Example sentences of "of [art] [noun sg] [vb pp] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Moderator laid on the table a letter dated 4th July which he had received from Mr Sutherland and which having , been read was by unanimous order of the Session thrown over the table . |
| 2 | But I discard that idea , for the water is too shallow over the sand and once a fish is hooked the fishing would be finished for a long time while the rest of the shoal got over the scare . |
| 3 | Professor Lacey said yesterday : ‘ I have seen the membership of the committee refined over the years to suit the interests of the large food and pharmaceutical companies . |
| 4 | He could , Dalgliesh thought , have been judged an outstandingly handsome man were it not for a certain incongruity of feature , perhaps the contrast between the fineness of the skin stretched over the flat cheekbones and the strong jutting jaw and uncompromising mouth . |
| 5 | Athelstan swung his cloak around him , picked up his writing tray and examined the beautiful embroidery of the dorsar draped over the back of one of the chairs . |
| 6 | The social tensions evidenced in many of these letters found an echo in some of the music played over the radio . |
| 7 | On an afternoon in late February they climbed to the great Iron Age hill-fort at Dowsborough , from where they looked down on ‘ a magnificent scene , curiously spread out for even minute inspection ’ ; and on other occasions they watched from the hills as the effects of the weather unfolded over the landscape below . |
| 8 | It is believed the platform of the hoist toppled over the first floor balcony sending them crashing to the ground floor . |
| 9 | Finally a sheer mountain of a wave smashed over the raft with a furious roar and swept it further on to the reef away from the pounding terror . |
| 10 | I found my penknife and kept it close as the shadow of a vulture wheeled over the tent . |