Example sentences of "over the english " in BNC.
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| 1 | I threw the water over the English boy and his friend , and the fire blazed in my head and heart and between my legs . |
| 2 | The brothers were literally run out of town and back over the English border . |
| 3 | Although Henry 's desire to have a new wife and greater control over the English church was the primary incentive for the schism , Cromwell and the members of Anne Boleyn 's faction were also keen to bring about reform of the church ( see Chapters 4 and 6 ) . |
| 4 | Papal influence over the English church had been significantly eroded during the course of the fifteenth century , partly as a consequence of late fourteenth-century legislation , such as the statutes of Provisors and Praemunire , and partly as a consequence of the international political situation . |
| 5 | The same legislation which stripped the pope of his control over the English church gave a range of new powers to Henry , authorizing him to reform the church , supervise canon law , lay down doctrine , and conduct visitations of monastic houses . |
| 6 | Throughout the remainder of the 1530s , royal propagandists were systematically employed to justify and publicize Henry 's claim to supremacy over the English church . |
| 7 | However , despite Laud 's personal antipathy towards the papacy , the 1630s did see a growth in the influence of Catholicism over the English government and an improvement in relations between Charles 's court and the papal curia , and for the large numbers of English Protestants who were unable to distinguish between Arminianism and popery and who regarded Laud as little more than an agent of Rome , there could be no doubt that the archbishop was to blame . |
| 8 | Even so , I ca n't help noticing the occasional clanger in films made by non-wildlife departments — a recent example being bee-eaters calling over the English countryside in winter . |
| 9 | Now the pope had a new anxiety over the English crusade , threatened by an Anglo-French dispute in Gascony . |
| 10 | During the course of Edward 's long reign the English crown attained what , according to one historian , amounted to sovereignty over the English church . |
| 11 | When in 1862 the general synod of the SEC removed the Scottish communion office from its primacy of authority over the English Book of Common Prayer he took the Episcopal bishops to court , appealing as far as the House of Lords ; he defended his case himself but lost the action in 1867 . |
| 12 | There were coaches to arrange from Dover to bring over the English contingent , there was breakfast and lunch the following day , there were marquees to order and decorate with flowers , most of which Ari undertook . |
| 13 | Despite British membership of the European Communities , there is an important sense in which Britain and certainly the British still look westward across the Atlantic rather than eastward over the English channel . |
| 14 | ANYONE would think from the controversy over the English Shakespeare Company 's production of Macbeth at Darlington Civic Theatre that the company are completely unaware of theatre finance . |