Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb past] over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as a mark of their respect for their aviator comrade , a lone bugler played The Last Post and Reveille before an RAF Hercules flew over the graveside at Frankby Cemetery in a special salute to the man who had given the last six years of his life to his country . |
| 2 | In between a shot from Ken Monkou whistled over the bar from ten yards when an equaliser looked to be a certainty . |
| 3 | But during the autumn of 1938 , the distaste that Hampden Jackson felt over the Board 's machinations was expressed in a personal note to Jacques : |
| 4 | The visitors were unlucky not to score when Mark Butler headed off the line from a corner in the nineteenth minute , and Ken Mulligan shot over the bar for the visitors , being put away by Hurst . |
| 5 | Prince Charles 's new private secretary , Commander Richard Aylard pored over the articles looking for clues while the Queen 's private secretary , Sir Robert Fellowes pointed the finger at the staff inside Kensington Palace . |
| 6 | Then it went off again and Ray Shepherd slumped over the wheel , blood pouring from his shoulder . |
| 7 | Aunt Margaret presided over the table with placid contentment , urging them to eat with eloquent movements of the eyes and hands . |
| 8 | Lord Justice Butler-Sloss presided over the Cleveland inquiry into child abuse . |
| 9 | " Later that evening , as El-ahrairah was urging his rabbits to growl more fiercely and run up and down in the marshes of Kelfazin , Prince Rainbow came over the river . |
| 10 | A large , badly painted portrait of Mayor Donlevy hung over the desk . |
| 11 | Presently the Watling Street Guard came over the hill to the strains of ‘ Viva España ’ and soon we were all singing away . |
| 12 | Most of these schools are in very remote spots and this particular one is surrounded by mountains ( close the borders of the kingdom of Lesotho and near the spot where Donald Woods escaped over the river to Lesotho , if you saw the film Cry Freedom . |
| 13 | AS Stephen Hendry bent over the table to line up another shot there was more than victory at stake — he was literally taking his life in his hands . |
| 14 | Early on July 9 , 1982 , suffering from the strain of his marriage break-up , Mr Fagan climbed over the walls of Buckingham Palace and found himself — by chance — at the Queen 's bedside , he said . |
| 15 | ‘ Mr Dysart paid over the odds for charring , and my Wilfrid thought I was mad to give it up , but I was glad to go , believe you me , glad to be out of that house for good and all . |
| 16 | Mr Popple peered over the side of the toilet , his right hand leaning on the toilet-seat . |
| 17 | Second Lieutenant Kenneth Keith of the Gordon Highlanders looked over the parapet of his trench on Christmas Eve and was astonished to see one of his soldiers talking to a German soldier in No Man 's Land . |
| 18 | Daniel Miller leaned over the bed … |
| 19 | Mrs Corney bent over the bed , and the dying woman opened her eyes . |
| 20 | Then a couple of Jumping Jack fireworks came over the top , one of which fell into my underpants . |
| 21 | But this came to naught and so Queen Margaret slipped over the border into England . ’ |
| 22 | Lord Roger slumped over the organ keyboard , the life whipped out of him . |
| 23 | This eroded the extent to which the giant US firms towered over the rest . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's just so gorgeous out here , ’ Carole Meadows enthused over the phone . |
| 25 | The talks ended abruptly on the morning of May 28 , as an angry Tesfaye Dinka protested over the US sanctioning of the EPRDF 's move into Addis Ababa , and EPRDF forces fought government troops around the presidential palace . |
| 26 | As acting President Frederick Gilby presided over the BDDA 's first post-war Congress , held in Glasgow in 1920 , where Ernest Ayliffe was elected as the next President of the Association . |
| 27 | As the result of lengthy investigations into the Duzme Mustafa revolt , Mehmed Sah was implicated in that affair ; and , Husameddin relates , " Molla Fenari grieved greatly that at the end of the investigations , in the year 832 , Mehmed Sah Efendi passed over the bridge of death together with Candarlizade Ibrahim Pasa and the Grand Vezir Haci Ivaz Pasa . " |
| 28 | One irate Charlton official barked over the telephone : ‘ Get him off the pitch . |
| 29 | April sunlight sparkled over the water , dancing across snow-covered fields . |
| 30 | In the end technology triumphed over brute strength and John Powell stormed over the finish line to take the chequered flag in a record 44 minutes . |