Example sentences of "who over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , a woman who over the phone sounded to one policeman as ‘ dead on ’ still had a complaint against her noisy dogs investigated because the complainant appeared to another policeman not to be ‘ spinning a yarn ’ ( FN 19/9/87 , p. 29 ) . |
| 2 | The gardener of the family is the Queen Mother , whose gardens at her Scottish hideaways , the Castle of Mey and Birkhall , are stunning , and it is she who over the years has made them so . |
| 3 | Unknown to him , his wife is a gambler , who over the years has been secretly gambling away his money and assets . |
| 4 | Bourke , who died in 1982 , was a colourful person who over the years gave a number of different versions of how he helped Blake escape , progressively embroidering each one with more fanciful figments of his imagination . |
| 5 | My main opposition in the final was Phil Brown from Birmingham , already an established international and the man who over the next decade or so was to be a team-mate of mine and to be the British anchorman in some very fine 4 × 400 metres relay performances . |
| 6 | Over the years Reid 's has been host to many people , and its visitors , book reads like an international Who 's Who over the past century . |
| 7 | ‘ Charles 's problem has been that he married a 19-year-old inexperienced girl who over the years has become a world figure , the most famous woman on the planet . |
| 8 | Agreement in July 1906 , this batch of ten cars was transferred to the new South Metropolitan Company , who over the years carried out a number of modifications on them . |
| 9 | It has particular significance for those churches who over the last decade , aided by the enthusiasm which stemmed from the Archbishop of Canterbury 's report ‘ Faith in the City ’ ( December , 1985 ) and the subsequently established Church Urban Fund , have tried to put their buildings , their membership and above all their local networks at the service of the wider community . |
| 10 | The municipal authorities of Barcelona , who over the past few years have acquired a great deal of experience and expertise in founding and running cultural centres , have recently signed an agreement with the Fundación Salvador Allende to collaborate in setting up a museum in Santiago , Chile , to be called the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende . |
| 11 | As a journalist who over the years had written-up dozens of Honours ' lists for the papers , I knew how the names came in a day early with an embargo . |
| 12 | But can you think of anybody for yourself who you could think of who over the recently or over the in the past few centuries or closer to home have shown the gifts of the Holy Spirit in their lives ? |
| 13 | It has , however , been Eric Kandel , initially jointly with Tauc in Paris and later in New York , who over the past quarter century has made the study of Aplysia learning and memory so especially his own . |
| 14 | BT went a stage further in its experiment , just completed , involving ten staff from its directory enquiries centre at Inverness who over the past year have been operating from home . |
| 15 | To my mum who along with my dad helped me my daughter , who I 'm very proud of as now she 's started taking greater interest in G M B. To my mum who at the moment does n't enjoy the best of health , who over the years has had to endure a daughter who , er , on some occasions has not been a very great help to her , has guided me through very difficult times , as mums always do . |
| 16 | On the day I travelled down with Stan Piecha , who over the years has been the most consistent angler in the competition . |
| 17 | On Dec. 2 , as a result of the first all-German general election since November 1932 , Helmut Kohl of CDU , who over the preceding months had presided over the unification of Germany [ see pp. 37761-63 ] , was returned to office as Federal Chancellor . |
| 18 | They included some senior generals who over the previous months had been criticized in the Belgrade media for poor leadership in the military campaigns in the former Yugoslavia . |
| 19 | The writer enters the negative force-field and her steps are often tentative and painful ; her conclusions often oblique or noncommittal However , having traversed a terrain full of snares , in the final story , Northern Chess the female hero emerges triumphant from the ashes of her sisters , who over the centuries have been burnt at the stake for their dangerous powers . |