Example sentences of "[verb] over [art] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the chains on some passes were too short to pass over the wearers ' heads : they were getting longer chains in . |
| 2 | I came over the Brownies ' Bridge . |
| 3 | Some things he longed to talk about — he agonized over the Christians ' attitude to nuclear bombs and it grieved him that Fisher did not agonize . |
| 4 | A similar scholarly consensus exists over the Nationalists ' vastly greater success in dealing with internal factionalism . |
| 5 | He wears pink rubber gloves , their tops stretched over the overalls ' cuffs . |
| 6 | He vacillated over the lorry-drivers ' strike , shrinking in the end from declaring a state of emergency and ruling out the use of troops to move medical supplies from the docks . |
| 7 | This deployment of weapons , with the fast-firers mounted high , is because we are the tallest Titan , and will aim over the Warlords ' shoulders … |
| 8 | The geese arrived with a bow wave that surged over the nomes ' feet , and arched their necks down towards Shrub . |
| 9 | The pair fell over the Lions ' goal line with four arms wrapped round the ball and there was a moment when Bunce had more contact on the ball . |
| 10 | The country worker who came to town lost much of his independence , in spite of the long-established guilds , which had existed from the past to watch over the workers ' interests . |
| 11 | Some of the sepoys were shot or cut down as they struggled to get over the possessions ' which stuck out jaggedly here and there ; a sowar pitched headless from his horse on to a silted-up velvet chaise longue ; a warrior from Oudh dived head first in a glittering shower through a case of tropical birds while a comrade at his elbow died spreadeagled on the mud-frozen wheels of the gorse bruiser . |