Example sentences of "[pron] over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this wardship of his over the de Breos lands , that 's a plum indeed , and one the King wo n't willingly confide to Richard along with his earldom . |
| 2 | By contrast , whenever you have dealings with someone over the telephone you can not see them . |
| 3 | By the time we lowered ourselves over the bergschrund and had descended the soggy snow of the glacier , the sun was dipping below the satellites of Mt Blanc . |
| 4 | At last he succeeded in hauling himself over the boundary wall to the solid ground that marked the edge of Old Ashfield property . |
| 5 | His pursuer smiled grimly , and waited as many seconds as he dared before heaving himself over the wall with surprising agility . |
| 6 | As Gentle reached the river 's other bank Pie'oh'pah turned and fled , throwing himself over the wall into the park without seeming to care what lay on the other side : anything to be out of Gentle 's sight . |
| 7 | Owen threw himself over the wall and dropped down . |
| 8 | He became adept at launching himself over the canoe 's side ; first leaning back with legs outstretched athwart the cockpit , a quick flip of the body brought him face down towards the water before lowering himself onto it . |
| 9 | Nobody had seen that Jack Malone 's solution would involve throwing himself over the quarry one dark night . |
| 10 | Bracing his knees against the gunwale and steadying himself with one hand on the mizzen backstay , he prepared to relieve himself over the stern . |
| 11 | He launched himself over the edge , going into free-fall , his feet still planted on his board . |
| 12 | Ronni turned to scowl at him as , with the easy grace of a pole vaulter , he swung himself over the edge of the boat . |
| 13 | Hrun , heaving himself over the dragon 's shoulder scales with one hand and beating out his flaming hair with the other , presented himself to his view . |
| 14 | No action was taken against the newspaper , however , and one journalist , who had taken legal advice himself over the story , steadfastly maintained that he had quoted Nick Clayton 's comments completely accurately . |
| 15 | Mr Farrow is understood locally to have taken the conveyance between the Earl of Carnarvon and himself over the lordship of the manor to mean that he was owner of the common . |
| 16 | He had to rip his jacket free from the wooden beam and , sprawling himself over the chair , held onto the rope for all he was worth . |
| 17 | Poshekhonov asked Holly as he sat down , squeezing himself over the bench . |
| 18 | He hauled himself over the gravel clear of the chassis , stood up , opened the front passenger door , pulled the lever which unlocked the hood . |
| 19 | He , surprisingly enough , was comparatively sober , which means he was drunk by any ordinary standards , but by the very gauge he had set himself over the years , he might be called a pillar of sobriety — and grumpy with it . |
| 20 | His urine tests show glycosuria which over the months abates . |
| 21 | As productivity declined and inflation rose , the State under Conservative rule responded with a monetarist policy , the effect of which over the period 1979–86 took unemployment from about 1.5 million to almost 4 million . |
| 22 | It certainly is a good story but it is hard to believe that a designer as experienced as Tupolev would casually use such information without first carefully checking it out , particularly if one considers the history of the Russian aircraft industry which over the years has sprung many surprises upon the West and will doubtless do so again in the future . |
| 23 | Any wordlist , short of a full-blown dictionary , must be highly selective and although the following must needs be short , it contains terms which over the years the author has found particularly useful . |
| 24 | WORK has started to demolish the flats in Weycombe Road , Haslemere , which over the years have been named the Barracks because of their appearance . |
| 25 | Wrapped in white toga-like shammas worn over long white shirts and jodhpurs , they set a fashion which over the years was copied by an increasing number of their subjects . |
| 26 | In that time I followed the course of the massive city walls which over the centuries had sustained so many assaults before falling at last to the Turkish onslaught . |
| 27 | First the painting community rejected the opportunity to draw a female nude , a subject which over the centuries has inspired the great artists . |
| 28 | such as this year 's figures you know they 're not paying you to somebody over the phone and expect to remember of course they ca n't so I 've got the detail that I need to keep looking at , and there about that 's about it . |
| 29 | How can it help me do my job ? point of view the reason is that it can help you do your job is very simply that to involve members of the public er local councils , local authorities , decision makers and allows the outcome to , to erm entertain them and to erm hope for and communicate what it is they 'll come erm in a non-threatening , non-selling , non-hard sell environment where they can come along , they can enjoy themselves and go away and form their own opinions without somebody over the head with what they 're try to sa trying to do erm |
| 30 | You know , you buy co , a bottle of Coke , it says , you know , if you hit somebody over the head , it can hurt them , so please do n't , kids do n't do this at home type stuff . |