Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] over [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I charged over rocks and taking a run at sand , found that the wheel would skate for short stretches . |
| 2 | I was rubbing the dusty ball of his hair against my cheek as I turned over papers on the desk . |
| 3 | I flew over copies of that photograph of Tweed you gave me , ’ Morgan reported as he drove the Daimler beyond Exeter towards Dartmoor . |
| 4 | This goes to show that alliances formed in the conflict over recreation and access to the countryside are by no means the same as those which coalesce over issues of wildlife preservation and landscape change . |
| 5 | Desiring to flaunt his new found riches he did not want to be seen owning the house which lies behind — a rambling hotchpotch of roof lines and gables which evolved over centuries . |
| 6 | In 1918 , the C.T.D.D. and N.C.T.D. merged to form the National College of Teachers of the Deaf ( N.C.T.D. ) which took over examinations for the diploma in the teaching of deaf children . |
| 7 | A ghostly flame which hovers over bogs and meadows at dusk in rural Finland . |
| 8 | The report continues with a list of cases in which disputes over fixtures in listed building led to a public enquiry , a court case , or both and concludes with a section entitled ‘ How to make the legislation more effective ’ , which provides advice to owners , information on Stop Notices and calls for control over the sale of fixtures . |
| 9 | Both of them poring over maps and guide books , planning the itinerary of every marvellous day . |
| 10 | But Knox could always afford to be a great deal more cavalier about the dangers of rebellion against established authority than those who , being themselves great lords who ruled over men , knew very well the chaos which could result if the bonds of obedience and loyalty were violently broken . |
| 11 | The Philistines were a people organised into a federation of five city states , who ruled over parts of Palestine from about BC 1175 . |
| 12 | Still , if Brahms knew his Rheinberger , what this CD makes clear is how well Rheinberger knew his Brahms , who stands over theses String Quartets , as Beethoven did over the young Brahms himself , only much more obviously : there are echoes of Brahms in the textures , the themes , the passage-work , the construction . |
| 13 | On another occasion she climbed over dustbins and went through the fire exit of a Knightsbridge store , while once she and Carolyn abandoned her car and jumped on a red double decker bus to evade photographers . |
| 14 | General browsing is associated with public library users " who look over books in order to decide which to borrow or read . " |
| 15 | I was moved by the account , seeing resemblances between the experience of these women , dead many thousands of years before , and women alive now who weep over men whose love they think is dead but try to revive with their tears . |
| 16 | On Oct. 18 the German Foreign Minister , Hans-Dietrich Genscher , visiting Kiev as part of a German cultural event met the Ukrainian President , Leonid Kravchuk and Foreign Minister , Anatoly Zlenko , who handed over documents on establishing consular relations between Germany and Ukraine . |
| 17 | She hurtled over cliffs in flaming cars or was brutally murdered on her way to the dry cleaners . |
| 18 | This survival course led by three guides , has you clambering over rocks and streams filled with fish and crabs at the bottom of a huge canyon surrounded by rich green forest . |
| 19 | She pores over time-tables : bus , rail , ship and plane , and travels her secret world in cookery-books . |
| 20 | The villages were patrolled by company uniformed ‘ policemen ’ whose ‘ duties were primarily concerned with the maintenance of the appearance of the village , keeping the lawns tidy and litter off the streets , for example ’ ( Waller , 1983 , p. 98 ) , but Waller 's respondents also reported company ‘ policemen ’ who watched over children 's play , recorded untidy properties ( ‘ It seems clear that the threat of dismissal was thought to hang over men who did not keep their gardens tidy in several villages ’ — p. 100 ) , and ensured that dogs were not kept as pets ( thus preventing the men from engaging in the popular contemporary sport among miners of training and racing greyhounds and whippets ) . |
| 21 | Dickens regards the behaviour of Mr Guppy as ‘ usual ’ in people who go over houses : ‘ They straggle about in wrong places , look at wrong things , do n't care for the right things , gape when more rooms are opened , exhibit profound depression of the spirits , and are clearly knocked up . ’ |
| 22 | Forerunners to the Thomson view included nineteenth-century printers , such as the early owners of The Daily Telegraph , who took over papers in settlement of unpaid printing bills . |
| 23 | Allison , who took over Rovers four games ago after the sacking of Dennis Rofe , has already hauled them off the bottom of the table and claims they are going to be a force to be reckoned with . |
| 24 | As she flicked over memories of the day — embracing in the cold silken water , under that mysterious layer of white mist which cut off the sky above yet gave clear vision to the other side , a quarter of a mile away — the sense of wicked escape , as they laughed together in the empty lunch-time pub … she decided that she would tell her mother she 'd been working both Sundays . |
| 25 | Future pension rates will be at the mercy of employers who take over subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group . |
| 26 | Future pension rates will be at the mercy of employers who take over subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group . |
| 27 | You step over piles of old papers and up past several floors of small businesses before being welcomed into the small , busy room that seems to be all the space that the magazine requires . |
| 28 | We fought over scraps of flesh and gristle as if the economy was a rotting carcass . |
| 29 | But what a change for the better , I kept thinking , when compared to old committee meetings I used to attend when we haggled over lists of topics for inclusion in a syllabus . |
| 30 | Just when you thought there was no one watching over nomes , the universe went and tried to prove you wrong … |