Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raw council estates spilled over the fields at the edge of town , marring the views . |
| 2 | a number of the savings erm and the increased income that is available to , to avoid savings are the result of your own policies developed over a number of years and I hope implemented with a degree of further manage managerial action which has actually given you some money to spend , erm which will avoid you having to make er painful cuts in order to fund a new growth and in particular I would highlight the significant movement that has has now taken place , children from special educational needs provision outside the county , back into the county . |
| 3 | In 1957 Macmillan inherited the leadership of an unpopular government , lagging behind Labour in the opinion polls , but the policies pursued over the years to 1959 managed eventually to retrieve the party 's position : Macmillan 's nuclear ‘ defence ’ policy seemed at the time a plausible way to reclaim the status of a world power on the cheap ; the formation of EFTA was negotiated ; Macmillan sacked the deflationary Chancellor Thorneycroft and substituted Heathcoat-Amory who instituted another convenient bout of pre-election tax cutting . |
| 4 | The company , founded in 1974 to create and publish practical reference books for adults , now sells its titles in over 80 countries and in 37 languages and almost 90 per cent of the 560 titles originated over the company 's history are still in print . |
| 5 | A similar situation in some respects developed over the office of fiscal of the regality court of Lennox , or Mugdock , an appointment which was held by William Weir , the town clerk of the burgh of Rutherglen , a gentleman who also officiated as commissary of Hamilton and Campsie . |
| 6 | TWO teenagers quizzed over the murder of schoolgirl Helen Gorrie , 15 , were last night released without charge by police in Horndean near Havant , Hants . |
| 7 | Her eyes moved over the room too . |
| 8 | Indeed it is difficult to exaggerate the impenetrability of the mystery which for centuries hung over the problem of the strength and fracture of solids . |
| 9 | Then their blonde heads met over a whisper , followed by twin ricochets of studied laughter . |
| 10 | They have to address questions such as why people buy an inefficient fridge , when more efficient models are available , and how consumers balance a greater initial cost with savings made over the life of an appliance . |
| 11 | And when her soft red lips closed over the tip of his rapacious tool , he felt he was being lifted into paradise . |
| 12 | His lips closed over the whole of that puckered orifice , and she could feel his tongue darting into the very folds of her anus . |
| 13 | The crew lost control of the ballast system after seawater splashing through broken portlights washed over the ballast console and caused it to malfunction . |
| 14 | A small hole was dug , the cigarette buried , songs sung over the grave and then the whole procession wended its w ? y round the field four times singing the funeral march from Aida , which we had been practising for a week . |
| 15 | This may vary from a few words exchanged over the garden fence , to visits which last all day . |
| 16 | They did n't even get as far as the bedroom , one of the soft rugs strewn over the carpeting in her lounge serving as their bed of reunion , Maria still partly and Luke almost fully clothed as they subsided on to its subtly glowing colours . |
| 17 | A servant arrived with some freshly made jus de citron and for the next half-hour the three of them remained with heads bent over the materials which would do so much to enhance Félix 's English collection . |
| 18 | His eyes played over the building in front of them — a jumble of towers , crenellations and massive walls with a sagging Rag of St George above the gatehouse picked out in the beam of a spotlight . |
| 19 | Vincent 's demands mounted over the years until they seemed to flood in — as they often did — by every other post . |
| 20 | The little decorations of social history are thin traces laid over a surface . |
| 21 | Then , as her eyes swept over the crowd clustered round the stage , she did a double-take , spotting one figure much larger and more powerful than the rest . |
| 22 | Her eyes swept over the audience as far as she could see beyond the footlights . |
| 23 | The room was exactly as she 'd left it — shoes in the middle of the floor , the overall she wore for doing the bedrooms thrown over the back of the chair . |
| 24 | It was too large for her and the wide sleeves of limp cotton hung from her freckled arms like rags thrown over a stick . |
| 25 | He surrounds himself with a considered disarray of natural objects ; piles of logs for the open fire , wooden rustic chairs , a chinese screen and antique rugs thrown over the parquet floor . |
| 26 | The grey eyes flicked over the curves of her body , and finally rested on her face . |
| 27 | ’ Her eyes flicked over the Louis XIV furniture of the formal salon . |
| 28 | Nervously his eyes flicked over the screen . |
| 29 | Bicker shrugged , but his eyes flicked over the fire for a second to Riven . |
| 30 | The numbers killed in commercial set-nets declined over the period , but the number caught in amateur nets increased . |