Example sentences of "his [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | DEFIANT Ted Dexter last night flatly rejected calls for his resignation over the David Gower affair . |
| 2 | We 've followed his progress over recent years and seen him grow up , quite literally . |
| 3 | Each person consumes all his income over his lifetime . |
| 4 | Ludens , hot and flushed , sat down , smoothing his hair and running his fingers over his face as if to put it too in order . |
| 5 | The magnetizer [ hypnotism was known as ‘ animal magnetism ’ ] — independently of making the passes and of fixing his eye upon her — often takes her hands between his and then draws his fingers over various parts of her body , now over her face , and then over her body and legs , pressing , perhaps his knees against hers , and sometimes applying ( we have seen this done ) his lips to her stomach , and making insufflations upon it . |
| 6 | Richard ran his fingers over the expensive-looking business card his secretary had just handed to him : ‘ Simon Middleton — Financial Consultant ’ , it read . |
| 7 | He shook the bread into the broad palm of his hand and closed his fingers over it gently , as if it were alive . |
| 8 | He smiled , holding the hollowed column lovingly between his hands and smoothing his fingers over the spiralling pattern of the wu-tu , the ‘ five noxious creatures ’ — toad , scorpion , snake , centipede and gecko — then drew it on , easing himself into its oiled soft-leather innards and fastening its leather straps about his waist . |
| 9 | He leaned back in his chair and laced his fingers over his paunch . |
| 10 | Howard moves his fingers over the smoothness of the smooth facets , the complex texture of the hatched ones , scarcely able to absorb the pleasure that their alternation gives him . |
| 11 | He avoided Alexei 's eyes , and ran his fingers over the grain of the layers of wood and horn which were compressed between the clamps . |
| 12 | Lucenzo reached out and pushed back the tress of copper hair which had fallen over her forehead , and she trembled at the sensual drift of his fingers over her face . |
| 13 | She held it out to him and after one startled glance at her Felipe took the figure in his hand , running his fingers over it . |
| 14 | Lazily lifting his hand , he trailed his fingers over her scalp , and a tingle went down to her toes . |
| 15 | ‘ Because , my darling , it very rarely is , ’ he told her huskily , trailing his fingers over her soft , yielding flesh . |
| 16 | The delicate tracing of his fingers over her naked breast nearly clouded her mind off forever . |
| 17 | But what about his honesty over Sarah Chester Fabrics … his treatment of his fiancée Nicola … his entire reputation as a self-interested entrepreneur with a flexible approach to integrity … ? |
| 18 | At the song 's end , he casually tosses his guitar over his shoulder and into the drum kit . |
| 19 | He dangled his foot over the drop . |
| 20 | ( GUIL walks half the distance towards the PLAYER , stops with his foot over the coin . ) |
| 21 | The break lasted twenty minutes ; but it was not a complete break for the horseman for he was still in charge of the horses ; and as they were not feeding they sometimes got restless , especially in the summer-time when the flies worried them and sometimes caused a horse to get his foot over a trace . |
| 22 | ‘ This guy got fed up with it , threw his skis over one ridge and started to climb over when it collapsed . |
| 23 | Yesterday he kept smiling — first when umpire David Shepherd reversed his decision over a double stumping attempt and soon after when Miandad was adjudged to have been caught and bowled by Chris Lewis . |
| 24 | The subject is the saint after his martyr 's death , the result of being flayed alive , with his skin over his shoulder like a cloak ; go around behind the statue to see the face , with hair , beard and eye holes . |
| 25 | Tossing his case over the top of it , he scrambled up and dropped lightly down on the other side . |
| 26 | And that was exactly what the radiologist was doing as he slowly ran his sensor over my stomach . |
| 27 | Armstrong also expressed his worry over the inconsistency between benzene-diazo-chloride and benzene-azo-benzene , both with two nitrogen atoms . |
| 28 | They are boring , grey-coloured , hamster-like devices that scurry away at the first sound of our Michelin Interroutes ; I suppose I would leg it too if some mad giant was riding his bike over my roof . |
| 29 | In essence that has been his difficulty over responding positively to the clarion cry made in December for a recall of the Scottish parliament . |
| 30 | There is widespread admiration for the Secretary of State 's persistence in tackling paramilitary terrorism and for his patience over the political talks . |