Example sentences of "have [verb] over [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 Now if our assets if by promoting the right to buy , by having capital receipts we seem to have a large balance building up , there is the distinct risk given the sort of policies that this government has pursued over time of a we will be running a risk there , we do n't know what they 're going to do , you do n't know what they 're going to do .
2 This described Dutch society as one in which liberal consensus has smothered over expressions of homophobia , while leaving the underlying heterosexism intact .
3 Whether HMIs or local inspectors are involved , the school still has to give over control of the evaluation to outsiders ; it may only be willing to do this if teachers are assured of the kind of fairness discussed above .
4 If , say , you are a young person — student or worker — who has invited over friends of the same age , they will probably expect to bring a bottle of wine with them .
5 This plant is a hybrid which has evolved over years of cross breeding with the Sinningia speciosa from Brazil .
6 She could believe that this was the creature that had floated inside her — yes , like a starry astronaut in his liquid capsule , attached to his red life-support cable — she had pored over photographs of embryos and imagined him a hundred times .
7 The Colonel had recalled exciting nights he had spent in the open , round the naphthalene lamp , enticing and trapping moths ; he had enthused over bits of bone he had excavated in the peat bog .
8 The 2 people who run the farm have signed over ownership of the animals to the RSPCA .
9 The Japanese learned that their Far Eastern neighbours were better at making portable radios and black and white televisions and for some years now have passed over production of these items when only 10 years ago they were world leaders .
10 Until now , though , we have glossed over descriptions of shot sizes , and the time has come to make these clearer .
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