Example sentences of "and [vb pp] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just talk to them , find out what they 've seen and heard over the last couple of weeks , ’ the DI said . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've put Mr Trumper 's things in the bedroom and checked over the flat . |
| 3 | a fiery fellow ( the salamander was popularly supposed to be able to live in fire ) ; also , a circular iron plate which is heated and placed over a pudding or other dish to brown it ( OED ) . |
| 4 | He moved away from the spot on which he had prayed and gazed over Crummock Water . |
| 5 | Half-way along it , Ember whipped round to yell , ‘ Go , Jez ! ’ and vaulted over the hand-rail . |
| 6 | The man burst into the Alpine Cafe in Marine Drive , Southport , and vaulted over the counter to snatch £90 in cash . |
| 7 | Police issued the photofit of a man who burst into the Alpine Cafe in Marine Drive , Southport , and vaulted over the counter . |
| 8 | While Dylan 's is the voice of death , despair , loss , wrack and ruin , Young 's call , seemingly polished and matured over the years , speaks of hope , regeneration and humility , reaching a peak on the heartbreaking beauty of ‘ Such A Woman ’ . |
| 9 | Millions Of Honey opened Saturday night with a sparky set of robust , melodic guitar songs that have toughened and matured over the last year of line-up shuffles , and should justly set them up for a spot of national service . |
| 10 | His being , his desire , is stretched and broken over sexual/racial divides . |
| 11 | Human diversity is the product of this process endlessly repeated and re-sorted over tens of thousands of years . |
| 12 | Defending her life and being jolted and shaken over the last few days had left her exhausted . |
| 13 | This should be rubbed between the hands and smoothed over your hair for great shine . |
| 14 | Hence the focus is on local politics , on the ways in which these have changed and developed over the post-war period and on the concepts and theories used to account for such changes . |
| 15 | In Cambridgeshire , Jack Ravensdale has been able to show from documentary references how the village plans of Cottenham , Landbeach and Waterbeach have changed and developed over the centuries . |
| 16 | Her hair flowed lank and forbidden over her shoulders , crimped by the traces of regulation ribbons . |
| 17 | The message Macedo carried to the villages — most of them accessible only by boat or along tortuous jungle trails and scattered over an area larger than England — was that the forest 's people should , in uniting , take control of their own destiny . |
| 18 | ‘ The average number of vehicles passed through the shops for repairs annually is 8,100 … . there are 3,200 employed at Wolverton , while outside we have 2,000 at Crewe , Carlisle and Willesden , and scattered over the line ’ . |
| 19 | Clinical waste disposal is one of the areas where many difficulties can arise if the hospital site is ( as many older psychiatric facilities are ) geographically remote and scattered over a wide area . |
| 20 | Chunks of blue-green stuff flaked off and scattered over the floor . |
| 21 | One tree in a school near Worcester has remained in its original position , while the buildings around it have been demolished and rebuilt over the centuries . |
| 22 | This was another of the instructions that would be repeatedly announced , ignored and forgotten over the next decade . |
| 23 | That battle had been fought and won over the Beveridge report . |
| 24 | Outside the Barbican , the National Gallery is mounting ‘ Edvard Munch : the Frieze of Life ’ ( 12 November to 7 February ) which focuses on the cycle of paintings of that name which the artist codified and modified over the years . |
| 25 | In what has been called ‘ The Age of Psychology ’ , the development of the individual and his self-fulfilment has been promoted and stressed over and above obligations and duties to marriage partners , children and other relatives . |
| 26 | The numerous fissures there , which came to be known as the Back Strings , represent these early excavations upon the vein outcrops , though they have been modified and deepened over the years . |
| 27 | Housed together under one roof from the early 1800s , and arranged and rearranged over the years ( but always with the Elgin Marbles at the centre ) , the collection was the raw material from which scholars wrought theories of the ‘ Progress of Antiquity ’ that culminated with the Ancient Greeks or , in direct opposition , that of cultural relativity accepted today . |
| 28 | Saw me looked after ; and educated over here . |
| 29 | To give a suitably ‘ thick ’ appearance to the painted plaster surface applied over the new brickwork of the chimney , ‘ Sirapite ’ plaster was mixed with wallpaper paste and smeared over the overprecise profiles of the new work . |
| 30 | The criteria for listing have changed and broadened over the years to include more Victorian buildings and , subsequently , more twentieth-century buildings . |