Example sentences of "which [vb past] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most notable among them were a Louis XVI ormolu-and-Wedgwood porcelain mounted clock thermometer and its companion barometer-thermometer attributed to Adam Weisweiler ( est. $150–200,000 ) which sold to a telephone bidder for $250,000 ( £138,900 ) and an amusing pair of painted jeux de loto ( essentially eighteenth-century bingo cards in their holders ) , which sold over the telephone for $60,000 ( £33,300 ) ( est. $20–30,000 ) . |
| 2 | He rode the rocking-horse , which moved over the lawn without effort . |
| 3 | As regards the US domestic market , these changes in profitability are opposite to those of concentration , which rose over the period . |
| 4 | The 54-year-old monster , which towered over the garden , was cut down on television by professional contractors , who safely lowered its limbs one be one . |
| 5 | Out of every hundred aircraft which ventured over the border , eighty-seven returned safely . |
| 6 | PARIS — The pilot of the UTA DC10 which exploded over the Sahara desert on 19 September , killing all 171 people on board , had previously complained of lax security on the Libreville to Paris route , according to a report in Le Canard Enchaine , writes Patrick Marnham . |
| 7 | A RUGBY fan broke her leg after ending up at the bottom of a ruck which spilled over the sideline . |
| 8 | Eric Cantona went as close as anyone when he tried a 40 yard lob which sailed over the goalkeeper 's head only to hit the bar and bounce into the grateful arms of Dmitri Kharine . |
| 9 | It was a dignity which triumphed over the unsightliness of the long upturned hooves , the fleshless ribs , the broken-down udder almost brushing the cobbles . |
| 10 | The Woman turned , pulling the whole of the little group round with her so that they faced the house , towards the mirror which hung over the sofa . |
| 11 | There was a bar selling alcoholic drinks and two milk bars , one at floor level , one in what had once been the balcony , and a huge multi-faceted glass ball which hung over the dance floor . |
| 12 | The rain slowed to a fine drizzle which hung over the countryside like a dirty curtain . |
| 13 | Tea had been laid in the blue drawing room , a vast room dominated by two huge chandeliers and an enormous portrait of Henry VIII after Holbein , which hung over the fireplace . |
| 14 | Harriet gave him her portrait , which hung over the chimney-piece at Croisset ; but it was of Gertrude that he was fonder . |
| 15 | Out here he fog bank which hung over the city had thinned to non-existence . |
| 16 | Matthew had acquired a tank which trundled over the carpet emitting small but sharp percussive explosions accompanied by a shower of sparks . |
| 17 | Hopes that harvesting which started over the weekend would continue , though , were thwarted by mid-week rain and a shortage of crops fully fit . |
| 18 | Flag of the Irish Republic which flew over the GPO during the fighting . |
| 19 | They set to sea in boats and cruisers ; one newspaper even hired a Lear jet , which flew over the area day after day . |
| 20 | The first Targa Florio was held on 6 May 1906 and that race , like all subsequent ones , was over a difficult and testing winding Sicilian course which varied over the years . |
| 21 | But what it did do was provide a unique workshop of the ideas that had been bubbling up in the years since the cracking of the ice in 1956 , and in a context which leapt over the boundaries of ‘ official ’ politics , whether mainstream , Marxist , anarchist , reformist , or Maoist . |
| 22 | Part of the track which went over the river Wey was supported by a ferro-concrete bridge — revolutionary in its day . |
| 23 | This is an ancient road , the middle one of the three Roman roads which went over the Pyrenees , though it is worth pursuing all the way to the frontier , in my view , only if you want to enter Spain ( the small , walled town of Jaca , half an hour or so 's drive down the other side , is extremely attractive ) . |
| 24 | This was the railway which crossed over the Corporation tramway just short of the Selby Road boundary . |
| 25 | The room which looked over the Embankment site of the building was a mix of his own and Civil Service furnishings . |
| 26 | Patrick took his tea and went up to the first floor , to the long landing window which looked over the village green . |
| 27 | He had rooms in the beautiful Pepys building , at the end which looked over the River Cam and across the river to some slum-like warehouses . |
| 28 | It did , however , tend to jam in damp or muddy conditions , and it suffered from feed blockages caused by the spring mechanism of the 47-round ammunition drum which fitted over the breech . |
| 29 | In fact , there were four distinct varieties , which he regarded as separate races , of subspecies , which had over a period of time become cut off from each other and ceased to interbreed . |
| 30 | They are primarily concerned with the use of letters rogatory , the device which had over the centuries become well-established in the practice of States , and not only those of the civil law tradition , and which remains central to the procedures for obtaining evidence from another jurisdiction . |