Example sentences of "[prep] it over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She threw the ball across the lawn and the cat bounded after it over the frosted grass , the muscles rippling under the black sheen of his coat . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're right into the teeth of it over the first five holes . |
| 3 | After carrying out a survey of the number of people who have died of it over the past three years , COHSE 's Scottish regional officer , Jim Devine , said the union believed many low-paid workers and pensioners were forced to make a choice between eating and heating . |
| 4 | Price Waterhouse 's Australian arm has pledged to ‘ vigorously defend ’ what could amount to a multi-million dollar claim issued against it over the 1989 audit of failed textile company Linter Group Ltd . |
| 5 | Some 30 sacks were taken by six cars to the factory 25 miles away and thrown into it over the main gate at three o'clock in the morning . |
| 6 | We always called it the posh part , because although our street carried on from it over the main road , it was like being in a different village altogether . |
| 7 | We travelled thousands of miles in it over the next two years . |
| 8 | I fell into deceit quite easily , having got used to it over the past months . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | With any luck , it should not need much doing to it over the next few years . |
| 11 | In fact the1880s main building , a Grade I listed extravaganza modelled on Chambord , is in a structurally sound condition , having had money from the Pilgrim Trust , the Wolfson Foundation and the University Funding Council spent on it over the last ten years . |
| 12 | 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 . |