Example sentences of "went over [art] " in BNC.

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1 But anyway , talking about engineering as a whole , quite obviously it 's interesting to go back a bit because I 'm always interested in the way the institutions actually started because er there 's a lovely story about er , the Stephenson brothers and tho , ju , having just come down from Scarborough on a mini-holiday we stopped at York and I went over a great big museum there , and quite obviously seeing the marvellous locomotives you realise that George Stevenson had er , a lot to do with that .
2 Oh it 's going , ooh , it went out actually just as we went over a bump
3 He went over the Tay to Aberfeldy more to keep Flemyng quiet than with any hope of working .
4 She went over the sequence of events in her mind .
5 One ice-breaker went over the top on the Oxford Canal at Nell 's Bridge on Saturday and plunged neck deep into freezing water
6 That 's when he actually got into the ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ period and when the show extended a bit more into the theatrical — more props with street scenes , a huge lift chair that went over the audience , and things like that .
7 Fewer of those mergers , designed to build diversified conglomerates , were ‘ hostile ’ in the sense that they went over the heads of incumbent managers .
8 My father probably went over the [ Shakespeare ] plays with me when I was doing my home-work , but his taste was for directly elevating philanthropic and progressive literature .
9 She went over the place with the country gent estate agent , who wore a check cap , cavalry twill trousers , had a limp handshake and permanently narrowed blue eyes .
10 A car was coming up the track at high speed , creaking and groaning as it went over the bumps .
11 Mrs Hollidaye had asked when they went over the fields to fetch the creamy milk from Home Farm .
12 Near the end of the book of Joshua a passing reference is made to a battle , which may or may not belong to the same account as chapter 2 : ‘ And you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho , and the men of Jericho fought against you … ’
13 The prolific striker added to a succession of first-half near-misses with another spectacular shot on the turn which just went over the Ipswich bar .
14 When the divers went over the side to swim down the seventy feet to the pipe , however , they immediately discovered how hazardous it really was .
15 It went over the green into the crowd .
16 It went over the green and into the crowd .
17 He went over the ledge , hit the water again about half way down , skidded unscathed out of the tube , and kept on going .
18 When a reaction set in , the experts ( as so often tends to be the case with childcare issues ) went over the top .
19 The footpath went over the hatches to the Mill , at that time a bone-mill which produced a terrible smell that pervaded a wide area , rather spoiling the lovely spot .
20 Then we went over the two Harnham Bridges , one with its niches to enable pedestrians to shelter from passing vehicles and so to Exeter Street and home .
21 Subsequently , the floods came down and went over the whole bridge , topping the rails , and it was a tribute to the efficiency of both its design and erection that the bridge withstood this successfully .
22 We went over the Alps .
23 ‘ What , so you 'd be sick as a parrot if we went over the moon together ? ’
24 On the first occasion I had been down to visit an isolated village , on the south face of Kala Agar ridge , that had been abandoned the previous year owing to the depredations of the man-eater , and on the way back had taken a cattle track that went over the ridge and down the far side to the forest road , when , approaching a pile of rocks , I suddenly felt there was danger ahead .
25 Unfortunately , the shaft went over the top of my foot and Charlie stood on it .
26 Neville Furlong won the race for the touch before the ball went over the deadball line and Peter Russell made it 6–0 with a fine conversion from far out .
27 Rapidly organised , 3000 cavalry charged up the hill to engage the rebels , and a great number of them went over the cliff into the Chalk Pits .
28 A hundred yards from the beach Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott followed the drill and went over the side .
29 A ripple of life went over the face of Mark the publisher 's assistant .
30 He often went over the head of union officials , appealing directly to the workforce , and , to a great extent , the workforce accepted his proposals , thereby improving productivity and dramatically reducing the days lost through industrial disputes .
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