Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his death his empire could barely be sustained by the new rulers ( including Charles the Bald and Charles the Fat — is it possible to hold an empire together when the populace is taking the mickey out of you to that extent ? ) and crumbled away over a period of two centuries . |
| 2 | I cut off the path proper and charged up over a dune and down its other side to where the service pipe carrying the water and electricity to the house appears out of the sand and crosses the creek . |
| 3 | Stamping their hopelessly outsize boots , they trudged in single file out of the gutted , white-stone church and slogged off over a ditch away from the barricade . |
| 4 | Bank overdraft Flexible borrowing up to a certain ceiling for people with bank accounts , usually without security , and paid off over a few months , but can be extended over several years ; interest , calculated each day on how much the account is overdrawn that day , fluctuates in line with bank base rates ( usually about two per cent higher ) . |
| 5 | The potato starch was dyed in separate batches of red , blue and green , then mixed together in smaller quantities and sprinkled evenly over a glass plate with a tacky varnished coating . |
| 6 | The potato starch was dyed in separate batches of red , blue and green , then mixed together in smaller quantities and sprinkled evenly over a glass plate with a tacky varnished coating . |