that they are broadly applicable to most contemporary Western societies ( more or less ) . |
| 16 | It is a tribute to his determination over his 22 years that he has achieved where so many before him have failed . |
| 17 | Karl Gesner has had to swallow quite a few blows to his ego over the last few days . |
| 18 | Zack studied Quinn and the assembly strapped to his chest over his shirt , and swore softly but violently . |
| 19 | Rod Richards , the Tory MP for Clwyd North West , was speaking at an impromptu Press conference called during a constituency surgery at Rhyl which had been picketed by a small group of demonstrators objecting to his stance over the issue of pit closures . |
| 20 | Rod Richards , the Tory Member for Clwyd North West , was speaking at an impromptu Press conference called during a constituency surgery at Rhyl which had been picketed by a small group of demonstrators objecting to his stance over the issue of pit closures . |
| 21 | Although Mr Brown , the anti-establishment populist , failed to come close to his win over Mr Clinton in Connecticut two weeks ago , he will undoubtedly fight on as a spoiler until the final primary in California in June . |
| 22 | The pair were in the front rank throughout , nothing else landing a blow , and Golden Chip had also dictated terms to his rivals over a mile on the same course four days earlier . |
| 23 | The man , in his 20s , clung to an overhanging tree when his damaged craft was in danger of carrying him to his death over a raging weir . |
| 24 | Virginia 's doctor , a self-important little man , had a patient once who lost her memory after the shock of seeing her husband fall to his death over a cliff . |
| 25 | That this can give rise to erroneous inferences with potentially disastrous consequences is shown when Lok nearly falls to his death over a cliff because he smells smoke . |
| 26 | This added to his ascendancy over the tyros round his Cabinet table in the autumn of 1964 , as he now acknowledges . |
| 27 | For various reasons several of our most active members will be unable to give their valuable support to your committee over the coming months . |
| 28 | in the January edition of She magazine , but although it 's the January edition , it er does pertain to Christmas , because it 's all about the guests you invite to your home over the festive period , some of whom you could well do without . |
| 29 | Walk from the Malá Strana end of the bridge past the first six pairs of statues listed below , then look down over the edge to your right over Kampa Island . |
| 30 | You may think you 're obsessed , pal , with Miss Return to Your Roots over there … ’ |