Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They included some senior generals who over the previous months had been criticized in the Belgrade media for poor leadership in the military campaigns in the former Yugoslavia . |
| 3 | Hmm well you 've been giving a few answers yourself over the last few weeks . |
| 4 | Both of those figures , sir , exclude any windfalls whatsoever over the next thirteen years , now if that is a justification for a new settlement , I 'm a disbeliever . |
| 5 | Later , confronted with the ambiguously dominating Attwater who kings it over the natives on his atoll , one of them ‘ broke into a piece of the chorus of a comic song which he must have heard twenty years before in London : meaningless gibberish that , in that hour and place ’ , seemed hateful as a blasphemy : ‘ Hikey , pikey , crikey , fikey , chillinga — wallaba dory . ’ |
| 6 | He built Barbon Manor , which now lords it over the pines perched halfway up Barkin Fell like a Bavarian schloss . |
| 7 | There were of course bitter disputes among the Bolsheviks themselves over the direction of Soviet policy after the immediate threat to their power receded , with furious denunciation from those who fell foul of the regime — most notably from Trotsky . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It has particular significance for those churches who over the last decade , aided by the enthusiasm which stemmed from the Archbishop of Canterbury 's report ‘ Faith in the City ’ ( December , 1985 ) and the subsequently established Church Urban Fund , have tried to put their buildings , their membership and above all their local networks at the service of the wider community . |