Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our eyes met and all the while we were sitting down discussing what we had to do and how we were going to go about it over the four days of the course , my gaze kept returning to the sour-faced buzzard . |
| 2 | He said he 'd think about it over the weekend , and let Paul know on the Monday . |
| 3 | No that was that was the Friday and as it says th well I do n't know if it says there or not , but they said what would happen , they 'd think about it over the weekend and they 'd contact me the Monday afternoon erm to make a final decision . |
| 4 | It would be misleading to corrall all the donated works into feminist questioning of gendered identity ; one of the freedoms women have won for themselves over the last 20 years has been precisely those freedoms from conventional definition by gender . |
| 5 | erm Has that been a concern of unions , or has it been other sorts of organisations that have been pressing for them over the years ? |
| 6 | This was meant to be the moment of her greatest satisfaction , when she unleashed on him all the bitterness and resentment that she had carried inside her over the years . |
| 7 | It 'll be a way to acknowledge the end of an era as well as to acknowledge the people who contributed to it over the last 20 years . |
| 8 | Peter called to him : ‘ Lord if it is you , tell me to come to you over the water . ’ |
| 9 | It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind . |
| 10 | Ma peered at him over the top of the evening paper , Her eyes were shifty with guilt . |
| 11 | Then she peered at him over the barrier of her firmly folded arms and expressed a thought that had occurred to her before , but that now she felt impress itself on her even more strongly . |
| 12 | Liz , the receptionist , peered at me over the top of her pink-rimmed spectacles . |
| 13 | Rod Porter peered at her over the top of his book , glancing at the other visitors . |
| 14 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 15 | His father shouted at him over the noise of the engine , ‘ I want you to see , Alexei . |
| 16 | The sun crept towards me over the red tiles . |
| 17 | But can you think of anybody for yourself who you could think of who over the recently or over the in the past few centuries or closer to home have shown the gifts of the Holy Spirit in their lives ? |
| 18 | Ellen Jebeau brought her lips tightly together and drew them inwards between her teeth before she said , with deep bitterness , ‘ I do n't know about it being a time for plain speaking , I can only say that time has shown your ingratitude for what I 've done for you over the years . ’ |
| 19 | Mexicans in the moonlight , surging towards her over the stubble , old wrinkled women , kids with the bulbous stomachs , things to be honest she did n't see because they drove past too quickly on the motorway . |
| 20 | How much business have you done with them over the last year ? |
| 21 | They added to themselves over the years . |
| 22 | Since he refuses to talk to me over the phone , he 'll have the pleasure of talking to me in person instead ! |
| 23 | ‘ So many people have said to me over the years that it is very sad I never bore Norman a child , that I only ever had stepchildren to love . |
| 24 | Her father was frowning at her over the rim of his glass . |
| 25 | Jannie lay in bed , looking at him over the edge of the covers . |
| 26 | He again knew what it was to feel embarrassed when , on the Monday dinner time , he went into the NAAM , and looking at her over the counter , he said , ‘ Hello there , ’ and she answered , ‘ Hello , yourself . ’ |
| 27 | Mary turned her head , and noticed Ben Weatherstaff 's angry face looking at her over the garden wall . |
| 28 | She demurred a little when he said , picking up his teacup , and looking at her over the top of it , ‘ You never answered my question , Miss McAllister . |
| 29 | There was a pause , than a woman 's reddened , raddled face squinted at him over the sill . |
| 30 | Firstly , the researchers dispute amongst themselves over the value of experiments where animals need to be used . |