Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] over [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the case Mr Bedi vowed to fight on over the unpaid bill which , he claims , was sent to the wrong address . |
| 2 | In splinters of thought , unconnectedly , I began to look back over the past three weeks . |
| 3 | So much lava flowed into the Skaftar valley that it was completely filled and lava began to spill out over the surrounding countryside . |
| 4 | Most , but not all , of the islanders retreated to the mainland , returning five months later to discover that their island had grown by over a square mile and that nearly half the town had been destroyed . |
| 5 | It was an enormous leap , which he was able to make by virtue of the professional competence and political significance he had built up over the preceding twenty years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | All that can sensibly be said is that , given everything capitalism had gone through over the previous few years , a collapse of confidence was to be expected at some point . |