Example sentences of "[pron] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My own father , ’ Francis continued , ‘ failed in business and drove himself over a cliff in full view of us all , five years ago . |
| 2 | His collections , put together painstakingly by himself over a long lifetime , and including large quantities of newscuttings , ephemera , overlapping narrative autobiography and correspondence , came to the British Museum ( as it then was ) through his family . |
| 3 | There are relevant stair er Chairman which you can look out of place at the present moment of time but they will need to be addressed at some point in time in the future and therefore one could be forgiven for wanting to prioritise various but in general terms , the strategy that has been er looked at is the progress of St Albans in general , there may be small elements of it and some of these have already touched upon but in general that is no sound strategy er which over a period of time and in the process of that it will be essential to monitor erm the effect of some of the changes as you go forward to see in fact whether the other elements of strategy that were erm put in to that er work were in fact still necessary and whether they should be have some . |
| 4 | from our point of view in nineteen ninety three , we have to deal with somebody over a revision of the rent and if the company does n't exist it makes it very difficult ! |
| 5 | But all our speakers are chosen by the Pre-retirement Council and by your employers by the way who over a period of time have selected the Oh well we do n't want him again or that firm again . |
| 6 | Tt I was meant to bring you over a couple of chocolate biscuits and fifty pence for you to give to Craig cos he 's bound to want something . |
| 7 | And I remember at the time , I was chasing you over a most ridiculous national press story that Emlyn did n't like the idea of you a pop singer appearing in one of his classics . |
| 8 | I would love to talk to you over a much longer period , but I 'm afraid that 's all that we have time for today . |
| 9 | One example in Torquay , Devon , has proven itself over a few years . |
| 10 | Banking and dealing room software house Kapiti Ltd reckons that it is reaping the rewards of investment in new product development , and the fact that it has spread itself over a wide geographical area . |
| 11 | The explanation seems to be that consecutive measurements have been found to be very consistent , whatever variation exists manifests itself over a longer period corresponding to several averaged measurements . |
| 12 | The large increase in coastal shipping after 1760 was built on a transport facility which had already proved itself over a long period among the most valuable of the country 's natural assets . |
| 13 | The Woman loomed over the group , tall and brown and smiling down at the two mops of black hair — one over a quizzical smile and the other over a scowl . |
| 14 | ‘ FLIGHT TO FREEDOM ’ read the headline of one over a picture of the unusual sight of a golden eagle flying over Regent 's Park . |
| 15 | If there is if there are no er examples of er er dev individual examples of development pressure , as I say we have one apparently presented to us this morning I think one over a period er since nineteen eighty seven , it 's not a basis for a policy . |
| 16 | Cor , something 's shaved that one over a little bit . |
| 17 | For something over a century the major export item was beaver fur for felting and making into men 's hats . |
| 18 | In Esso Petroleum Co Ltd v Harper 's Garage ( Stourport ) Ltd [ 1968 ] AC 269 Lord Reid said : Whenever a man agrees to do something over a period he thereby puts it wholly or partly out of his power to " exercise any trade or business he pleases " during that period . |
| 19 | It 's pointless looking at something over a month . |
| 20 | Consequently his wife has been left to fend for herself over a variety of matters . |
| 21 | He I I 'd been to them over a a period of about two years erm with all sorts o of different problems and in the end he said , You know I can increase your drugs but that wo n't help . |
| 22 | Got them over , they , they said , they said they know they 've got them over a barrel . |
| 23 | He handed me over a key . |
| 24 | Sharon asked me over a slightly crackly line . |
| 25 | ‘ The Ukrainians do n't really know much about Britain , but I 'm going to serve champagne and two kinds of caviar so I expect we 'll have a good time , ’ Gladstone told me over a crackling telephone line shortly before the party began . |
| 26 | As the saying goes ‘ we clicked ’ and thus began a friendship and correspondence between Ella Shields and me over a period of years until her death in 1952 . |
| 27 | For instance when in a dream she was conducted by me over a market garden in Aegina , one could guess that she had been reading Angus Wilson 's The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot , in which a market garden figures ; or when I dreamed of a detective novel by her , with a detective bearing her own name and very uncharacteristically dressed there were signs of my addiction to the detective novels of Gladys Mitchell . |
| 28 | ‘ If you English tourists get too powerful around here , ’ he told me over a glass of grappa , and with a particularly charming smile , ‘ I think I can remember where the old machine-guns are buried . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ George read me over a list of CIA personnel who were in London in the late Sixties — ’ |
| 30 | Anyhow , ’ he continued , ‘ the three of us spent the day locked in consultation , as Marc called it , the result being that he came charging to my rescue , routed the two con-merchants , who thought they 'd got me over a barrel , and generally behaved like the perfect human being he is . ’ |