Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact most outstanding problems were ironed out over the last couple of months , Goldstein says ; bug fixing remains . |
| 2 | In fact most outstanding problems were ironed out over the last couple of months , Goldstein says ; bug fixing remains . |
| 3 | After diagnosis of hypercalcaemia ( corrected serum calcium >2.85 mmol/L ) , 2–3 L of 0.9% sodium chloride were given intravenously over 8–12 h for rehydration . |
| 4 | Rather grudgingly a voice said , ‘ The Prime Minister ’ , and supporting voices were heard all over the room . |
| 5 | Your eyes were darting all over me , you could barely speak , your face was burning up with heat … ’ |
| 6 | Two days later , when thunderstorms were muttering over the Slieve Mish and the sea crows were circling lazily over the valley , her father and brothers came for her and took her up to Ballymacadoyle Hill . |
| 7 | Savings groups were formed all over the country and children ran their own campaigns in schools . |
| 8 | Black rain clouds were scudding in over the Thames . |
| 9 | The sleeves of his pale blue shirt were rolled up over his muscly forearms . |
| 10 | During Friday 20 May and Saturday the 21st the fierce chase continued , during which some of the French ships were scattered all over the Channel ; a few , like the Spanish Armada before them , only escaped by sailing right round the British Isles . |
| 11 | He loved Meli so much his ashes were scattered all over her grave |
| 12 | Every St Kildan family owned a number of cleits and they were scattered all over the island , many of them convenient to the bird cliffs because ‘ fresh ’ birds were much heavier than those that had dried out , and everything had to be carried back to the village eventually . |
| 13 | The floor was covered by a large mosaic and I was really getting interested in some of the antics of the guys with beards who were scattered all over it , when I heard the tap-tap of her feet in the distance together with a heavier , more measured tread . |
| 14 | He was standing next to her pebble , yelling through a megaphone at the other beetles who were scattered all over the sheet measuring up circles drawn round all the various pebbles . |
| 15 | On the other hand , its members were scattered all over the United Kingdom , which made a northern town central . |
| 16 | Extensive geological and geophysical surveys were carried out over the next two years , and the governments negotiated with an international group of banks interested in financing the construction of the tunnel . |
| 17 | Many windows were shattered all over Edinburgh , including many at Donaldson 's — its most grievous loss was perhaps the oriel window in the chapel famed in Scotland as one of its earliest figure-stained windows . |
| 18 | Vast amounts of capital and capacity were installed all over the world in expectation of continuing rising demand and no technological change . |
| 19 | Not that he could have avoided his post-breakfast greeting — they were daubed all over South Africa 's team bus , parked far too handily outside their Leicester hotel . |
| 20 | We had a bit of a party in the Met Office that night , tearful farewells were said all over the place , and I departed the next morning with my kit and a bad headache , ready for whatever Fate had in store for me . |
| 21 | They were exhibited all over the world , and appeared in London at the Egyptian Hall in 1829 . |
| 22 | He felt guilty thoughts were written all over his face . |
| 23 | Reporters and photographers were swarming all over the sanatorium that day . |
| 24 | His two string quartets , likewise , though both numbered Op. 22 , were separated by over 30 years . |
| 25 | ‘ But I felt so guilty — just as if my parents were looking disapprovingly over my shoulder the whole time ! |
| 26 | After 1313 all works produced by Parisian goldsmiths and enamellers bore a hallmark depicting a fleur-de-lis within a lozenge and these objects were disseminated all over Europe , not least to England . |
| 27 | " We were accepted all over that year , " Bland said . |
| 28 | The Business Skills Seminars for small businesses were attended by over 2,300 people during the year . |
| 29 | Twenty , 50 or 100 mg were infused intravenously over a period of 90 minutes . |
| 30 | Both were shot down over Syria by Vichy French Dewoitine 520s of GC III/6 on 5 July 1941 . |