Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [adv] [vb pp] over " in BNC.

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1 But her plucky manner in the witness box clearly won over the jury of eight men and four women .
2 Packets leaving the wrapping machine still passed over the checkweigher as before but now , instead of merely passing or rejecting each pack , the computer captured the data it measured and performed various analyses including the average weight and standard deviation for each hour .
3 The name Babbidge still written over the doors .
4 Fresh from the indulgence of driving the fastest and most powerful Jaguar saloon ever built over several hundred kilometres of demanding roads , I was about to set off on a journey that would take me from one end of Europe to the other .
5 Flushed , lit from within , with her copper hair softly spread over her bare shoulders , she was exposing more flesh than she had realised .
6 In terms of relative costs , US competitiveness hardly changed over the sixties .
7 As instructed , the building was largely three-storey , but it stood on a high basement and was dominated by a spiky ventilation tower centrally placed over the War Department .
8 Abstracting from these difficult matters , an attractive approach to inequality would be to look at the lifetime purchasing power broadly defined over goods and services enjoyed by individuals , appropriately discounted to give a common basis for comparison .
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