Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These references , which were given over the period continually to 1984 , undoubtedly had an effect on the ability of Berg to engage in large scale bill discounting transactions with other banks . ’ |
| 2 | Hunters were gathering over the dome . |
| 3 | So much so that the waves were crashing over the boat , and the boat was filling up with water . |
| 4 | Both Billy and Tony had praised his coolness , and they were puzzling over the fate of their confederates . |
| 5 | As a result of her involvement in the policy group all 46 practices in Newcastle were consulted over the draft discharge and assessment arrangements and had an opportunity to influence them . |
| 6 | Cyclamen corms that were resting over the summer can be restarted now . |
| 7 | Studies using X-ray analysis have shown that some paintings , such as Renoir 's The umbrellas , were painted over a period of years , with several definite alterations and distinct stages involved in the painting . |
| 8 | Scamp turned to reach down into one of the boxes of groceries that were scattered over the floor but I did n't see what he was after as Nevil was lifting me up by the shoulders . |
| 9 | While a large number of the items taken from Germany are held in special State-run storage facilities and are easy to work with , the majority of works removed from Russia were scattered over the world in the post-war period ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Then she flew high over the site of Callanish above the men and the fallen bodies of her kind which were scattered over the site . |
| 11 | From being able to cope just about ) with everyday life they were tipped over the edge into breakdown , from which only a few were able to re-emerge . |
| 12 | Soon they were laughing over the melodrama of it ; how quickly he had seemed to arrive at death 's door , and how absurdly soon afterwards he was stuffing his face and bouncing with health . |
| 13 | Hundreds of miners from the western valleys were walking over the hill to the stricken village . |
| 14 | John Byrne , in The Headhunters , describes the British Steel search in detail : more than a hundred candidates from Europe , North America , South Africa and Australia were interviewed over the course of ten months . |
| 15 | ‘ Between 2½ and 3,000 passengers were attracted over the weekend showing that preserved diesel traction has a great following and a place in railway history . ’ |
| 16 | The pair were quizzed over the abduction of a woman who underwent a terrifying 15-hour ordeal after calling a cab to collect her from a pub . |
| 17 | Her black dress , her underclothes were hung over a chair . |
| 18 | A court has been told that the idea for an elaborate murder plot , in which a couple were pushed over a cliff in a blazing car , may have come from a film on satellite television . |
| 19 | Three letters were written over the pseudonym of ‘ Philippos of London ’ , two were signed by ‘ Zoophilus of Birmingham ’ , one by John Elderton of Bath , one by ‘ S ’ of London , and one by J.H. ( undoubtedly Huntingford ) . |
| 20 | The fabric masks were built over an underskull frame . |
| 21 | Sometimes if there was a certain amount of urgency due to bad weather , or perhaps a very important operation , the observations were collected over the telephone link-up , with the Met Officer in charge listening in . |
| 22 | John Szarkowski wrote in the preface to the first volume : " Atget 's own prints were made over a period of many years , on a variety of photographic papers . |
| 23 | The office windows were cleaned over the weekend . |
| 24 | Four passes were needed over the course , but on the first three attempts engine trouble prevented completion , even though 314 mph was clocked on one pass . |
| 25 | He had a grey fringe round back and sides , although a few wisps that had once been fair or ginger were combed over the top . |
| 26 | A couple of days later the answers were supplied over the phone , indicating that this would indeed be the case . |
| 27 | Regions of interest ( ROIs ) were drawn over the liver , spleen , lungs , and left kidney ensuring that the liver ROI excluded the descending aorta and right kidney ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ We were shown over the house . |
| 29 | Loved so much that when he died , his ashes , on his special instruction , were sprinkled over a rose bush he had planted in her memory at a crematorium . |
| 30 | The favoured species , if that is the right adjective , tended to be locusts , pigs , and cattle , but Edward P. Evans , in his marvellous book , The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals , published in 1906 , lists numerous others , including eels , weevils , dolphins , and turtle-doves , that were prosecuted over the period AD 824–1906 . |