Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was performed by radiolabelling the food and monitoring its reflux with a small directional gamma detector , which was placed externally over the oesophagus , and connected to an ambulatory data recorder . |
| 2 | There was a rather stagy photograph of the man who 'd written the article casting on a shingle beach ; in a companion photo , he 'd set up a three-rod line and was gazing mistily over the breakers . |
| 3 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 4 | Campari was cascading silently over the rim of her glass , and dripping in a slow red trickle from the table to the patio . |
| 5 | The dried blood from my nose was smeared all over the front of my mouth and it cracked when I tried to move my lips . |
| 6 | By 1800 the new Shorthorn was Britain 's tallest breed , the bulls standing 152cm at the withers ; the famous Durham Ox was 165cm tall and weighed 3,024 pounds as a five-year-old in 1801 when it was exhibited all over the country , remaining a star travelling showpiece until it dislocated its hip in 1807 . |
| 7 | She wore a matching crepe dress , which draped across her large bosom and red neck , and a mink stole was hung negligently over the back of her chair . |
| 8 | He heard again the noise of doors opening , voices , saw a light streaming across the street , and he was scrambling frantically over the bomb-site , tripping over a pile of rubble , tearing his coat on a fence , and running down the shockingly open street , running for his life . |
| 9 | One minute he was busking away on the cabaret circuit , the next he was on late-night TV , and then suddenly he was grinning all over the tabloids . |
| 10 | He returned for five days in November 1991 when Selena Scott made a TV film A Prince Among Islands , which was shown all over the world . |
| 11 | Yeah , but it was pouring all over the forecourt . |
| 12 | It turned out he was paying well over the odds . |
| 13 | This man was peering winningly over the rampart . |
| 14 | And he must have been testin' in part fur flight refuellin' because Rodriguez says in his book he was refuelled somewhere over the Bellingshausen Sea , which is a long way west of the area where Sunderby lost his life . ’ |
| 15 | I thought he was going well over the top , actually . |
| 16 | That pattern was duplicated all over the subcontinent . |
| 17 | However the cry was raised all over the floor : " They 've removed their team leader " Some thirty young dealers applauded the courage of these two . |
| 18 | As Colonel Windsor laid aside his pen , dawn was breaking murkily over the County Longford village of Granard , some 150 miles north of Cambridge Barracks . |
| 19 | The hair was brushed forward over the crown and textured in the fringe by Scissors |
| 20 | The wrinkled skin was stretched tightly over the bones , paper-thin , blue-shadowed over pink crêpe . |
| 21 | Her skin , like leathery bark , was stretched tightly over the skeleton , and in places where it had cracked and parted you could see the bones inside like old wood . |
| 22 | The Peugeot was found just over a mile away in Twinbrook . |
| 23 | A TV researcher was arrested yesterday over a programme which claimed the RUC and Loyalist death squads colluded in murder . |
| 24 | A MAN was arrested yesterday over the murder of schoolgirl Lesley Molseed 17 years ago . |
| 25 | A FOURTH man was arrested yesterday over the Maxwell fraud scandal . |
| 26 | They could have put him down to graze somewhere and left him there quietly for an hour or two , but certainly yesterday he was running all over the field . |
| 27 | The truck was skidding all over the autobahn , skating over the ice-rink surface . |
| 28 | The publicity he gave to the idea in his paper was taken up by other newspapers and the example of Gloucester was followed all over the country . |
| 29 | Silence was descending all over the city . |
| 30 | The Election of 1705 , for example , which occurred shortly after the unsuccessful attempt to tack the Occasional Conformity Bill to the Land Tax Bill , was fought largely over the issue of the Church in Danger , and produced a series of bitter contests throughout the country . |