Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After we 've seen the patients , I 'll tell you more about them over a drink . ’ |
| 2 | These children had suffered 25 attacks between them over a 59-day period . |
| 3 | Littering the slopes of the volcano are thousands of large bombs ejected by the eruption , some of them over a metre in diameter . |
| 4 | We took about £150m out of them over a couple of years . ’ |
| 5 | The whole House will want to congratulate the British miners on doing everything that has been asked of them over a number of years and achieving that massive increase in productivity . |
| 6 | A man was monitoring one of them over a pair of headphones . |
| 7 | The Profitboss. genuinely cares for his customers and develops sound trusting relationships with them over a long period of time . |
| 8 | The NEAP process involves : ( i ) the identification of a country 's environmental conditions and specific problems ; ( ii ) preparation of proposals to overcome the problems ; and ( iii ) formulation of a plan of action to deal with them over a specific period of time . |
| 9 | Nurse Jones was a busy woman and he valued the minutes he had with her over a cup of tea when she came down from the bedroom . |
| 10 | Teacher : Mr Y ( year head ) for example , I had a great verbal battle with him over a West Indian girl called June Green who I teach . |
| 11 | Gold Blend beauty Sharon Maughan finally gets her man when co-star Tony Head declares his love for her over a coffee . |
| 12 | The bulk of the programme would then outline in some detail the specific projects being funded , and the resources allocated to them over a 3–4-year period . |
| 13 | His choice of vegetables was being dictated to him over a portable telephone . |
| 14 | Edinburgh district council estimated the cost of clearing the backlog at £25.5 million and we made that allocation to it over a two-year period . |
| 15 | HCFC-123 , a substitute material for ozone-damaging chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) being marketed by the British chemical company ICI , has been found to cause tumours in rats exposed to it over a two-year period . |
| 16 | Said Leonard to us over a bottle of Sabbath wine , ‘ I did not have a scholar 's bent ; at that time I spent many evenings with Layton and we would ‘ crack ’ poetry together — discover the poet 's meaning . |
| 17 | As Ms Harvest has said to us over a satellite link , ‘ Dr Proctor … he was the Devil all right . ’ |
| 18 | We have an impressive ability to recognise those familiar to us over a wide variety of conditions : for example varying lighting conditions , viewing angles , cosmetic changes ( hairstyles or make-up ) and even age . |
| 19 | Well , there was no need to decide straight away ; she could think about it over a leisurely solo breakfast . |
| 20 | He glanced up at her over a pair of imaginary spectacles . |
| 21 | He was staring at her over a tray of empty glasses . |
| 22 | Gary Stebbing was a stylish England Youth international and sometime captain who joined the Palace straight from school in 1983 and played in a variety of midfield and defensive positions for us over a five year span . |