Example sentences of "was [vb pp] over the " in BNC.
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| 31 | In 1913 , the Royal Flying Corps had 8 biplanes at Gailes and during the same year an airship was seen over the county for the first time . |
| 32 | He says , that was done over the phone ! |
| 33 | With the best will in the world , I am not responsible for what was said over the weekend or for what may to be a contradiction . |
| 34 | Another almost identical box , with attached headphones , was moved over the ground and a continual tone was emitted . |
| 35 | Nobody else was moved over the next couple of days so we talked endlessly about what it might mean . |
| 36 | In April 1990 a charging order under the Criminal Justice Act 1988 was made over the houses of Pottle and Randle to secure the payment to the Crown of a possible confiscation order under that Act . |
| 37 | Build around a forward-mounted Transit diesel engine and Land Rover axles and a mini-digger cab , the unit was built over the winter . |
| 38 | Staveley Works station was built over the Chesterfield Canal , and served Hollingwood and the Stanton & Staveley works which generated a good deal of freight traffic . |
| 39 | The first stone ridge was built over the Vltava in the 12th century . |
| 40 | After burial at Santiago , a church was built over the relics . |
| 41 | The posts were eventually taken down and themselves burnt before the mound was built over the top and the ring ditch dug around the outside . |
| 42 | His mother Brenda Telford , said : ‘ My lad was pushed over the edge . |
| 43 | Kyle 's mother was pushed over the wall by the impact . |
| 44 | Minutes later the Corner almost equalised when Dale Kelly 's goal-bound header was pushed over the bar by keeper Mark Gillespie . |
| 45 | Within a week of the outbreak of war the co-operation of the National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union was sought over the manning of merchant vessels requisitioned or chartered by the Admiralty and an agreement arrived at jointly with the Board of Trade . |
| 46 | What happened , happened up there , once , once that was lost on appeal , right , the whole of the handling of that by East Devon council just been poor , and then , what did they do , they decided to go for appeal , which was upheld over the garage . |
| 47 | Earlier , a big split was threatened over the language to be used about German reunification — with President Mitterrand and the Italian Prime Minister , Mr Giulio Andreotti , expressing opposition to a simple reference to German ‘ self-determination ’ . |
| 48 | The 52-year-old husband was slumped over the steering wheel of the Volvo . |
| 49 | She was slumped over the steering wheel of her car . |
| 50 | The pilot was slumped over the controls . |
| 51 | It was written over the entrance , gold letters on purple gloss on red brick . |
| 52 | The idea of the night being irrevocably jinxed for Rangers seemed in doubt when Ferguson 's cross was chested over the line by Johnston for the equaliser in the 50th minute . |
| 53 | The idea of the night being irrevocably jinxed for Rangers seemed in doubt when Ferguson 's cross was chested over the line by Johnston for the equaliser in the 50th minute . |
| 54 | The blade flashed as it was drawn over the leather . |
| 55 | The aggregating activity of the samples was measured over the linear portion of the calibration curve obtained with 5–50 pg of synthetic platelet activating factor . |
| 56 | Aggregating activity of the samples was measured over the linear portion of the calibration curve obtained with synthetic platelet activating factor . |
| 57 | A minimum of 7 mm lead shielding was used over the central area and over the body of each animal . |
| 58 | The partial blockade had caused severe economic hardship in Nepal , including shortages of food , fuel and medicine , since virtually all external trade was transported over the land border with India . |
| 59 | In those days , an animal was offered in sacrifice to God , and its blood was sprinkled over the people as a sign of the one blood of life shared between God and his people . |
| 60 | Of course , quite a lot of them do — putting down on paper what was agreed over the phone to be produced in evidence if the other side claims they never did , for example . |