Example sentences of "[pron] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this wardship of his over the de Breos lands , that 's a plum indeed , and one the King wo n't willingly confide to Richard along with his earldom . |
| 2 | By contrast , whenever you have dealings with someone over the telephone you can not see them . |
| 3 | By the time we lowered ourselves over the bergschrund and had descended the soggy snow of the glacier , the sun was dipping below the satellites of Mt Blanc . |
| 4 | At last he succeeded in hauling himself over the boundary wall to the solid ground that marked the edge of Old Ashfield property . |
| 5 | Mr Farrow is understood locally to have taken the conveyance between the Earl of Carnarvon and himself over the lordship of the manor to mean that he was owner of the common . |
| 6 | He had to rip his jacket free from the wooden beam and , sprawling himself over the chair , held onto the rope for all he was worth . |
| 7 | The effort began to sap his strength and his muscles quivered as at last he pulled himself over the icy edge . |
| 8 | He launched himself over the edge , going into free-fall , his feet still planted on his board . |
| 9 | He , surprisingly enough , was comparatively sober , which means he was drunk by any ordinary standards , but by the very gauge he had set himself over the years , he might be called a pillar of sobriety — and grumpy with it . |
| 10 | His pursuer smiled grimly , and waited as many seconds as he dared before heaving himself over the wall with surprising agility . |
| 11 | No action was taken against the newspaper , however , and one journalist , who had taken legal advice himself over the story , steadfastly maintained that he had quoted Nick Clayton 's comments completely accurately . |
| 12 | Nobody had seen that Jack Malone 's solution would involve throwing himself over the quarry one dark night . |
| 13 | He became adept at launching himself over the canoe 's side ; first leaning back with legs outstretched athwart the cockpit , a quick flip of the body brought him face down towards the water before lowering himself onto it . |
| 14 | Poshekhonov asked Holly as he sat down , squeezing himself over the bench . |
| 15 | He hauled himself over the gravel clear of the chassis , stood up , opened the front passenger door , pulled the lever which unlocked the hood . |
| 16 | As Gentle reached the river 's other bank Pie'oh'pah turned and fled , throwing himself over the wall into the park without seeming to care what lay on the other side : anything to be out of Gentle 's sight . |
| 17 | Bracing his knees against the gunwale and steadying himself with one hand on the mizzen backstay , he prepared to relieve himself over the stern . |
| 18 | His predecessor , Centwine , abdicated on his conversion to enter a monastery , but of the details of the process by which Caedwalla established himself over the western Saxons nothing is known . |
| 19 | He planned to take care of her himself over the next five days , he told her . |
| 20 | Hrun , heaving himself over the dragon 's shoulder scales with one hand and beating out his flaming hair with the other , presented himself to his view . |
| 21 | Owen threw himself over the wall and dropped down . |
| 22 | Ronni turned to scowl at him as , with the easy grace of a pole vaulter , he swung himself over the edge of the boat . |
| 23 | He 's been lucky of course , in that respect , in that he has had something to occupy himself over the last few months as far as the Gulf war is concerned , and in that respect , of course , I think I do n't I think it would be very difficult to fault him . |
| 24 | It can see through clouds , which over the past week have stymied satellites using visible light , and even penetrate the soil . |
| 25 | It certainly is a good story but it is hard to believe that a designer as experienced as Tupolev would casually use such information without first carefully checking it out , particularly if one considers the history of the Russian aircraft industry which over the years has sprung many surprises upon the West and will doubtless do so again in the future . |
| 26 | Our campaign soon led us to investigate the finances of the National Land Fund , which over the previous twenty years had been used to acquire a whole series of country houses for the nation . |
| 27 | His urine tests show glycosuria which over the months abates . |
| 28 | Any wordlist , short of a full-blown dictionary , must be highly selective and although the following must needs be short , it contains terms which over the years the author has found particularly useful . |
| 29 | WORK has started to demolish the flats in Weycombe Road , Haslemere , which over the years have been named the Barracks because of their appearance . |
| 30 | The ‘ ship ’ is therefore dwarfed by the size of the ocean which is post-school education and training ; moreover it is an ocean which over the last ten or so years has been in unprecedented turmoil culminating in the hurricane represented by the 1988 Education Reform Act . |