Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [vb past] over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I clambered into the boat , moored near her big yacht , Lucy took the bottles of beer and Coca-Cola and put them into an open net bag which she lowered over the side , tying the net with a long rope to a hook on the gunwale . |
| 2 | NHS At the Conservative Party Conference in 1986 , Norman Fowler , then Secretary of State for Health , was loudly cheered on producing a long computer printout of 380 new ‘ large hospital schemes ’ costing £3bn , which he unrolled over the rostrum for the benefit of photographers from newspapers which had criticised the Tories ' record on the NHS . |
| 3 | He will leave the Gemeentemuseum in the The Hague still reverberating from the public debate which he initiated over the de-accessioning of two Picassos from the museum 's collection . |
| 4 | But she replied only with a slight inclination , and then turned for Conchis to take off her wrap , which he placed over the back of his own chair . |
| 5 | I mean Margaret next door to me she went over the top when she was |
| 6 | with whom he collaborated over the line drawings for Vogue 's Contemporary Cooking , by Doris Lytton Toye , Keith Vaughan [ q.v. ] , |
| 7 | Was it you went over the fence with Gary ? |
| 8 | Okay , now erm , today as you realize with feelings of immense relief is the last lecture of the term , so , so what I 'm gon na do , is to start talking about the er , so called black books of Freud , the set texts in this , in this course and I 'm gon na start talking today about the first , and in some ways , one of the most important of these , Totem and Taboo , and since it 's the last lecture of term , and you probably all forget what I said over the Christmas holiday , and wo n't be able to recall it afterwards , through the alcoholic haze , er what I thought I 'd do today , was talk about Totem and Taboo in the way in which it looked backwards rather than forwards . |
| 9 | Then you had a a spare man what you sent over the harvest , which you hired for a a month of occasionally they only used to come by the day . |
| 10 | As a rule we had do tell everybody what we did over the weekend which was called our ‘ news ’ and we usually did this first thing on a Monday . |
| 11 | Bunny buried his face in his beer and I only just caught what he said over the noise from the band . |