Example sentences of "over the [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been an enormous and very genuine outcry over the vast sums it has made from a virtual monopoly position . |
| 2 | WE share the concern of Mrs Heather Countley , way out at Harwood-in-Teesdale , over the 55 minutes it took an ambulance to reach her injured son . |
| 3 | The brothers found that on average over the six months they had incurred costs for advertising , petrol etc. which amounted to £10 for each bed sold . |
| 4 | ‘ We decided Mervyn 's tremendous contribution — one of imagination and professionalism — over the six years he was secretary had to be acknowledged in some way . |
| 5 | Over the following pages we profile the winners , but first let us remember the past year with a whirlwind tour … |
| 6 | OSF/1 was ACE 's primary Unix focus when the initiative was launched amidst much fanfare last year , but over the following months it became clear that DEC was the only major ACE member committed to using the operating system . |
| 7 | Over the eighteen months I have had the multifasciatus they have showed signs of wanting to breed but have failed to do so . |
| 8 | Bankers have warned of ballooning costs over the 18 years it would take to build . |
| 9 | Over the succeeding years he repaid their great kindness with massive generosity . |
| 10 | His highly influential study ‘ Working for Ford ’ , was published in 1973 and over the succeeding years he has continued his studies of the changing strategies of multinational corporation in a variety of different contexts . |
| 11 | Looking back over the two games we made it extremely difficult for ourselves in Moscow . |
| 12 | Over the two matches we were every bit as good as Liverpool and , if we 're honest , we know we should have beaten them on both occasions . |
| 13 | In fact I happened just to have spent the weekend with a dear friend and was well aware that at some point over the two days she had entertained everyone suspected of being concerned , and not a word of politics was discussed , nor a syllable about supplanting anybody . |
| 14 | ‘ I can tell you exactly when I saw you last , ’ Peter said , the urge to surprise her briefly triumphing over the other emotions she aroused . |
| 15 | We had changed a lot over the four years we 'd been together . |
| 16 | Holding hands with your man in the sea and jumping over the biggest waves you 've ever seen ? |
| 17 | Over the coming months we hope to begin the process of finding and purchasing a suitable place . |
| 18 | Over the coming months I expect to see the Inland Revenue , the Customs and Excise and the DTI increasingly at work in an area ripe for their activities . |
| 19 | Because over the coming months I suspect that as a result of the E P A you are going to be called on more and more for information , for putting out press releases , for talking to people , for talking on the telephone , I mean , every single newspaper now seems to have an environmental reporter , and you 're going to be , I suspect , right in the forefront of it . |
| 20 | Over the coming weeks we will reveal some of her exercises to help get you in shape . |
| 21 | John , one of the PPLs at our flying club , had made a beautiful job of building his little Jodel and I had followed his progress closely over the several years it had taken him to complete it . |
| 22 | OVER the 40 years I have talked to you at Christmas I have often spoken of the role Britain plays throughout the world . |
| 23 | It swells and shrinks , changing its output as it does so ; the official magnitude range is from 0.4 to 0.9 , but over the past decades I have seen it matching Rigel on rare occasions , while it is not often as faint as Aldebaran . |
| 24 | We are still passionately committed to our work in Africa , where over the past years we 've made 282 grants in 29 countries in support of both long term development and emergency work . |
| 25 | Over the past years we 've made well over 1000 grants to organisations all over the UK , some probably just round the corner from you . |
| 26 | I thought over the 90 minutes we were the better team . |
| 27 | Some players were nervous and edgy but over the 90 minutes we deserved to win . ’ |
| 28 | OLIVER rolled his eyes back , lit a cigarette and said that the very phrase common sense was a contradiction in terms , and if Man — at which point he pretended to be extremely embarrassed and correct himself to Man-or-Woman — if Man-or-Woman had relied upon common sense over the previous millennia we 'd all still be living in mud huts and eating frightful food and listening to Del Shannon records . |
| 29 | Over the next days we fine-tuned the scheme and made some useful improvements . |
| 30 | De Barescut and Serrigny were despatched again and again to the front as Pétain 's eyes , and — like Saxe on his litter at Fontenoy — over the next days he directed the battle , shaking with fever , from his sickbed . |