Example sentences of "was [verb] over [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What is it ? ’ he answered , standing , looking across to where the captain was kneeling over the fallen man . |
| 2 | The smoke from the incinerator made Harry blink and cough , but Morpurgo , who was stooped over the very top of it , seemed unaffected and still he paid his visitor no heed . |
| 3 | " One day a neighbour opposite came to tell me my little boa was hanging over the other side of the railings on our landing . |
| 4 | She was hanging over the wrought-iron balcony above the gardens , pointing to the pink and white marquees flapping gently in the breeze like grounded hot-air balloons . |
| 5 | Marco was stepping over the spasming limb as if the robot was n't there . |
| 6 | I was sailing the Pacific , or a character in a surrealist painting ; often I was walking over the red shale past one football pitch after another , with goal-posts stretching as far as the eye could see , like white crosses over the fields of Arnhem . |
| 7 | When it erupted around 75 000 a BP an estimated 2000 km 3 of material was dispersed over a wide area of the East Indies . |
| 8 | The foil was wound on a supply spool from which it was fed over a flat surface on to a take-up spool at a speed proportional to time . |
| 9 | A taper was applied over a sliding scale of income , but on average the formula worked out so that most single parents would be able to earn an additional £12 without losing benefit entitlement . |
| 10 | Brussels Cathedral ( 490 ) was built over a long period . |
| 11 | This was built over a long period — both Peter Parler and Rejsek worked on it . |
| 12 | A Face of War was shot over a 97-day period , and portrays the experiences of Mike Company , 3rd Battalion , 7th Marine Regiment ; during this period Jones was wounded twice and one of his photographers once . |
| 13 | We arrived at an other dam around noon ; water was rushing over the huge rocks and it was too risky to try to paddle across so the canoes were lined across . |
| 14 | The aggregating activity of the samples was measured over the linear portion of the calibration curve obtained with 5–50 pg of synthetic platelet activating factor . |
| 15 | Aggregating activity of the samples was measured over the linear portion of the calibration curve obtained with synthetic platelet activating factor . |
| 16 | A minimum of 7 mm lead shielding was used over the central area and over the body of each animal . |
| 17 | Another orange powder was dusted over the upper part of the body . |
| 18 | The closure of the regional offices was phased over an 18-month period and affected 435 staff . |
| 19 | In talks between Gorbachev and West German Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl on July 15-16 , 1990 , agreement was reached over a united Germany being free to join NATO [ see p. 37659 ] . |
| 20 | On a previous occasion , when he was flying over the stricken HMS SHEFFIELD , nine-tenths of his negatives had been removed . |
| 21 | At relaparotomy a large bile duct defect was seen , located 1.5 cm proximal to the cystic duct and a Roux-en-Y loop was anastomosed over the perforated area . |
| 22 | While it was stretched over the whole length of imperial communications , its most dangerous possible rival was the more easily concentrated French fleet ; the prospect of a descent on the Channel ports still preoccupied the Admiralty . |
| 23 | PHILIPPE ROZIER , who has just finished a three-month ban after Oscar Minotiere was found over the permitted limit of the painkiller , butazolidine , rode the same horse to victory for France in the Euro Horse Trophy in Gothenberg yesterday , writes Alan Smith . |
| 24 | Any piece of rotten meat that could still be found in the enclave was slipped over an improvised fish hook , attached to a rope and hurled over the parapet in the vain hope of catching a jackal or a pariah dog that might swallow it . |
| 25 | The ladder was laid over the slimy surface of the marsh to the car , and the rope tossed to the three frightened men inside . |
| 26 | Electrification was announced over the eighteen-mile stretch between Sanderstead and East Grinstead ( but excluding the Uckfield branch ) . |
| 27 | Our flight was announced over the loud speakers and we made our way through lots of small passages until we were on the plane . |
| 28 | The unmistakable shape of a turkey vulture was soaring over the rocky ridge below which the jumbled boulders of the mysterious ‘ stone runs ’ flowed in great ‘ rivers ’ down the hillsides and out on to almost level ground . |
| 29 | At the Olympic Games in 1908 , the marathon was run over the unusual distance of 26 miles 385 yards . |
| 30 | His scepticism appeared born out , and a shadow was cast over the final communiqué ( featuring commitments to the 1975 Helsinki Declaration , and institutionalizing annual Balkans conferences ) , by the news that Albania 's foremost writer , Ismail Kadare , had defected on Oct. 25 to France [ see this page ] . |