Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [vb pp] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gale said : ‘ I am gutted over this . |
| 2 | I am shown over a large and productive school garden in Lesotho by the teachers and pupils who created it . |
| 3 | Pears said : ‘ Obviously , I am downhearted over missing the trip . |
| 4 | ‘ I was hit over the head . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I was only thinking I was born over there . ’ |
| 6 | I was born over the road . |
| 7 | ‘ Then I was contacted over the phone by a company in Rufford who agreed to sell the car for £50 . |
| 8 | When I was approached over Westland , it was by some of the banks and institutions that had been involved in the John Brown affair . |
| 9 | But after almost everyone had tiptoed tipsily to bed , one couple — or so I was told over breakfast next day — stayed behind in the darkened dome-car and made love softly , to the rhythm of the rails . |
| 10 | Apparently 'e 's took over there fer good . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , but how many of these wonderfully high-paid jobs have you been offered over the past eighteen months ? ’ |
| 12 | And the same perhaps if you 're exposed over a |
| 13 | She felt as if she were suspended over a chasm between a past that was dark and terrifying and a future that inexorably beckoned . |
| 14 | ‘ She 's gotten over all that . |
| 15 | But Carol said she is baffled over how the girls came to have such good singing voices . |
| 16 | A divorced woman can only use her former husband 's contribution record to establish her right to the basic pension and only provided she contributes in her own right as soon as the marriage ends and she does not remarry ( unless she is divorced over the age of 60 ) . |
| 17 | Her life-long friend , Catherine Quinn , 23 , escaped serious injury because she had bent down to pick up a 20p piece , and she was flung over hand railings . |
| 18 | She was slumped over the steering wheel of her car . |
| 19 | When she was hit over the head with a brick and put off work for four months , she came back for more . |
| 20 | She had her backstage duties to attend to , and when she was was n't in front of the footlights she was hunched over the book in the prompt corner . |
| 21 | Her hairstyle was a bizarre pile of curls heaped somewhat haphazardly on the top of her head , and she was crouched over her stomach , clutching it most convincingly . |
| 22 | This month 's Top Ten features the best utilities we 're reviewed over the past 18 months . |
| 23 | We 've had quite a busy afternoon , Mr Andropulos , and at the moment we 're anchored over a plane that crashed into the sea just about the time we were receiving your SOS . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ We were shown over the house . |
| 25 | Fall-rise and rise-fall tones , however , can be quite difficult to recognise when they are extended over tails , since their characteristic pitch movements are often broken up or distorted by the structure of the syllables they occur on . |
| 26 | The main concern of this chapter is to complete the description of intonational form , including analysis of perhaps the most difficult aspect , that of recognising fall-rise and rise-fall tones when they are extended over a number of syllables . |
| 27 | Often such a panel gives early warning of changes in public opinion where they are consulted over several years . |
| 28 | Today they are run over enclosed circuits and NASCAR races are now among the most popular in the United States . |
| 29 | From poverty to Giorgio Armani takes no time at all , and in that brief time , if there is some uncertainty and a few wrong turns , they are contemplated over elaborate meals in good restaurants . |
| 30 | They are laid over the existing floor surface ; most are tongued-and-grooved , so only occasional mailing or clipping is required to hold them in place . |