Example sentences of "over [art] [noun pl] in [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was inspired by the victory of the Poles over the Turks in Bessarabia in 1621 and sings of the heroism of the Slavs in their long fight against the infidels . |
| 2 | Helen whispered , running her fingers reverently over the brilliants in Alexandra 's bracelet . |
| 3 | From the roof they had a splendid view , not only of the proceedings below but also over the houses in King Street and Parliament Street , which forked at the end of Whitehall and led into Parliament Square . |
| 4 | ABOVE : Andy Gray in competitive action against Huddersfield ( 4–0 ) during Palace 's 4th round FA Cup success over The Terriers in January 1990 . |
| 5 | He got out of the planes coming , we , we was coming over from de Laborgie and you give him the needle and I had to lead him off the lead him off the plane , and going down over the chimneys in Chantilly to landu Laborgie he goes , woo ooh ooh , getting ready you know . |
| 6 | I did n't expect her to do so , but what I did n't know then was that she had a holiday cottage in Muker , which is not far over the hills in Swaledale , and one day she turned up with some friends of hers . |
| 7 | It is certainly true that one strand at least in a Northumbrian view of the past seems to have thought of Nechtanesmere as destroying the position of military dominance originally achieved by Eadwine in the first half of the seventh century ( HE II , 5 ) , whereas Eadwine 's ascendancy over the Britons in Wales had disappeared by the mid-630s and an overlordship of the southern English kingdoms , restored only temporarily in the late 650s , was lost long before 685 ( see above , p. 85 ) . |
| 8 | In Britain , Pakistani women continue to enthuse over the fashions in Salwar Kamiz which reach London from Pakistan , usually via Bradford . |
| 9 | In a final statement the ministers expressed " deep concern " over the conflicts in Yugoslavia and in Nagorny-Karabakh and Nakhichevan , on the southern edge of the former Soviet Union and close to Turkey , a NATO member . |
| 10 | Paraschiv , a former international scrum-half who was involved in a 28-22 victory over the Scots in Bucharest five years ago , believes that Romania have more potential than this year 's mediocre results indicate . |
| 11 | Of all the campaigns Mrs Whitehouse has been involved in , one of the most contentious was the private prosecution of Michael Bogdanov over The Romans in Britain . |
| 12 | And all those city-dwellers , disappearing into the courtyards of Kazimierz , arguing politics over the tea-glasses in Petersburg . |
| 13 | Mrs Bridget Prentice 's victory followed that of her husband Gordon over the Tories in Pendle . |
| 14 | ‘ In the West we are constantly telling the Third World to save the rain forests — rather hypocritical considering we are not even prepared to replace the tree cover destroyed over the years in Essex . ’ |
| 15 | As China 's reaction to Western sanctions over the events in Tiananmen has shown , further international pressure on the Dalai Lama 's behalf may only reinforce Peking 's siege mentality and strengthen its conviction that the West is conspiring to undermine socialism in China . |
| 16 | This signal , which was headed " Personal BGS for C of S " , has played a significant part in the controversy over the events in Austria in 1945 , not least because of the phrase " verbal directive from Macmillan " . |
| 17 | At a banquet hosted by Yang Shangkun on Nov. 1 Nixon described the June crackdown as " excessive and unjustified " , saying that it had damaged US respect and confidence in the Chinese leadership and , speaking to Li Peng , he argued that the two countries ' differences over the events in June were " huge and unbridgeable " , but that Sino-US relations should not be allowed to founder over the issue . |