Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] over [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rayleen did n't find anything else broken , though she seemed convinced I 'd been run over by a steamroller . |
| 2 | Yes that , I think that 's possibly true , er , I was talking to Cambridge there about oh fifteen , twenty minutes ago and they said it was raining with them , and then they 'd been talking over to somebody over in Coventry and it 's , it 's snowing there |
| 3 | We thought he 'd been knocked over by a hit and run driver . ’ |
| 4 | She blinked and looked demurely down at the grey and red carpet which squelched across the floor like a rabbit that had been run over by a lorry . |
| 5 | I gave myself a brisk tub down with a towel — when I saw it in daylight it looked as though it had been run over by a lorry on a muddy building site — and changed every stitch of clothing . |
| 6 | The Pa. stood for Pennsylvania , and the machines had been sent over as part of the Marshall Plan to get Europe back on its feet and wearing nylons just like the Americans . |
| 7 | He said at Dumfries Sheriff Court that he and his friend had gone to the upstairs lavatory in the dormitory building about half-an-hour after going to bed when they had been called over to the girls ' room . |
| 8 | The room was already warm and the furniture shone as if all the pieces had been gone over with a damp cloth . |
| 9 | It proved to be a surprisingly accurate account of what in the event did happen , and is outlined here to illustrate the way in which , in one corner of Oxfordshire , changes which had been argued over for a decade could be effected in a relatively short time . |
| 10 | Although until April 1980 it was illegal for beneficiaries to sell land , researchers found evidence of land being sold and also of farms that had been turned over to sharecropping . |
| 11 | By 1863 , he too had gone and Kings Mill had been turned over to the manufacture of pins , an industry that was to become important for Painswick . |
| 12 | By the 1850s , Freames Mill had been turned over to the manufacture of pins by Perkins , Critchley and Marmont , who were there for around a decade and who later operated on a much larger scale at Wimberley Mills . |
| 13 | This said that Soviet historians had recently discovered documents revealing that in April-May 1940 all but 394 inmates of the three camps had been turned over to NKVD administrations in Smolensk , Voroshilovgrad and Kalinin , and had been " never again mentioned in NKVD statistical accounts " . |
| 14 | As of late July both camps were surrounded by army units and Murr insisted that the blockade would continue until all heavy and medium-calibre weaponry had been turned over to the government . |
| 15 | The whole of the floor of one of the big sheds had been turned over to the making of the signs . |
| 16 | By midday the Common had been turned over with meticulous care , the pools dragged and the frogmen sent down . |
| 17 | There was danger , too , underfoot : the path had been ploughed over in many places and here and there were lumps of frozen earth covered with snow , and slippery . |
| 18 | By now , thanks to the Luxembourg Compromise , France was less fearful of the European Commission ; the completion of the customs union led to hopes among the Six of further developments in the EEC ; and there was still the need to settle the long-term finance of CAP , a question which had been papered over after de Gaulle 's ‘ empty chair ’ policy . |
| 19 | She dragged herself from the sofa and listlessly prepared herself some lunch , making do with bread and Camembert cheese and some of the pâté which had been left over from the night before . |
| 20 | The cotton magnates had gone elsewhere and their villas had been taken over as government offices and army posts . |
| 21 | Having changed from sweat-sodden clothes , I found that , as the hotel had been taken over for the evening by a wedding party , I and an English couple had a dining-room to ourselves . |
| 22 | However , Frogmarsh Mill 's long involvement in the cloth trade was drawing to a close , for by 1863 it had been taken over for the manufacture of pins by the firm of Perkins , Critchley and Marmont . |
| 23 | There was an army display on for one day only , Mrs Blakey had said at breakfast : the car-park behind the fish-packing station had been taken over for it . |
| 24 | Outside the party the syndicalists had formed a " Left " of the unions and this had been taken over to some extent by the Communist Party of Great Britain , founded in 1920 . |
| 25 | The school is a complex of large , red-bricked barrack blocks , which had been taken over during the war ( happily unoccupied ) by the American Army . |
| 26 | This bought another East End brewery into the family tree , the Wenlock Brewery , in Wenlock Road , Shoreditch , just off the City Road , which had been taken over by Bass in 1961 and closed the following year . |
| 27 | Before that , however , in 1958 , the year the Albion brewery celebrated its 150th anniversary , Mann Crossman and Paulin had been taken over by Watney 's . |
| 28 | In May the SAS were sent in to storm the Iranian Embassy in London which had been taken over by armed gunmen . |
| 29 | The bridge was pedestrian-only and had been taken over by assorted buskers playing jazz or folk music . |
| 30 | Even in the mid-1980s , after major parts of its operations had been taken over by other bodies , it still employed 13,500 people . |