Example sentences of "[to-vb] over a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jacques Devraux and his son were waiting beside a baggage truck that was already loaded with the rest of their hunting equipment , and leaving their sons to stand watch , the two men disappeared into the shadowy interior of the market to haggle over a purchase of several hundred pounds of salt and arsenical soap that would be used for drying and preserving the hides of animals they hoped to shoot . |
| 2 | In what other job might you call in and use a hot air balloon to appear over a city on a publicity stunt and that same afternoon sit in on a seminar which you have arranged as a scientific event ? |
| 3 | The fourteen-gallon tank had been about one quarter full of fuel , and both it and a second partially-filled tank were each found to contain over a quarter of a pint of water , the result of condensation forming in the tanks over a six-day period . |
| 4 | Queenie , come up to my office right away will you , I want to go over a mistake in the takings . |
| 5 | Then it was back down to ground level to celebrate over a bottle of champagne with Zoe 's mum , Pat , and husband Joe . |
| 6 | And at times of new issues , they will often be committed to purchasing very large amounts of stock which they can only expect to sell over a period of weeks ; during which period they are exposed to the risk of capital loss if prices fall . |
| 7 | It is a picturesque favourite of visiting party leaders : those present remember fondly Sir David Steel 's manful attempt to smile over a plateful of cockles during the 1987 election . |
| 8 | When she reappeared on the stage it was to look over a sea of smiling faces and to listen to the chant now of ‘ Macushla ! |
| 9 | To sail over a wave without jumping you need to unhook and let your legs absorb the rising wave — rather like a skier uses his legs as shock absorbers over bumps . |
| 10 | But I find it totally incomprehensible that someone who has held the office of Chancellor with high standing for over six years should want to resign over a personality with such suddenness and haste . ’ |
| 11 | The gelding had failed to win over a variety of distances from five furlongs to two miles , but galloped clear in yesterday 's mile and a quarter all-weather race under veteran jockey Chris Dwyer . |
| 12 | To earn full grant-aid , Terminal courses had to extend over a minimum of twelve meetings , and aggregate twenty-four hours of attendance for a minimum of twelve students . |
| 13 | The sort of gesture that might , reasonably , allow a chap to knock over a bottle of wine and make sure at least half of it got all over Donald 's plate . |
| 14 | Now he recalled how , on the second night after his mother had left home , he had climbed out of bed in the late evening and slipped unnoticed from the house to run over a mile to Bournemouth Central Railway Station to catch a train to nearby Christchurch , where his mother had gone to live with her sister . |
| 15 | Although acrylic varnishes are dry in about 30 minutes , they continue to harden over a period of 24–48 hours , but here again this time may vary between different makes . |
| 16 | With employees like you I 'm almost guaranteed to turn over a profit for my investment . ’ |
| 17 | After unearthing four bricks , a milk bottle , and an unidentifiable piece of metal , it was possible to turn over a forkful of earth on that spot . |
| 18 | She moved to another part of the studio and started to turn over a number of stretched canvases , all of them blank . |
| 19 | In terms of sheer size they are sometimes bigger than the countries in which they operate ; they are estimated to control over a quarter of world output ; and their ‘ inter-firm ’ shipments of goods from one country to another account for nearly one-third of recorded trade ’ . |
| 20 | In her mind 's eye , she flayed the red man of his sparse pelt and hung it up to dry over a pole in her garden and then used it — as roofing for her animals ' hutch perhaps , or a tunic for herself . |
| 21 | Driving with considerable power , he failed to get over a ball of fullish length , giving Wessels a stinging catch at mid-on . |
| 22 | It is tuition for her and helps her to get over a lot of barriers about performing live in front of demanding and sometimes difficult audiences . |
| 23 | The pH does tend to drop over a period of time in bare tanks ( that is tanks without any substrate or plants . |
| 24 | Telegrams of ‘ interest ’ and ‘ support ’ were received from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York respectively , and by the end of the year Mrs Whitehouse and Mrs Buckland were claiming to have over a quarter of a million signatures on the Manifesto . |
| 25 | Any manufacturing jeweller would honestly be able to take over a consignment of several hundred , especially if he were offered a 10 or 15 per cent discount on market price . |
| 26 | The Purchaser may be expecting to take over a Business of a particular size — this warranty will reassure him that he is . |
| 27 | In these , males are much larger than females and take much longer to sexually mature - perhaps the result of the increased time spent in competition with other males to take over a group of females . |
| 28 | Average response speed tended to decrease over a period of twenty minutes in sleep-deprived subjects , unlike in rested controls . |
| 29 | For this purpose the current research project has about ECU6 million to spend over a period of two and a half years . |
| 30 | Aim to collect over a period of time a variety of texts covering different types of oral literature , the formal and the informal , fiction and truth , narrative and exhortation , and so on . |