Example sentences of "[verb] up over the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It remains to be seen whether the special provision built up over the last decade will survive what may be the collapse of pre-vocational college-based education . |
| 2 | The four were Donna Maguire , arrested in Turnhout , Belgium , on June 16 , who was wanted in connexion with attacks in West Germany in 1989 ; Gerard Majella Harte , arrested over the Dutch border on June 16 , after evading Belgian police near Turnhout , with a man provisionally named as Michael Collins who escaped in handcuffs but was later picked up over the Dutch border in Chaam , on June 18 ; and Paul Hughes , who drove through a police checkpoint in Chaam on June 18 and was arrested there on June 19 . |
| 3 | Drainage : what needs to be done before a good soil structure can be built up over the whole farm ? |
| 4 | The small but very fine collection of Old Master paintings , drawings and works of art had been built up over the last decade on the encouragement and advice of Metropolitan Museum curators . |
| 5 | They are not even about the accessibility of services , and they are certainly not about the development of economic and social policies — something that is so often ignored in the scramble to fragment and disintegrate what was built up over the last century by local government people of all political persuasions . |
| 6 | It 's just built up over the last coupla years really . |
| 7 | There may be now perestroika , everybody teaming up over the Middle East problem , but we are actually at war economically with all the countries outside this country and most of them , the young people are better trained , people , and better educated , longer educated , higher standards and also at work , there is much more training at work . |
| 8 | He imagined them lying close , arms round one another , Annie , perhaps , with her leg drawn up over the other girl 's haunch , and breathing softly on to one another 's faces . |
| 9 | Officers strutted in their brightest breacan-feiles ; the same length of a finer cloth , four and a half feet wide , held at the waist by a silver-buckled belt to fall double thickness , and the outside layer at the back drawn up over the left shoulder and pinned with a great silver brooch . |
| 10 | A huge row blows up over the trumpeted transference of ‘ Guernica ’ from the Prado ( see p. 19 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've made some contacts that I can follow up over the next couple of weeks . |
| 12 | SCOTLAND HAS failed to fill the entrepreneurial gap which has opened up over the last decade since the decline of the nationalised and heavy industries , the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , will acknowledge next week . |
| 13 | All steamed up over the real thing . |
| 14 | I made contact , and the arrangements were firmed up over the next week . |
| 15 | With a low gasp she let her fingers slide up over the daunting hardness of his shoulders , touch the short , thick hair at his nape … he moved his hands down to her hips , in a quick convulsive movement , crushing her against him . |
| 16 | The essence of the British suggestion was that the time had come to rationalise the proliferation of European institutions that had sprung up over the past decade , most specifically by introducing a single European assembly which , unrelated to any one organisation , would serve them all . |
| 17 | The sun was just coming up over the far bank , trailing a red reflection across the water . |
| 18 | Well full details of most of these games coming up over the next hour here on Talking Sport , now though the leading local results : League division two ; Oxford United one , Portsmouth nil ; the Beezer Homes League southern division ; Witney one , Erith and Belvedere nil ; the Vauxhall League division two south ; Harefield two , Abingdon Town two ; the South Midland League premier division ; Langford one , Thame two ; the O'Brien Trophy ; Tring three , Oxford City one ; the Hellenic League premier cup ; Banbury one , Carterton two ; Bicester two , Milton nil ; Didcot one , Almondsbury nil ; Wantage nil , Bishops Cleve one ; the premier division ; Hounslow three , Headington Amateurs one ; Swindon Athletic one , Abingdon United nil ; the Combination League ; Portsmouth Reserves four , Oxford United Reserves two ; and the south-east Counties League ; Oxford United one , Swindon nil ; now for the classified football results , here 's Headley Feast . |
| 19 | They linked this with a national rent rebate scheme , rationalizing the variety of local schemes that had been set up over the previous decade , to offset the costs to the poorer tenants . |
| 20 | The patients were followed up over the one week period of the challenge and , for longterm tolerance ; they were seen one month later . |
| 21 | His call has also been taken up over the past week by those with an interest in property , gleefully listing their own particular regional carbuncles ripe for demolition . |
| 22 | A good deal of improvisation was necessary and Martha had put three tin plates to heat up over the hissing saucepan of beans . |
| 23 | Yeah , they got , they 've got a massive Bugs Bunny sitting up over the sweet counter as you go in |
| 24 | With loan rates virtually certain to move up over the next month to around 14.75 per cent , a line of credit fixed at 12.95 per cent suddenly seems rather attractive . |
| 25 | In the south-east , it shot up over the same period from 4 to 9.7pc . |
| 26 | The worst possible thing for me would have been to have gone through the half in 63 or 64 minutes , just being pulled along by a fast field , and then to have blown up over the second half . ’ |
| 27 | Managers are naturally biased towards projects showing a quick return , if they feel there is unlikely to be ex post settling up over the longer term . |