Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] over a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you get over a certain number you get a jacket . |
| 2 | He presided over a pre-trial review when it was decided not to go ahead with a case against a babysitter accused of assaulting seven children . |
| 3 | In the 1630s , in particular , he presided over a fractious chapter , divided by personal and some ideological conflict . |
| 4 | On 1 April 1959 he presided over a lavish ceremony the purpose of which was the inauguration of an extraordinary church , built , in Franco 's own words , " in memory of my victory over communism , which was trying to dominate Spain " . |
| 5 | On Channel 2 , the unctuous host of the Gerry Springer chat show had apparently taken a serious oil overdose as he presided over a freak show of truly terrible cases of giantism and dwarfism by telling his goggle-eyed studio viewers they were each of them there ‘ so that next time we may understand and empathise when we meet a woman 7ft 10ins tall . ’ |
| 6 | She has challenged certain long-established political assumptions : that a government could not be re-elected if it presided over a massive increase in unemployment ; or that a government had to govern with the consent and co-operation of the major interests , particularly business and the unions . |
| 7 | I know it happens in individual subjects and there 's the element of repetition but , you are at the same time making them reflect over a certain period and say I have not entirely wasted my time , there maybe some youngsters for whom it will be extremely difficult , and I except that but my thinking is that is you look hard enough you can find something that everybody has done at whatever level that they can take some pride in . |
| 8 | What each of us does over a long period of trial and error is to acquire a set of tools with which we are comfortable and which we can apply in different ways to the myriad problems which we need to solve . |