Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] over a " in BNC.
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| 31 | But words , acquired slowly over a lifetime , are part of a different set of perceptions of the world , they have grown with us , they restrict what we see and how we see it . |
| 32 | David Swan fell backwards over a chair , clutching his knee in agony . |
| 33 | Blood jetted from his nostrils and Jimmy went backwards over a desk , taking a computer console with him . |
| 34 | It all took just over a bio-day , after which we drifted down from the Valve and touched ground at the spaceport . |
| 35 | For Constantine , in short , the Messiah was precisely what the Messiah had been for Jews in Palestine at the dawn of the Christian era — a ruler , a sovereign , a warrior leader like David and Solomon , who reigned wisely over a temporal realm , established unity in his domains , consolidated a nation and people with divine sanction to support him . |
| 36 | A photograph of Hitler stared benignly over a table spread with a white cloth . |
| 37 | Consequently , I fell straight over a bench , + bruised my skin nastily . |
| 38 | He said , He saw one boy hit one of these tops and it went straight over a house top . |
| 39 | The seasons , if they are important enough , can grab people 's attention in the way that you would n't if the programmes just went out over a period of 16 or 20 weeks . |
| 40 | The trouble which a political interest could encounter , however , came when friends of the political interest fell out over a choice of minister , and in a country which took its religion seriously that was all too easy to do , and that in turn opened the road to intrigue by political enemies . |
| 41 | And er we fell out over a fall really or whatever it was . |
| 42 | At the front , two high curved windows gave a view of the square garden while at the rear one huge expanse of glass looked out over a stone wall with three niches , each containing a marble statue ; Venus , naked , one hand delicately shielding the mons Veneris , one pointing at her left nipple , a second female figure , half robed and wearing a wreath of flowers and , between them , Apollo with his lyre , laurel-crowned . |
| 43 | We looked out over a bare open landscape , its thin grass patched with sandy stretches . |
| 44 | It looked out over a garden so long overgrown it was returning to jungle . |
| 45 | The Cretaceous genus Inoceramus sometimes grew well over a metre in length ; fragments of this particular genus are frequently important components of the soft , white Cretaceous limestone known as chalk . |
| 46 | People would not welcome a move from their home and if closure went ahead over a long period of time staff would inevitably leave . |
| 47 | The remains of an open-caste mine , shut down over a decade earlier , lay to the west . |
| 48 | They emerged gradually over a period of half a century , culminating in his book Two New Sciences , which was first published in 1638 , almost a century after the publication of Copernicus 's major work . |
| 49 | a crazy pie in the sky idea dreamt up over a few beers finally became a reality today and a new world record . |
| 50 | As Major leaned forward over a desk , the backdrop of people walking in St James ' Park could have fooled anyone into thinking it was Number 10 . |
| 51 | Le Dimanche — Sunday afternoon whiled away over a game of cards . |
| 52 | I just had just over a pound |
| 53 | yeah , well yeah I mean one of the blokes I he said just over a pair of |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | After 1560 , this new English church was engaged in the task of establishing its traditions and defining its boundaries , a process which lasted well over a century and was only effectively completed by the end of the seventeenth century . |
| 57 | I bought the sandwich and carefully peeled away the Cellophane , but just as I lifted it to my mouth the train lurched violently over a siding , making the bottles clatter in the drinks trolley and causing all the meatballs to jump off the bun , like sailors abandoning a burning ship . |
| 58 | Chinese students sent to university in Russia demonstrated noisily on their cross-country train journeys and , on one occasion that shocked Khrushchev deeply , defecated all over a Mongolian station platform . |
| 59 | At the back there is a horizontal belt sleeve which allows it to be attached to a belt up to 70mm wide and there is also a vertical sleeve 50mm wide which permits it to be worn on its side or slid down over a vertical post for use as a permanent fixture at a centre or clubhouse . |
| 60 | Visual illusions are an excellent illustration , in fact , of the division between a specialized and autonomous mechanism for seeing and the cognitive system which determines whether we should believe what we see , as Helmholtz pointed out over a century ago . |