Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv] over [art] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | That pattern was duplicated all over the subcontinent . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The hair was brushed forward over the crown and textured in the fringe by Scissors |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Peugeot was found just over a mile away in Twinbrook . |
| 11 | A TV researcher was arrested yesterday over a programme which claimed the RUC and Loyalist death squads colluded in murder . |
| 12 | A MAN was arrested yesterday over the murder of schoolgirl Lesley Molseed 17 years ago . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The 1713 Election , by contrast , was fought mainly over the issue of ending the war . |
| 16 | It was usually something quite silly and trivial , like leaving the taps running in the bath huts or over-stuffing the dustbins so that mess and litter was spread all over the ground , but sometimes someone 's carelessness resulted in the whole inadequate drainage system being completely overloaded and clogged up . |
| 17 | ‘ In Misano , when we crashed on a fast right-hander and Steve cracked a shoulder , I was thrown right over the top . |
| 18 | I sent away for a video instruction tape over two months ago ; the cheque was cashed well over a month ago but as yet I have not received the tape . |