Example sentences of "over a [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this too was called off at the last minute , apparently because of opposition outrage over a massacre at Mbuji-Mayi in central Zaire . |
| 2 | Army cadet John Szkudlapski , 11 , was out collecting Poppy money when a banger inside a tin can was hurled over a wall at him , leaving shrapnel in his leg . |
| 3 | At Congleton the canal is carried over a road at the south-east side of the town by a cast-iron aqueduct , built around 1835 , on curving masonry abutments . |
| 4 | Single rooms over a road at the back of the hotel , have double glazing . |
| 5 | Aethelheard , abbot of Louth in Lindsey , who became archbishop of Canterbury in 792 , may have been seen in Kent as a ‘ symbol of Mercian rule ’ , but he appears to have obtained from Offa a confirmation of the immunity of Kentish churches ( CS 848 : S 134 ) 52 and he presided without Hygeberht over a synod at London attended by most of the bishops of southern England ( CS 265 : S 132 ) . |
| 6 | Colin White , in a cartoon , shows a woman weeping copiously over a man at a desk who is hiding behind an umbrella and waving a white flag . |
| 7 | But the young Swede 's heroic 65 ended in tears when he missed from just over a yard at the final hole , while Love sank a twisting 15 footer and Couples followed him in from 18 inches . |
| 8 | Telford 's intensive subject assessment , co-ordinated in college by Fiona Baikie , took place over a fortnight at the end of November 1989 . |
| 9 | They 'd conspired , with a hired hitman , to push the couple 's burning car over a cliff at Barrow Wake near Gloucester . |
| 10 | Moran 's commitment was legendary in over a decade at Old Trafford and nothing has changed . |
| 11 | Sometimes we have problems finding a referee , or the perfect referee has gone to sea for a month , or the referee loses the figures and takes three weeks to ask for copies , or we have a furious debate over a paper at the hanging committee and decide that we need another specialist opinion . |
| 12 | And former Saints idol Kevin Keegan was in trouble yesterday — he slammed FA bosses who fined him £1,000 over a flare-up at Derby County last season . |
| 13 | It 's thought that the morning , when people are a bit lively , is a good time for therapy-type activities — perhaps have a half-hour reminiscence group over a coffee at 9.30 or 10.00 am . |
| 14 | SELLAFIELD bosses are exposed today as liars after denying a cover-up over a leak at the nuclear plant . |
| 15 | The bank provided finance for our client to exchange contracts , this the deposit , and then subsequently the attempt to obtain full security over their proposed lendings by including security over a property at Frinton on Sea which had been left in part only to our client upon his father 's death . |
| 16 | He was accused of the crime of murder and manslaughter which is reputed odious and atrocious , severely punishable with loss of life and confiscation of the movable property of the committer thereof , that he did upon a day in the previous September unknown with force and violence cast and throw one CHRISTIAN McMILLAN the wife of DONALD McKENZIE in Ellister over a rock at Ellister shore , where they had gone to collect shellfish , into the deep sea where she was immediately drowned and died . |
| 17 | Might this , one wonders , be one of the names that Albert Gunther so helpfully supplied Gould with over a chop at the British Museum ? |
| 18 | But then , there can be no difference between producing x units over a period at one site and unc units for half the period at that site followed by unc at another site for the rest of the period . |
| 19 | Those who tend to see the eighteenth century as above all " the Age of Wesley " usually bring a good deal of retrospectivity to their view of the rise of Methodism over a period at the end of which Methodists were still not especially numerous in the nation as a whole . |