Example sentences of "with [noun sg] [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | All three of them were armed ; I mean armed , with revolvers , with cartridge belts over their shoulder and carbines , which looked like Springfields at first . |
| 2 | Nicandra and Lalage sat with carriage rugs over their knees in the back of the big car . |
| 3 | Mrs Castle opens her account with a few reflections on the ‘ feminine ’ touch Edward Heath had brought to the redecoration of Chequers and some bitter-sweet memories of 1969 , when she and Wilson had clashed there with trade-union leaders over the In Place of Strife proposals for union reform . |
| 4 | They swoop and scream to a halt in a narrow street alive and garish with neon signs over narrow dark doorways . |
| 5 | Because of the difficulty in placing a trolley wheel on the wire during the blackout and the risk of knocking passengers ' hats off or worse , when pulling the pole down , or the risk of a broken spring inside the trolley mast , one of the J Type cars was fitted with metal hoops over the ends of the upper deck in August 1916 . |
| 6 | The buses crawling through the gates seem empty , but curled up on the seats , on the floor are the recruits , some with plastic bags over their heads , others muffled incognito in scarves . |
| 7 | A number of meetings have been held with District Councils over the period of the preparation of the plan . |
| 8 | This lock is the uppermost of the mechanized locks and like those below , has a brick control tower and a gantry with traffic lights over the lock chamber . |
| 9 | Walesa was reported as mediating discreetly with union leaders over disputes in various sectors throughout the month . |
| 10 | Walesa was reported as mediating discreetly with union leaders over disputes in various sectors throughout the month . |
| 11 | His employer gave him a glowing reference and spoke about him to a friend by the name of Sir Algernon Clark , a fellow businessman who was having problems with insurance brokers over the size of the premium for insuring his wharf and its most valuable contents . |
| 12 | Cawson defines corporatism as a process ‘ in which organizations representing monopolistic functional interests engage in political exchange with state agencies over public policy outputs which involves those organizations in a role that combines interest representation and policy implementation through delegated self-enforcement ’ ( 1985a , p. 8 ) . |
| 13 | The bid by what is now Braintree District Commercial Services , an organisation set up to comply with Government rules over competitive tendering for council jobs , is for £246,285.27 . |
| 14 | Export figures for January-October 1990 were US$1,216 million , with import figures over the same period at $1,713 million , giving a trade deficit of $497 million . |
| 15 | ROYAL aides have had talks with health officials over the higher-than-average level of cancer-causing radon gas — revealed by our sister paper the Sunday Mirror — in the Balmoral area . |
| 16 | Mrs Snelling , who was engaged in a power struggle with school governors over the control of her opted-out school , received her OBE , but declined to comment on her award . |
| 17 | The results of applying a transformation procedure to the aeromagnetic data were compared with vector measurements over dense networks in the two areas , made specially for the study . |
| 18 | Gigolo Aunts ' casual tenacity has been rewarded with a deal with Fire Records over here , which gives everyone the opportunity to catch ‘ Cope ’ and its maudlin lyrical concerns . |