Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | What about the quarrelling Australian couple who plunged over a cliff in separate vans after a St Valentine 's day row and a chase through northern Sydney . |
| 2 | The Philistines were a people organised into a federation of five city states , who ruled over parts of Palestine from about BC 1175 . |
| 3 | But Knox could always afford to be a great deal more cavalier about the dangers of rebellion against established authority than those who , being themselves great lords who ruled over men , knew very well the chaos which could result if the bonds of obedience and loyalty were violently broken . |
| 4 | In particular to who passed over her pearls of ‘ wisdom ’ which made the organisation much easier . |
| 5 | The Swedish priest who advised , ‘ He wrongs himself who turns over his farm to his children , if they are badly brought up ’ , was echoing the ancient Biblical warning in Ecclesiasticus : ‘ As long as thou livest and hast breath in thee , give not thyself over to any . |
| 6 | This remarkable and rapid growth was attributable to a relatively small group of full-time tutors and organising secretaries resident in these counties who demonstrated over several years the importance of their roles , personal qualities and ‘ … their intimate association with members of branches and groups , which , in its turn , comes only from … active sympathy with those ends which they seek to achieve through adult education ’ . |
| 7 | I was sandwiched between two big men who joked over my head about how squashed they all were . |
| 8 | To only a few had he been the devil who gloated over their private grief . |
| 9 | Those within the existing Community who hesitate over future commitments would form the next circle . |
| 10 | A person who holds over at the end of a lease is not a trespasser until demand is made , as only the person in possession can be trespassed against ( Hey v Moorhouse ( 1839 ) 6 Bing NC 52 ) . |
| 11 | Still , if Brahms knew his Rheinberger , what this CD makes clear is how well Rheinberger knew his Brahms , who stands over theses String Quartets , as Beethoven did over the young Brahms himself , only much more obviously : there are echoes of Brahms in the textures , the themes , the passage-work , the construction . |
| 12 | God 's Word is not simply a bare event of encounter with the Subject who stands over against us as Lord . |
| 13 | TO the thousands of kids and their families who flock to Britain 's two top safari parks , the cheeky monkeys who clamber over their cars are part of a delightful day out . |
| 14 | He conveys our variousness because he includes the parts of our life that he hates , as well as those he loves , and notices the many almost unknowable communities in our midst , people only a little less mysterious than his group of Aztecs who came over in stone boats . |
| 15 | One Home has had great success with an art therapist who came over to take classes , combining residents from a number of Homes close to each other . |
| 16 | Between them , the Quakers and the Christian Council looked after about twenty per cent of those who came over on the Kindertransporte . |
| 17 | It is signed on the back by Raisa Gorbachev , who came over to chat to reporters . |
| 18 | He had rung for Baron , who came over and examined her briskly . |
| 19 | THE Welsh Grand National is the next target for this progressive staying chaser , who came over from Ireland last year . |
| 20 | When I told Constanza , she who has a memory for these things said , ‘ Good Lord , not M. J. Devaux who came over with the French team after the war ? ’ |
| 21 | Robert Deane 's daughter married William Dalison of Grays Inn , who was descended from the Dalisons of Lincolnshire and claim descent from one De Alanzon who came over with William the Conqueror . |
| 22 | It occurred therefore to one of " the Teutons " who came over with Daniel Höchstetter in the days of Royal Bess , that guineas and half-guineas might be coined without anyone being the wiser . |
| 23 | The 24 runners included six from the site Fire Brigade , bravely running in their waterproof overtrousers and braces , and two from CSD 's Brussels staff who came over for the occasion . |
| 24 | Vanners Silks is by far the oldest company , its history stretching back 250 years to the Huguenot weavers who came over to this country from France . |
| 25 | Well they used to ask you to invite the e actually invite the American soldiers into your homes and my friend in Chuckery a couple of years ago , I was visiting him one Sunday lunch and a knock came to his door and he went and it was a guy who came over to see , his mum is now dead , but he , he come over he remembered him from the war . |
| 26 | His ancestors were probably Normans who came over . |
| 27 | Or the actor who stumbles over his words for the second time at a rehearsal . |
| 28 | At Llandudno Junction , Control contacted the Motive Power who sauntered over towards the station , just in time to see Baglan Hall head for Llandudno . |
| 29 | General browsing is associated with public library users " who look over books in order to decide which to borrow or read . " |
| 30 | you know , so they do n't make paths for horses who jump over . |