Example sentences of "over a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have taken to colour like a new lover , ’ he pronounced unconvincingly over a cappuccino in the sparse urban palazzo that doubles as his office and town house . |
| 2 | Meirion Rowlands , one of the Ashleys ' most key appointments of this time , was well known as the local prizewinning sheep shearer ; he met Bernard over a pint in the pub . |
| 3 | All these stars are concentrated in a field only a little over a degree in diameter . |
| 4 | Nigel Lawson enrolled in the Clark Gable ‘ Frankly , I do n't give a damn ’ school when he fell foul of his own party over a rise in interest rates just before the Tory conference . |
| 5 | The Gambia announced on Oct. 23 that 980 illegal immigrants , the majority from Guinea and Sierra Leone , had been deported ; the expulsions were apparently prompted by concern over a rise in violent crime . |
| 6 | At the time when the Home Support Project first collected information about them , the majority got some informal care at least four days a week , ( three-quarters in the Ipswich control group and the Newham action group , two-thirds in the Ipswich action group and just over a half in the Newham control group ) . |
| 7 | It is now in a ruinous condition but has the distinction of being the oldest existing railway bridge over a river in the world . |
| 8 | Britain 's National Championship is held annually , usually over a weekend in late summer and if the idea of attending this quaint and somewhat unusual event appeals , then you have a real treat in store . |
| 9 | It was all hands on deck as they worked flat out over a weekend in March . |
| 10 | OVER a weekend in which John Major said ‘ society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less ’ , and Kenneth Clarke let fly against social workers ‘ mouthing political rhetoric about why children in their care are so delinquent ’ , the message which will stick in my mind was from Anfield , saying simply ‘ Rest in Peace James ’ . |
| 11 | THE Manchester United footballer Viv Anderson was given a public apology and undisclosed libel damages in the High Court yesterday over a story in the Daily Star concerning a post-match clash between Anderson and the Wimbledon player John Fashanu . |
| 12 | There had been a staggering decrease in difficulty over a century in the largest Swedish daily , Dagens Nyheter , which roughly corresponded to the difference between children 's books and adult literature . |
| 13 | The Cretaceous genus Inoceramus sometimes grew well over a metre in length ; fragments of this particular genus are frequently important components of the soft , white Cretaceous limestone known as chalk . |
| 14 | The tunnel was the longest in Britain at the time , the first over a mile in length . |
| 15 | Investment was low , interest rates rose , there was concern over a fall in the population level from its 1974 peak of 62 million , and there were calls to cut back on the high social welfare spending built up by the SPD governments . |
| 16 | Rather more than 20 years ago , over a lunch in Staff House , I was persuaded by three eminent lecturers of this University to allow them to nominate me for the Council of Consumers ' Association . |
| 17 | On this occasion , Plage was set up over a water-hole in a clearing in the jungle , hoping that a leopard would show up to hunt or drink . |
| 18 | unc unc A metre is about 39.4 inches or slightly over a yard in length . |
| 19 | There is also an a la carte restaurant , a popular bar , a sunbathing terrace , a small TV lounge and a cafe terrace which is ideal for lingering over a drink in the sunshine . |
| 20 | Business has to be discussed over a drink in the pub , with food quickly snatched at the bar , or an even more hurried lunch grabbed at your desk between meetings . |
| 21 | Coffin and Inspector Paul Lane were talking privately over a drink in the Victory Arms , a pub whose windows gave them a view of the sails of the Cutty Sark . |
| 22 | There were 16 cases of damage to vehicles including £300 damage to a vehicle in Larchfield Street , while paint was sprayed over a vehicle in Rydal Road . |
| 23 | The PDS emphasized concern over a deterioration in the comprehensive social protection currently offered by the East German state . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ My own father , ’ Francis continued , ‘ failed in business and drove himself over a cliff in full view of us all , five years ago . |
| 26 | A court has been told that the idea for an elaborate murder plot , in which a couple were pushed over a cliff in a blazing car , may have come from a film on satellite television . |
| 27 | An alleged hitman accused of pushing a young couple over a cliff in a burning car has claimed he was at home smoking drugs at the time . |
| 28 | Around 20 billion lire ( $13.5m ) was paid over a decade in a corrupt system that was , he said , ‘ nothing short of racketeering ’ . |
| 29 | It was nine by the church clock and another clock over a bank in the town hammered out the strokes . |
| 30 | Petrol prices are set to go up again ; traders in the world oil market still worrying over a war in the Gulf , today pushed their prices to their highest for ten years , at more than forty dollars a barrel . |