Example sentences of "with a [noun] over " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | As for you , I could n't care less if you walked out on to that stage with a sack over your head . ’ |
| 2 | You see a little moment in their lives , something they 'll remember with a chuckle over tea . |
| 3 | An investigation 's been launched into how three American bombers from an airbase in the region were involved in a near miss with a helicopter over the North Sea . |
| 4 | Dressed in a flared skirt of fine wool which she topped with a shirt and a sweater , Fabia , with a jacket over her arm and too impatient to wait for the lift , hurried down the stairs to meet him . |
| 5 | The reversed drawing was laid on top of the soft-grounded plate and pressure was applied with a pencil over the marks of the drawing . |
| 6 | The plane is fitted with a rig over the rudder pedal for disabled pilots . |
| 7 | She stands in the garden with a basket over her arm and white pigeons flying over her head . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The investors will obviously not wish to provide the managers with a veto over any potential syndication partner . |
| 10 | PINT-SIZED Denise Gilliland sent a would-be car thief packing with a crack over the head from her trusty rolling pin . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's it , ’ said Bodie with a smile over his shoulder at her . |
| 12 | The consequences of the revolution were ramified , and the outcome rarely depended on Qaddafi 's decision to issue a decree , or on a cadre 's negotiations with a shaikh over its implementation . |
| 13 | I knew initially I did n't want a man in a silver suit with a mask over his head — the sort of thing you see in fairgrounds . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The lock entrance measured 107 metres by 21.34 metres with a depth over the sill at ordinary Spring Tides of 9 metres . |
| 16 | Measuring 259 metres by 33.5 metres and with a depth over the sill of 12.3m at Mean High Water Spring Tide the new lock was built to allow ships carrying in excess of 20,000 tonnes of cargo to enter and leave the port . |
| 17 | On top of the cab was a very big circular disc with a grille over it like miniature venetian blinds . |
| 18 | Britain 's ugliest industrial relations dispute since the 1980s began with a row over lay-offs . |
| 19 | According to Mr K , it all started with an argument with a customer over a faulty toy in an Easter egg last year . |
| 20 | One fellow was haggling with a customer over the price of a heavy silver buckle . |
| 21 | Jamila was fast asleep with a sheet over her lower half . |
| 22 | One concerned neighbour — who is now looking after the boy — eventually pushed her way into the flat and found the stricken woman lying on the floor of the front room with a sheet over her . |
| 23 | Pretending to be an Arab , Phillips stood in the middle of the track with a blanket over his head . |
| 24 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 25 | One police van was backed up to the door of the house and a boy was taken out with a blanket over his head . |
| 26 | They are low , so low that they can hardly be called a threshold — more a ramp , with a sign over it begging ‘ Please , please walk up ’ . |
| 27 | We shot in intermittent black rain and brilliant sunlight with a canopy over the lens — finally abandoned it , and went home early . |
| 28 | Blind MP David Blunkett was involved in a row with a cabbie over his guide dog . |
| 29 | Not long after that meeting I was faced with a problem over my official duties and I urgently sought his advice . |
| 30 | Went down with a bang over there . ’ |