Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The small but very fine collection of Old Master paintings , drawings and works of art had been built up over the last decade on the encouragement and advice of Metropolitan Museum curators . |
| 2 | Whatever happened , the Virgin Group was secure , but the airline , 500 jobs , everything that had been built up over the last eighteen months , was suddenly in jeopardy through no fault of anyone at Virgin . |
| 3 | Employees ' attitudes er were fairly stable , fairly stable and some of the work that was done was so highly skilled er that it needed a craftsman 's experience to be able to get to that stage of being able to turn a job you know , to very fine limits , or to grind an objective to absolutely no limits , or to , to assemble a job with all the skill and the know-how that had been built up over his twenty five or thirty years ' experience you know , along with his colleagues . |
| 4 | A reputation had been built up over several years for the use of computers in the fields of manpower planning , personnel statistics and other industrial relations applications . |
| 5 | Interestingly , the two semicircular towers had been built out over the filled ditch of the earlier rampart , as had the semioctagonal external tower at the north-west corner . |
| 6 | Levels of nitrates in tap water had been rising slowly over the past decade , most of it leaching into groundwater from farmers fields , where it 's used as a fertilizer . |
| 7 | The light in the sky is there by courtesy of the vanished sun , but the tops of the mountains are still golden , as though honey had been poured lightly over them . |
| 8 | Twenty minutes later the guest speaker , Alex Campbell ( Newcastle upon Tyne ) arrived ( his train had been delayed by over two hours ) and the audience was entertained with a lecture/demonstration on Instant fire . |
| 9 | It contained various bits of junk that had been stored there over the years , but nothing was even remotely useful in the present crisis . |
| 10 | Towards the end of the 19th century , a crisis had been building up over the names of organic compounds . |
| 11 | While his loving note helped to sooth her misgivings , it was difficult to control the inner turmoil which had been building up over the months . |
| 12 | These were Wilson and Castle 's response to the ‘ unofficial strike problem ’ which had been building up over the '60s but had acquired particular prominence in 1968 with the publication of the Donovan Commission 's report . |
| 13 | It took him nearly an hour to assemble the rest of the stick who had been dragged all over the desert by their parachutes . |
| 14 | The identifying symbols had been placed all over her dress , and included one in an area which seemed anatomically surprising . |
| 15 | Almost concurrently , a report came from Bombay that the Odonata had been observed all over India , feeding on the corpses of Parsis . |
| 16 | But long ago , in 1946 , the questing and the questioning had become almost unbearable , and I knew that to keep my sanity I must force myself to an arbitrary conclusion : I would believe the least terrible of terrible possibilities — that the plane had been shot down over the Channel by enemy action . |
| 17 | ‘ The sheets had been pulled down over her long legs . |
| 18 | What had been happening financially over the last five or six years is unclear but in 1932 the situation was regarded as ‘ serious ’ and it was to continue so ( as with other Clubs in the Depression ) until the late 1930's . |
| 19 | Only problems were that one of them had had been snapped off at the legs and been reglued direct to the base , presumably in an effort to replicate Bremner 's short stature , and also in an effort to simulate Albert Johanneson ( or was it Gerry ? ? ) brown paint had been splurged all over one player , rendering his kit a mucky pink . |
| 20 | More recently , it was impossible to forget how he personally had been let down over the reserves pledged for the first phase at Verdun . |
| 21 | It was reported that the final signing had been held up over successive objections raised by Taylor , and that he eventually signed only under pressure from Capt. Blaise Compaore , the head of state of Burkina , a country which , according to some reports , had previously been an important source of arms supplies to Taylor 's faction . |
| 22 | The concluding rounds of the peace negotiations , which had been held sporadically over the past 20 months , began under UN auspices in Mexico on Nov. 25 following the declaration of a unilateral FMLN ceasefire on Nov. 16 and recommenced in New York on Dec. 16 ; Pérez de Cuéllar , whose term of office expired only a few minutes after the signature of the agreement , had made the issue of peace in El Salvador a personal crusade . |
| 23 | Investigations into the activities of this particular gang had been carried out over a very long period and they had been kept under constant surveillance by our officers who were thus able to feed us all the necessary information towards a successful interception . |
| 24 | At the beginning of the month it was announced that of 1,760 extremist attacks in the period from the beginning of January to Nov. 8 , 1992 , 1,000 had been carried out over the previous two months . |
| 25 | Louise had hardly been out of his thoughts for a moment during the past six weeks while the relieving force , under the command of General Sinclair , had been advancing circumspectly over the plains . |
| 26 | On Jan. 25 the government claimed that the rebels had suffered many casualties and had been driven back over the border into Uganda . |
| 27 | We went back upstairs to find that all the contents of our lockers had been thrown out over the floors , mixed up , trampled on , and that the lockers themselves had been hurled around the room , across the beds , which had been stripped , and out of the doors . |
| 28 | They linked this with a national rent rebate scheme , rationalizing the variety of local schemes that had been set up over the previous decade , to offset the costs to the poorer tenants . |
| 29 | The geostationary communications satellites placed high above the Pacific to link the banking and trading centres of South-East Asia , Japan and Australasia with those of North America preside over a ‘ window ’ of the planetary territory of geometrically fixed size — rather as if a cone , a dunce 's cap , the height of which is equivalent to the altitude necessary for a satellite 's geostationary orbit , had been set down over the ocean . |
| 30 | She noted , she said with a pained expression , that output from the UK Vehicle Division of United Motors had been falling steadily over the previous ten years . |