Example sentences of "over [prep] a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Endill thought it over for a few moments . |
| 2 | Often the Phantasms — daemon-masked , each dabbed with different costly scents , and gowned in luminous silk appliquéd with lascivious emblems — would bomb around the broad upper avenues on their jet-trikes , and through almost deserted midnight malls , seeking stylised mayhem with another brat gang or hunting for an odour bar or an elegant brothel which they could take over for a few hours before fleeing just ahead of a Judge patrol . |
| 3 | The new Landrat of Gunzenhausen , a former Franconian bastion of National Socialism , wrote in his first monthly report after the end of the Third Reich , in August 1945 : ‘ Although the war has only been over for a few months , National Socialism is hardly ever spoken about , and when at all , only in a negative sense . |
| 4 | Studies were over for a few months . |
| 5 | Poured on to the plane , alone , Burton was humped for thirteen hours across the Atlantic , assuaged by alcohol ; stopped over for a few drinks in New York and then taken on an eleven-hour trip to Los Angeles which was made tolerable by more alcohol . |
| 6 | Our son Greg came over for a few days to do some business in England and to see his father . |
| 7 | It 's a wonderful opportunity , please do n't discard it out of hand because of pride or pique , just think it over for a few days and let me know your decision when you are ready . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But I 'll think I 'll just need to talk it over with a few people before we run it though . ’ |
| 9 | In the Auvergne , the major agriculture/conservation conflict is clearly in the plains , especially the extensive limagne north of Clermont , where intensive cereal and crop production has taken over from a former bocage ( hedge and pasture ) landscape . |
| 10 | On it , messages left over from a few days before Brian gave up the flat . |
| 11 | It was all over in a few minutes . |
| 12 | Battler opened up with the violin and it was all over in a few minutes . |
| 13 | It must have been all over in a few seconds . |
| 14 | It was over in a few seconds . |
| 15 | I just thought that the war would be fought far away , like the one in Abyssinia , and that it would be over in a few days , or weeks at the most . |
| 16 | The journey is a long one , but it is hurried over in a few words . |
| 17 | Wars had been fought before by the regular Army , and this one , it was supposed , would be the same : it would be over in a few months , it not weeks . |