Example sentences of "[verb] over [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Battles wage over display in newsagents . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll have a bath and then nip over home for my dancing shirt , ’ said Otley , looking at me . |
| 3 | Place over bowl of simmering water and whisk until whisk leaves a trail . |
| 4 | Similarly , A-level zoologists quickly overcome the unease they develop over pork on learning about the tapeworm ‘ s ( Taenia solium ) exotic lifestyle . |
| 5 | The Conservative Conference : Hostile shadows loom over haven from reality |
| 6 | The Labour Party Conference : Gay rights group wins support over age of consent |
| 7 | This field is situated at the edge of the Zechstein salt basin and thin beds of halite extend over part of the structure . |
| 8 | In the latter case the offender does appropriate the property because , although the owner has handed over possession by consent ( which was obtained by deception ) , he has not transferred the property ( that is , the ownership ) and the offender , intending to deprive the owner permanently of his property , appropriates it , not by taking possession , but by the unilateral act , adverse to the owner , of treating as his own and taking to himself property of which he was merely given possession . |
| 9 | Jerry Rawlings ( who had also staged a successful coup in June 1979 against the then military rulers , and had handed over power to President Hilla Limann in September of that year ) . |
| 10 | Eritrea 's struggle for its independence from Ethiopia has gone on , first against Haile Selassie and then against the Soviet-backed Mengistu regime , since 1952 , when the UN feebly handed over control of its Trust Territory to Addis Ababa . |
| 11 | The United States officially handed over control of the relief operation in Somalia to the United Nations . |
| 12 | They weep over muck like that on their side , too . ’ |
| 13 | The three standing stones of Lundin Links in Fife now watch over play on a golf course , though without providing any additional hazard . |
| 14 | This handed over responsibility for the poor law from the boards of guardians to the local authorities . |
| 15 | Normally he handed over responsibility for the routine maintenance of their relationship to Ellen , but she was letting him down , so he was going to try the only technique he knew : drop some explosive overboard and see what floated to the surface . |
| 16 | In 1969 the National Liberation Council handed over power to Dr Busia , the moderate politician amenable to Western counsels . |
| 17 | Shankar and Vice-President Henck Arron formally " resigned " and handed over power to the Army on Dec. 27 . |
| 18 | Captain Jonathon Faulknor handed over command of HMS Impregnable to his sailing master , Michael Jenking , for the final leg of the voyage into Portsmouth harbour . |
| 19 | As the FA handed over control of this aspect of the game to the League , it was not likely that club chairmen would encourage investigations that might damage themselves . |
| 20 | It ticks off a litany of mistakes from its dependence on mainframes through to the conscious suppression of RISC technology and the grotesque series of blunders by which it handed over control of PCs to Intel and Microsoft . |
| 21 | He was among the politically active officers of 1647–9 , serving on the small standing committee to which Sir Thomas Fairfax ( later third Baron Fairfax of Cameron , q.v. ) handed over control of issuing all commissions , and acting as a spokesman for the high command in their successive dealings with the Parliament , the king , and the radicals in the army itself ( the Agitators and their Leveller allies ) . |
| 22 | On Dec. 6 Ershad was forced to relinquish power and handed over control of the government to Chief Justice Shehabuddin Ahmed who had been nominated as Acting President by the main opposition alliances . |
| 23 | In the years that followed the Brigade was called to a vast number of outside fires , until they eventually handed over control to the National Fire Service in 1942 . |
| 24 | A TERRIFIED woman handed over cash after being threatened with an imitation handgun yesterday at the Eastbourne Road petrol station in Grove Hill , Middlesbrough . |
| 25 | The privatization which handed over administration of benefit payments to employers was the brainchild of Sir Norman do I need to say more ? |
| 26 | True , she went to bed late , and was often at her desk until four a.m. , and so might have been expected to rise well after midday , and luxuriate over breakfast before beginning her day 's work at one in the afternoon . |
| 27 | Arrest over attack on woman driver |
| 28 | Indeed , in the 1960s and 1970s , deliberate over issuance of Treasury bills was the way in which the Bank of England enforced Bank Rate . |
| 29 | He spoke for most aid workers when he said that when the UN takes over control on May 4th its work will be only just beginning . |
| 30 | This thick tash must be accompanied by a large cigar and the refusal to go to any club that would have you as a member • Nabisco takes over disco as this year 's club theme . |