Example sentences of "over [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ealhfrith must have been about 20 years old at the time of the battle of the Winwaed , after which he became king of Deira , taking over the former territory of his cousin , Oethelwald . |
| 2 | The compounds , known as gamma linolenic acid ( GLA ) derivatives , are produced by a British-Canadian company , Scotia Pharmaceuticals , which six years ago took over the former fish drying factory at Callanish on the west coast of Lewis as its principal production unit . |
| 3 | Argos , the high street catalogue shopping shop , is to take over the former Tesco Home and Wear store in Newborough , Scarborough , which closed five months ago . |
| 4 | Time and again , Gadarene management spreads the damage : many boards of directors as one swine plunge over the same edge , ignoring the well-established fact that the conventional wisdom is usually stupid . |
| 5 | His execution was probably a mistake , for it deprived the north of its only effective military leader , and left Edward little option but to take over the same policy and conclude a truce . |
| 6 | rattlers titter over the same joke . |
| 7 | Anyway I was going over a few things in my mind . |
| 8 | No doubt they would send over a few H.E . |
| 9 | Turning over a few leaves . |
| 10 | ‘ Someone tried to run him over a few hours ago . |
| 11 | Kayley Desmond , 14 months , had suffered three respiratory attacks where she suddenly stopped breathing over a few hours , Nurse Maxine Motley told Nottingham Crown Court . |
| 12 | After a while , Corbett nodded , handed over a few coins and left , his face wreathed in a complacent smile . |
| 13 | If you turn over a few chapters in Matthew , into chapter fourteen , you 've got another er watery illustration there , it 's , Jesus is coming towards the disciples , he walking on the water ! |
| 14 | ‘ We would like to go over a few points relating to the Livesey murder , ’ Bragg said evenly . |
| 15 | I WAS IN the office checking over a few invoices and trying to locate the squeak on my swivel chair when the phone rang . |
| 16 | An Experiment ( 5 ) Extending Over a Few Days |
| 17 | Being of a so-called good family does n't mean much these days , and the sort of money required to keep things ticking over a few years back does n't get you anywhere now . |
| 18 | Picture a once decent apartment building in the Bronx , New York , a part of the city where poverty , drug abuse , AIDS , and prostitution abound , and witness over a few years how it is transformed into a miserable squat and ultimately bulldozed to make way for a new police station . |
| 19 | ‘ I sometimes wonder what people must think to hear him haggling over a few dollars . |
| 20 | Second , the scope of what New Historicism involves is continuously changing , and the conflicts between contending views are often localised over a few issues . |
| 21 | About 20 trainees may be brought together for about ten days spread over a few months , interspersed with more in-bureau case study exercises and observation . |
| 22 | An old man sat over a half pint of stout . |