Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] [verb] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed downright immoral to torment the poor woman with questions now just for the sake of proving the Jaguar 's brakes were faulty or Fanshawe driving over the seventy limit . |
| 2 | Even as she spoke , however , the door was flung open and Sarah stumbled over the threshold , half-dragging and half-lifting George into the room . |
| 3 | One after another , the Doctor , Ace , Francis , Elaine , Defries and Bernice stepped over the thick cable and into the TARDIS . |
| 4 | During their stay the Juan Carlos and Salinas presided over the signature of a five-year treaty of friendship and co-operation in the context of which Spain was to provide aid to Mexico of 4,400 million pesetas ( about US$40,000,000 at current exchange rates ) over five years in the form of credits and investment in the private sector . |
| 5 | The 499th anniversary of Columbus 's arrival in the Americas on Oct. 12 was marked by marches by indigenous people in Guatemala , Mexico , Bolivia and Chile protesting over the massacre and exploitation of indians which followed the Spanish conquest of Latin America , and the violence and injustice still being suffered by their descendants . |
| 6 | His companion , a pretty , dark-haired woman , was taking up all of his attention , and Lissa frowned over the rim of the cup . |
| 7 | She suspects that Charles suspects that she had once had an affair with Ivan , but of course she had not , though she concedes that Ivan is so unpleasant that only a degree of past sexual intimacy could plausibly explain the kind of relationship that he and Liz have over the years established . |
| 8 | As the season progressed , so had the heat , and Huy and Merymose stood over the body with their heads wrapped in linen cloths to protect them from the sun . |
| 9 | Hitch , Morton and McCann stood over the other three men while they transferred the precious cargo , guns trained on them at all times . |
| 10 | They drank tea together and Müller went over the report with him . |
| 11 | There were reports — denied by Quayle but confirmed by Richard Burton and , in his book , by Philip Burton — that Quayle and Burton quarrelled over the interpretation . |
| 12 | America and Europe smoothed over the argument which had hitherto stalled progress . |
| 13 | I do n't think it 's that big and Dick came over the other day and erm he wait |
| 14 | As they dismounted and fanned out to surround the camp , John and Angela headed over the mountain to the south . |
| 15 | She and Guy lived over the road , next door but one to Barbs 's house . |
| 16 | Before the appearance of the corn shoots the farmer employed children , both girls and boys , to scare off the birds : in October and November to guard the winter corn , in March and April to watch over the spring sowing . |
| 17 | Yet interestingly , ‘ deviance ’ and ‘ sexism ’ are not two additive features which together portray the school as a fetid jungle of would-be Tarzans and Janes swinging over the desks and refusing to wear proper clothes . |
| 18 | Orcs and Goblins poured over the Worlds Edge Mountains through passes previously guarded by the Dwarfs , while in the northern forests human tribes began to move southwards . |
| 19 | The reabsorption into landed society of those families who had suffered in the upheavals of the past decade was to be a slow process , and was to give rise to fresh disputes over lands claimed by families who had been on opposite sides , but Edward showed over the next twenty years that loyalty and service would receive their due reward . |