Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] over a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After handing over a new Glenmore design requested b a consumer , Eddie discussed other sales enquiries and the latest news from Harrogate , the main carpet exhibition of the year , which had just finished . |
| 2 | ‘ The largest single category of problems mentioned , however , was depression and anxiety attributable to the stresses of caring over a prolonged period of time . ’ |
| 3 | A good game of tennis , badminton , hockey , netball , or football , for instance , all involve a great deal of running over a prolonged period of time . |
| 4 | The Ikon Gallery , whose lease is coming up for renewal in February 1993 , is studying the possibility of taking over a Victorian school next to the International Convention Centre . |
| 5 | Most notably the sheer agony of sitting over a blank sheet of paper when ideas just do n't come . |
| 6 | If you would like a tiled bathroom or kitchen floor , but have been put off by having to solve the problem of tiling over a wooden floor that could flex and crack , and so shift the grouting and loosen or even split your new ceramic floor tiles , then the answer could be the new Schlüter DITRA matting , available from stockists of Homeslux Products . |
| 7 | That 's all the thanks you get for slaving over a hot stove , ’ Mrs Cartwright shouted after us . |
| 8 | It was kind of exciting to realise that another three strides would put her out in front of everybody , almost like looking over a low rail at a mile-long drop . |
| 9 | Something above moving over a smooth sea prompted Monsoon to chatter . |
| 10 | SIR — In turning over a new leaf , the Labour Party would do well also to turn over a new blossom . |
| 11 | It was interested in taking over a small mine called Wheal Concord but pulled out because financial prospects were poor . |
| 12 | Proposals for a Defense Industrial Base Revitalisation Act , which would also have provided cash for retooling over a wide range of American industry , had widespread support from Democrats and Republicans . |
| 13 | He had obviously told the servants that he had accidentally set fire to his room by knocking over a lighted candle . |
| 14 | He redeemed himself by sending over a good cross for P Reid to put the Olympic in front . |
| 15 | United owed much to goalkeeper Rees , who had earlier saved superbly from Holden and later denied Adams , first with a block with his feet then by kicking over a dipping effort from the right . |