Example sentences of "[noun sg] were [vb pp] over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jumping down , he ran up the stairs into the Long Room , where all the workforce were seated over the midday meal . |
| 2 | Clarke and Morrison report data on soil erosion , collected between 1978 and 1983 from a 5–8' slope at Seaqaqa , which show that between 15 and 20 cm of soil were lost over the site as a whole , which is equivalent to an annual overall loss of , and that the soil became more compacted with a loss of organic matter . |
| 3 | The code and its rationale were published over the course of a year in Dr Dobb 's Journal beginning in January of 1991 . |
| 4 | Savery-Gilliard bougies or Eder-Puestow metal olives of increasing size were passed over a guide wire which had been positioned with the help of a fibreoptic endoscope . |
| 5 | In the Hall study accidents at 177 signalized crossroads were analysed over a period of four years , over this period accidents involving a vehicle turning right outnumbered those to vehicles turning left by a ratio of 6.6:1 ( accidents involving one vehicle turning in each direction were excluded from the analysis ) . |
| 6 | He had a grey fringe round back and sides , although a few wisps that had once been fair or ginger were combed over the top . |
| 7 | A court has been told that the idea for an elaborate murder plot , in which a couple were pushed over a cliff in a blazing car , may have come from a film on satellite television . |
| 8 | Echoes of this declaration were revived over a century later with the Novi Sad Agreement of 1954 . |