Example sentences of "[prep] over [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woodwork can be clearly seen and the turned balusters have been looked after over the years . |
| 2 | Leonard argued the case through the columns of Over the Hills for Spring 1930 , in reforming ignorance of the emerging Nazi appropriation of the Germanic pastoral dream : |
| 3 | Was this a habit he had grown into over the years or had he always been like this , turning his wife into an invalid before there was any real need , a man who could only see himself in a solicitous relationship with other people ? |
| 4 | I do n't mean lying lying , the real heavy-duty , professional stuff , like politics or selling timeshares , I mean those little , easy lies that we slip into over the years . |
| 5 | We were particularly tempting targets and , bombarded with jeers and gallons of water , we finally fled the hamlet clutching our sopping equipment to our bosoms like hysterical mothers — little comforted by the thought that these were the spiritual mediators of the people we intended to sail with over the months ahead … |
| 6 | And he 'd got lots of famous mates that want to play on his records , and he picks up a Grammy and releases records on scrupulous labels , instead of the 30 or more indie horsefixers he 's had the misfortune to deal with over the years . |
| 7 | We have to change the definition of the word that we 've grown up with over the years , otherwise we really ca n't manage the concept . |
| 8 | But what we have to do is completely junk the definition of the word quality that we 've grown up with over the years . |
| 9 | I will because Mr Mayor I think that councillor started off his response to this by talking about ghettos and a lot of differences between the better off and the worst off and I , the feeling I got from his speech was that what he was actually driving at was he was attempting to perpetuate the class distinction that the Labour party have been so bound up with over the years . |
| 10 | ‘ Come on , Angus , ’ Donald persisted , ‘ let us hear a song from over the mountains . |
| 11 | From over the bridges and Liffey walls they cheeked the captains with cries of : |
| 12 | I write to her with my window open to catch a breeze which is coming from over the plains where the short rains are expected . |
| 13 | Illicit stills flourished , smugglers and " rum-runners " brought in alcohol from over the borders , and " bootleggers " distributed the liquor . |
| 14 | We begin to leaf through two large black plan chests containing examples of numerous advertising campaigns that he has been involved in over the years . |
| 15 | Maskelyne 's repertoire included many famous tricks and illusions which were repeated and improved upon over the years . |
| 16 | Those who are mentally alert may not find it easy or pleasant to take help from the very ones they have supported and cared for over the years . |
| 17 | That also means we will be subsidizing bad employers through our taxes and the fiddling factory owners will undermine the decent conditions we have fought for over the years . |
| 18 | Oh we were brought up together all on the same vicinity for over the years you get to know one another and and erm thoroughly enjoy ourselves . |
| 19 | And you used to be ab well you used to be able to over the flames of the fire on one side , and then er a saucepan on the other on the in one side with your vegetables in one side , with your potatoes in and then you used to have your oven with a for your meat . |
| 20 | When the County School had moved to the Oxford side of the town in 1930 , generous provision of land had been made and that was prudently added to over the years . |
| 21 | I 'm not claiming that these are the ‘ best ’ ( whatever that can mean in terms of music ) solos I have ever heard , or even the best players — just the records that I 've kept on coming back to over the years . |
| 22 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |
| 23 | The outer door to the estate office slammed and the inner one opened with its uneasy stick and snuffle past the strips of draught-excluders worn down and added to over the years . |
| 24 | We are now told that , having been lied to over the years , the British people now have the prospect of political union , and they react against it and shy away . |
| 25 | But this was a great feeling of what we had been used to over the years in watching American movies and , with our tongue in cheek and a bit of a giggle , seeing the adventures of the cavalry arriving , And for the first time in our years of combat I had a glow , a rosy glow , inside me and I knew and was certain for the very first time now we could not be beaten . |
| 26 | ( This was added to over the centuries and culminated as a gigantic mansion of the early 1830s ) . |
| 27 | You do n't have to over the rocks ! |
| 28 | Yes I suppose it 's true that for somebody like me I 've been involved in quite a lot of different groups over over the years and the quarry men 's support group is it 's difficult to put in words really er exactly how it 's erm you know I think it 's very easy f for groups to become sort of s set really and er well I 've always wanted it to involve everybody and I think it does that in a way it sort of er it 's quite special to all of us in in a funny sort of way it 's er you know we feel quite committed . |
| 29 | What kind of q Yeah what are the kin what are the kind of qualities that have helped you get by over the years ? |