Example sentences of "[v-ing] over the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were scheduled to fly out over East Anglia and the North Sea , crossing the coast of Holland and then on to the Ruhr as far as Cologne , returning over the same route . |
| 2 | Since the average rate at which the foreign debt was raised was probably about 25 dinars , its dinar value in early 1988 was about 50 times as great , approximately the same as the change in the cost of living over the same period . |
| 3 | He sat at his desk looking over the same papers and repeatedly having the same conversations but unable to take decisions or achieve anything . |
| 4 | I felt a touch of the sinister that rules so many of the islands ; there was no reason to shiver in that warm spot , but I did , and experienced a slight sense of embarrassment , as though I had been intruding , thinking perhaps not of Tiare but of the great love all those years ago which had produced her : forty years ago when the water was cascading over the same cliff in just the same way as it had today , Princess Tiare 's mother and her lover had bathed in the same secret pool and later , perhaps , made love in the cave behind . |
| 5 | Print publishing over the past four years has shown an annual growth of some 8% but electronic ( non-print ) publishing over the same period has reached an annual growth rate of some 20% . |
| 6 | Comparisons of prey assemblages of predators hunting over the same area ( Append . |
| 7 | As he puffed the cigar to life , he shook his head , a man weary of going over the same ground again . |
| 8 | Its main function will be to ascertain whether the results of the first investigation would appear as firm to another team going over the same ground . |
| 9 | So it 's going over the same ground but from the different er different emphasis because clearly my mistake last week was to try and cram in too much and to erm assume that what I was saying about modern sex theory was erm self-evident . |
| 10 | I feel it 's taxpayers money being wasted yet again , because they 're just going over the same ground . |
| 11 | 1 Can you draw this figure without going over the same line twice ? |
| 12 | Carp are not a true shoal fish like most other coarse fish , vet you may see several fish in a group feeding over the same area . |
| 13 | He or she will receive a flow of income over the year and will engage in a flow of spending over the same period . |
| 14 | ‘ They are all fighting over the same cake . |
| 15 | If CFC emissions continue to increase at the current rate , they would cause an extra 2C of warming over the same period . |
| 16 | Now they are scrapping over the same pound — and over the betting levy , which the Horserace Betting Levy Board redistributes from punters to those who run the racing business . |