Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] [vb pp] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence the keen interest in this result and the fierceness of the battle which has been fought here over the last few weeks . |
| 2 | The concluding rounds of the peace negotiations , which had been held sporadically over the past 20 months , began under UN auspices in Mexico on Nov. 25 following the declaration of a unilateral FMLN ceasefire on Nov. 16 and recommenced in New York on Dec. 16 ; Pérez de Cuéllar , whose term of office expired only a few minutes after the signature of the agreement , had made the issue of peace in El Salvador a personal crusade . |
| 3 | Thus there was a confusing number of elements on earth , above it and below it which contributed to the afterlife , representing ideas which had been brought together over a long period of time . |
| 4 | The motor of this growth has been the rapid spread of corporate computerization ( and also personal computers among the better off ) and personal receivers , the relative prices of which have been reduced substantially over time . |
| 5 | Bankings which have been torn apart over the last two centuries and then rebuilt and rebuilt again may have to be moved back to take the sting out of the pile-driving force of the river in spate . |
| 6 | In the last 21 years the British state has developed a range of counter-insurgency techniques which have been exported all over the world : ‘ special units ’ such as the SAS , sectarian shoot-to-kill squads , political laws , special courts , media censorship and new styles of torture which leave no mark . |
| 7 | It took him nearly an hour to assemble the rest of the stick who had been dragged all over the desert by their parachutes . |
| 8 | oh , right oh then , she said it 's been done all over the country |
| 9 | ‘ Apparently it 's been splashed all over the Standard this evening . |
| 10 | His predecessor in the position commented : " He 's been dragged all over the company . |