Example sentences of "[vb past] over [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It involved over 37,000 feet of rock climbing at all times of the day and night , and 160 miles of ell running to transport a baton from one climbing team to another . |
| 2 | He provided over 300 libraries between 1905 and his death in 1912 . |
| 3 | As I untangled the fishing tackle , I found over three feet of wire line , two hooks and five weights . |
| 4 | Tom came over eight days before the 1973 British Open started and he played his first two practice rounds with that great Australian golfer Bruce Crampton . |
| 5 | Then we rumbled over ten yards of hard ground to the next . |
| 6 | It included over 40 townlands on both sides of the Bann and despite their unfamiliar forms some of the names may strike a familiar chord : Knocknamocally , Ballynonaghie , Ballyvickranell , Edenidery , Taunagh , Mehain , Clonagh , Ballygaragan , Carricke , Garravaghy and Dromnasough . |
| 7 | It also recorded over 2,000 inquiries from employers on the centre 's computers . |
| 8 | We sold over 22,000 objects in two or three days . |
| 9 | The words tumbled over each other in her eagerness. ‘ 'T WOULD only be for a day or so while I try to get a message to the Queen . |
| 10 | He made over forty transcriptions of the sonnets ‘ as the best presents I could offer to those , who had in any way won my regard ’ , and in his own poetic experiments of the next few years found an important model in the work of the now-forgotten Wiltshire priest . |
| 11 | Bellamy led over 200 children on a nature trail around the grounds of the hostel before cutting the ribbon to declare the hostel officially open . |
| 12 | She passed over two reports with items marked in red . |
| 13 | ‘ Boy ’ Mould had served in France with 1 Squadron in 1939/40 , where he had shot down the first German aircraft to be claimed by R.A.F. fighters over the Western Front ; he had over eight victories to his credit at this time . |
| 14 | It had over 20 performances in Vienna alone , and brought Mozart 1,200 florins in the first two days . |
| 15 | We had over three hours before our train 's timetabled departure at 4 p.m. , which gave us a chance to look round Minehead , get a meal and try to find a place where we could taste a famous local product — scrumpy . |
| 16 | He wrote over 300 papers on the subject ; these pointed to the head-neck reflexes being the central controlling mechanism responsible for orienting the animal to his environment , both in assuming a posture for a particular purpose and also in restoring the animal to a resting posture after an action . |