Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last summer we initiated the loan exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge of the finest private German collection of Romantic and Nazarene Drawings which we advised and helped build up over the years , having bought for the collection on commission here at the London auctions major drawings like Koch 's ‘ The Schmadribachfall ’ , and Overbeck 's important preparatory study for his fresco at the Villa Massimo in Rome . |
| 2 | And I think it was an example of the trust that we 'd built up over the weeks and months that we were able to do it . |
| 3 | The atmosphere was fantastic at the end as it seemed to build up over the rounds . |
| 4 | Other jobs they 'd pulled off over the years that we can nail them for . ’ |
| 5 | She turned to look out over the battlements again and raised her voice just as the sun broke through . |
| 6 | On this day he was gliding home to our airfield and only just made it back with less than a hundred feet as he arrived flying downwind over the boundary . |
| 7 | Now , as always at the beginning of the rainy season , dense black clouds began to roll in over the Residency from the direction of the river , advancing slowly , not more than a few feet above the ground and masking completely whatever lay in their path . |
| 8 | The pots of paint lay splattered all over the carpet . |
| 9 | Would you have her dragged up by a succession of au pairs and housekeepers while you went gallivanting all over the world ? |
| 10 | Leaning forward I had a view of it in the side mirror , the bend we had just rounded obliterated by a great mass of avalanching rock and mud that went spilling down over the edge to disappear into the cloud vapour below . |
| 11 | The soldiers bent over to form the arches but they were no good as they kept moving all over the place and there seemed to be no rules or sense of order to the game . |
| 12 | And I saw come just over the top of the doors as well . |
| 13 | Why do you think these mentions of him kept cropping up over the years ? |
| 14 | The generally cooperative partnership between the local states and the developers did break down over the distribution of investment profits from central shopping development . |
| 15 | I remembered setting out over the Crib Goch to do the Snowdon Horseshoe and reaching Lliwedd . |
| 16 | He wanted to make a person people would love — a little man of courage and kindness , a ‘ gent ’ down on his luck — and the character became loved all over the world , as well as making all the world laugh . |
| 17 | The night before , Kalchu and Sigarup went to the shrine , lit the oil lamp and tied two strips of new cloth — one red , one white — on to the rafters among the hundreds of old and blackened ones that had gathered there over the years . |
| 18 | A third round of preliminary talks in Rome between the TPLF and the Ethiopian government on March 20-29 had broken down over the TPLF 's insistence that " substantive talks " should involve a joint delegation of the TPLF and its ally , the Ethiopian People 's Democratic Movement ( EPDM ) . |
| 19 | Cabinet negotiations had broken down over the balance of power in the government , with the " small coalition " demanding greater control over the economy than the PSL was prepared to concede . |
| 20 | A group of armed Covenanters , under the command of Sir Robert Hamilton of Preston , East Lothian , had assembled at Rutherglen , and being opposed to Charles , had travelled all over the district , extinguishing the bonfires and stopping the celebrations . |
| 21 | Born in 1900 , the same year as the Queen Mother , he had spent twenty-three years at the top , he had travelled all over the world , he had stories and memories of escapades and people and was a colourful raconteur . |
| 22 | The hand reaching out for the bell had fallen slackly over the edge of the bed . |
| 23 | Opening the fourth and final day 's debate on the budget , Mr Heseltine flatly denied that he and Mr Lamont had fallen out over the VAT rise . |
| 24 | Opening the fourth and final day 's debate on the budget , Mr Heseltine flatly denied that he and Mr Lamont had fallen out over the VAT rise . |
| 25 | But they had fallen out over the collection of some money . |
| 26 | Channel shares had varied somewhat over the years , quite apart from the changes caused by the introduction of BBC2 and Channel 4 ( Table 6.18 ) . |
| 27 | She remembered Donna Fratelli 's raucous laugh , the number of times the two of them had sat together over a glass of wine or a plate of pasta , discussing the things which really matter : men , or life , or the latest movie . |
| 28 | Manpower had come down over the years from 470,000 in 1960 to 215,000 twenty years later , but the business was still over-staffed . |
| 29 | Helen had scrambled back over the wall . |
| 30 | She had given up counting the number of marriage proposals she had turned down over the years . |