Example sentences of "who [vb past] over [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour 's Doug Naysmith , Bristol city councillor who presided over privatisation of Bristol port , needs a six per cent swing to wipe out Michael Stern 's 6,952 majority . |
| 2 | It was the name of the ninth Muse , who presided over eloquence and heroic poetry . |
| 3 | They were the ones who f—ed over melody and did it in their own way , ’ said Bobby Schiffman of The Harlem Apollo . |
| 4 | Now here was a boy who listened stolidly while Hugo read to him some of the greatest literature in the world ; who yawned over Villon ; who stared out of the window longingly while Hugo read Maupassant or Flaubert . |
| 5 | Members of the new Cabinet who celebrated over lunch the next day were burdened by no such solemnity . |
| 6 | ‘ She was found out by a couple o' the local lads who went over Charin' Cross fer a good time . |
| 7 | Herod , who reigned over Palestine at the time , could not even claim to be a Jew by birth . |
| 8 | He was amongst those who defaulted over payment of the forced loan at Northampton in 1627 . |
| 9 | Another casualty was Gordon Ashworth , a senior aide to Peterson , who resigned over money paid to redecorate his house . |
| 10 | Beside him sat Latif Nassif Jassim , the former Information Minister , who had once promised to eat American pilots who bailed over Iraq . |