Example sentences of "[prep] over a [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miloš , however , was not interested , and after wasting Vuk 's time for over a year he let the scholar return to Austria empty-handed . |
| 2 | For over a year he underwent chemotherapy at the Royal Marsden Hospital before a scan revealed there was no trace of cancer left in his body . |
| 3 | But , I , what I ca n't understand is , why all of a sudden does he want her back and see the children , well for over a year he kept her away ? |
| 4 | For over a year she had been cutting out coupons from magazines and sending off for make-up samples that she had kept hidden in a small suitcase in the boathouse ; since her grandmother 's death she had brought them indoors and experimented openly , primping all day long , leaving streaks of grease everywhere , on the table cloth , on the bathroom shelves . |
| 5 | The parrot-in-the-chimney affair quite definitely cooled both parents down a lot and for over a week they were comparatively civil to their small daughter . |