Example sentences of "his [noun sg] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The break lasted twenty minutes ; but it was not a complete break for the horseman for he was still in charge of the horses ; and as they were not feeding they sometimes got restless , especially in the summer-time when the flies worried them and sometimes caused a horse to get his foot over a trace . |
| 2 | Yesterday he kept smiling — first when umpire David Shepherd reversed his decision over a double stumping attempt and soon after when Miandad was adjudged to have been caught and bowled by Chris Lewis . |
| 3 | Wallace made his study over a century before the discovery of the now totally accepted theory of plate tectonics . |
| 4 | He also cited his disappointment over a number of recent appointments made by the Prime Minister . |
| 5 | Sometimes , as he sat at his desk over a dull report , his hand strayed to the telephone and he called her . |
| 6 | Moreover , a secretary attached to a legation or an embassy and not to an individual minister or ambassador , and remaining at his post over a fairly long period , could become a valuable source of information about local conditions : this might be of great help to a new head of mission coming to a strange country of which he knew little . |
| 7 | For Otto the Great , crowned in Aachen in 936 , Charlemagne and his capital were key elements in his effort to legitimise his ascendancy over a rabble of dukes , princelings and petty kings . |
| 8 | Above him Cornelius ran his eye over a box of ancient cane carpet beaters . |
| 9 | I picture this character , a kind of hybrid between Lovejoy and Pop Larkin , scratching his head over a load of bulky junk to be shifted sharpish . |
| 10 | When the Minister next meets them , will he tell them why he stood on his head over a decommissioning — |
| 11 | Why he stood on his head over a decommissioning scheme which is too little , too late ? |
| 12 | awful cos I 'm first-aided I usually get , I 'm the , the lucky person who hangs his head over a sink and sends him home again |
| 13 | ‘ And unless you 're one of Charity LeVille 's nubile masseuses over from Gros Islet … ’ he 'd reached the bed , and to her horror slung his jacket over a nearby chair and sat down on the edge of the bed , far too close for comfort , continuing in the same bland tone , ‘ … which from the pious clutching of bedclothes I somehow doubt , maybe you 'd like to explain exactly who you are ? ’ |
| 14 | From his letters and his wife 's memoirs we picture him in cheap cafés hunched up in his greatcoat over a cup of coffee , with Russian and European newspapers spread about him . |
| 15 | Front running involves a broker/dealer using his control over a customer 's order to deal ahead of that order for his own benefit . |
| 16 | But no-one gives a second glance to a frail Japanese man , who stands , cupping his hand over a cigarette , looking a little lost amid the general traffic . |
| 17 | If he held his hand over a flowering plant , he could sense in himself the healing properties of that flower . |
| 18 | I recall my partner panting , puffing and praying his way over a traverse which in no way resembled the route description , to arrive with abject horror at my belay . |
| 19 | James Palmer , who bungled an attempt to push his neighbour over a cliff in Exmouth , Devon , was jailed yesterday by Bristol Crown Court for 10 years . |
| 20 | Soon I saw a small hut where an old man was cooking his breakfast over a fire . |
| 21 | In this climate , the academic in English and other subjects in the humanities , who is busy , who publishes a lot , who goes to conferences , can not but be preferred to the quiet scholar , who keeps a low profile , even seems rather idle , but is taking his time over a major piece of scholarly writing that may involve many years ' work and which he does not intend to give to the world until he is ready . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And John Kelly , of Woolton , says thanks for successfully taking up his dispute over a hotel refund . |