Example sentences of "which [vb past] over [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most notable among them were a Louis XVI ormolu-and-Wedgwood porcelain mounted clock thermometer and its companion barometer-thermometer attributed to Adam Weisweiler ( est. $150–200,000 ) which sold to a telephone bidder for $250,000 ( £138,900 ) and an amusing pair of painted jeux de loto ( essentially eighteenth-century bingo cards in their holders ) , which sold over the telephone for $60,000 ( £33,300 ) ( est. $20–30,000 ) . |
| 2 | He rode the rocking-horse , which moved over the lawn without effort . |
| 3 | It was a dignity which triumphed over the unsightliness of the long upturned hooves , the fleshless ribs , the broken-down udder almost brushing the cobbles . |
| 4 | The rain slowed to a fine drizzle which hung over the countryside like a dirty curtain . |
| 5 | Harriet gave him her portrait , which hung over the chimney-piece at Croisset ; but it was of Gertrude that he was fonder . |
| 6 | In fact , there were four distinct varieties , which he regarded as separate races , of subspecies , which had over a period of time become cut off from each other and ceased to interbreed . |
| 7 | It 's a well-founded Dales village , mentioned in the Domesday Book , with a fascinating and somewhat turbulent , if bizarre history Cotherstone Castle , which loomed over the confluence of the rivers Tees and Balder , is now just a heap of rubble . |
| 8 | Karl , as it were , added the italics as he cast a speculative eye over a huge grey building which loomed over the avenue like a battleship over a flotilla of cargo boats and from which , in the still , clear air , hung a vast flag , red , with a golden hammer and sickle emblazoned on it . |