Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sauce from Mr Bishop 's tomato ketchup bottles had been emptied out in great red gobs or smeared over the cupboards . |
| 2 | Among the tepid metal and tile of the locker room , or slumped over the paper cups and coffee balloons of the commissary-Johnny 's there , with unspeakable skidmarks all over his smock . |
| 3 | What happens when you introduce something new to his familiar environment — for example , placing a brightly coloured cloth or jacket on the paddock fence , or hung over the pole of a small jump . |
| 4 | He is being honoured by an exhibition assembling the more than 300 paintings , sculptures and decorative artworks he has donated or promised over the years . |
| 5 | But there are also thousands of people walking around in a semi-drugged state day after day because they are in the habit of taking tablets , whether prescribed or bought over the counter . |
| 6 | Despite the deficiencies in the present system we believe that child resistant closures should be used now for all medicines whether dispensed or bought over the counter . |
| 7 | Some worshippers believe the water has healing properties when drunk or sprinkled over the sick . |
| 8 | The cubs , all between three and seven weeks old , have been found orphaned or abandoned over the last few weeks . |
| 9 | It is well settled that such a grant or demise will … impliedly confer on the grantee or lessee … easements over the land retained corresponding to the continuous or apparent quasi-easements enjoyed at the time of the grant or demise by the property granted or demised over the property retained … |
| 10 | However , it is unclear whether survival rates of those with dementia have increased or decreased over the post-war period . |
| 11 | If adults are asked about their childhood , it seems highly likely that their memories will have become distorted or lost over the years , and that they will be coloured by the person 's present mood state , particularly by the existence of any psychiatric disorder . |
| 12 | The arguments for and against their management styles seem likely to be won or lost over the brandy and cigars at dinners before tomorrow 's monthly meeting of the BBC board . |
| 13 | ‘ Just talk to them , find out what they 've seen and heard over the last couple of weeks , ’ the DI said . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've put Mr Trumper 's things in the bedroom and checked over the flat . |
| 15 | a fiery fellow ( the salamander was popularly supposed to be able to live in fire ) ; also , a circular iron plate which is heated and placed over a pudding or other dish to brown it ( OED ) . |
| 16 | Half-way along it , Ember whipped round to yell , ‘ Go , Jez ! ’ and vaulted over the hand-rail . |
| 17 | The man burst into the Alpine Cafe in Marine Drive , Southport , and vaulted over the counter to snatch £90 in cash . |
| 18 | Police issued the photofit of a man who burst into the Alpine Cafe in Marine Drive , Southport , and vaulted over the counter . |
| 19 | While Dylan 's is the voice of death , despair , loss , wrack and ruin , Young 's call , seemingly polished and matured over the years , speaks of hope , regeneration and humility , reaching a peak on the heartbreaking beauty of ‘ Such A Woman ’ . |
| 20 | Millions Of Honey opened Saturday night with a sparky set of robust , melodic guitar songs that have toughened and matured over the last year of line-up shuffles , and should justly set them up for a spot of national service . |
| 21 | Defending her life and being jolted and shaken over the last few days had left her exhausted . |
| 22 | Hence the focus is on local politics , on the ways in which these have changed and developed over the post-war period and on the concepts and theories used to account for such changes . |
| 23 | In Cambridgeshire , Jack Ravensdale has been able to show from documentary references how the village plans of Cottenham , Landbeach and Waterbeach have changed and developed over the centuries . |
| 24 | Clinical waste disposal is one of the areas where many difficulties can arise if the hospital site is ( as many older psychiatric facilities are ) geographically remote and scattered over a wide area . |
| 25 | The message Macedo carried to the villages — most of them accessible only by boat or along tortuous jungle trails and scattered over an area larger than England — was that the forest 's people should , in uniting , take control of their own destiny . |
| 26 | ‘ The average number of vehicles passed through the shops for repairs annually is 8,100 … . there are 3,200 employed at Wolverton , while outside we have 2,000 at Crewe , Carlisle and Willesden , and scattered over the line ’ . |
| 27 | Chunks of blue-green stuff flaked off and scattered over the floor . |
| 28 | One tree in a school near Worcester has remained in its original position , while the buildings around it have been demolished and rebuilt over the centuries . |
| 29 | This was another of the instructions that would be repeatedly announced , ignored and forgotten over the next decade . |
| 30 | That battle had been fought and won over the Beveridge report . |