Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [noun] over [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | In 1236 , following a long legal battle , he secured visitation rights over the monks of Coventry . |
2 | ‘ Unfortunately , the ceiling we are working on suffered worm attack over the years and was restored in the 1940s using a wax resin , which turned it brown , and cellulose repairs , which shrank , creating further problems . |
3 | Police fired warning shots over the heads of the demonstrators to disperse them , but this angered the crowd , and several thousand people marched on Skanderbeg Square . |
4 | Has X got property rights over the goods entitling him to recover the goods ( or their value ) in priority to any other creditors of Y Ltd. , or , on the other hand , is he merely an unsecured creditor having only a right to sue for the price ? |
5 | You may recall that in 1976 a Church of Scotland minister , defending his action in shooting two of Gavin Maxwell 's adopted otter cubs as they were playing on the shore , argued that ‘ the Lord gave man control over the beasts of the field ’ . |