Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 'd been slumped over the freezer for some minutes before anyone realised anything was wrong , ’ he said . |
| 2 | I told my supplier — you know , I said I 'd been done over , I had no money , n. stuff . |
| 3 | I have already said that anathema had been pronounced over the Avant-garde from the beginning of the Thirties , and that made it very difficult for the avant-garde artists themselves , as well as for their families . |
| 4 | The third round of talks , in May , had been halted over the same issue [ see p. 38191 ] . |
| 5 | In May 1990 the FAO launched an appeal for $85,000,000 to eradicate the New World screwworm ( Cochliomyia homnivorax ) , a large fly of South American origin which had been detected over an area of 18,000 sq km in Libya . |
| 6 | A modern shelter had been raised over it , and the ground about the stone had been paved . |
| 7 | Bonaventure with a cheque for £8,000 , which had been raised over the years by the people of Hemlington for their centre . |
| 8 | The second session of Parliament , which began on 9 November , saw an attack on the standing army , the Commons refusing to vote supply for the additional forces that had been raised over the summer , and instead resolving to bring in a bill to reform the militia . |
| 9 | I was disappointed that the water-wheel had gone — the kitchen had been built over the pit which had housed it . |
| 10 | As I considered the contents of the squadron report , it seemed to me that the probability was that the bodies were those of aircrew from supply aircraft , for there was some suggestion in the report that a Liberator and a Halifax had been lost over the Morvan when ferrying supplies ; but the point is that no proper statement was ever made in regimental records . |
| 11 | In each case ozone-poor air had been blown over the city after the annual break-up of the Antarctic ozone hold at the end of the southern spring . |
| 12 | In other years , none of the ozone-depleted air had been blown over Ushuaia . |
| 13 | The k'va was the colour of straw because it had been cooked over boiling k'vass , an ale which was made from fermenting the raw grain , and it steamed gently . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , some 730 ‘ cables ’ had been transmitted over the line and so Field and his colleagues had proved that a transoceanic cable was not only feasible , but could also take a great deal of traffic . |
| 15 | Mark 's name had been called over the loudspeaker system . |
| 16 | In effect the competitive labour supply function had been supplanted over most of its range by what may be called the ‘ trades union labour supply function ’ , illustrated by the bold lines in Figure 5.1 . |
| 17 | s to see what had been done over there . |
| 18 | French sovereignty , it was suggested , had been recognized over Indo-China ; but the paper maintained that this did not imply any commitment on the part of the US to assist France to exert its authority over the Indo-Chinese people . |
| 19 | He had the pathologist 's preliminary report which had been dictated over the telephone . |
| 20 | The car , a green Morris Minor , had been toppled over the edge of a shallow depression in the wasteland , and had lurched to rest on a grassy plateau about ten feet from the ridge like a clumsy animal going to earth . |
| 21 | On Clwyd limestone , fears had been expressed over the possibility of losing the trees along the top of the World 's End crags . |
| 22 | This amount had been collected over the winter , with the proceeds of a weekly raffle also being added to the bottle . |
| 23 | He hat eventually decided to ask Security 's registry and its computers for a trace muddling the trail by getting a colleague to send the request for him and burying it in a list of acronyms as if they had been collected over a period of time . |
| 24 | Amongst other things , we were always finding used syringes that had been lobbed over the wall . |
| 25 | It also shows how far state medicine had been checked over sexual regulation . |
| 26 | Extremely , you know I mean if , if it had been checked over regular maybe or something like that , I do n't know how often it gets checked over or anything but you know er that gantry 's supposed to be you know , kind of really safe , so many sensors on it which are supposed to stop that from happening . |
| 27 | Patients were immersed in water from the Nile which had been poured over divine statues inscribed with magical spells . |
| 28 | Gava had been criticized over his failure to deal with organized crime and had been accused by the Communist Party ( PCI ) of links with the Camorra , the Neapolitan branch of the Mafia . |
| 29 | In 1167 his army had been decimated before Rome by an outbreak of malaria ; and he had been chased over the Alps in humiliating disaster ; but still he plotted and planned to return to the task . |
| 30 | Much interest was expressed from personnel across the system in the work in which I had been involved over the last eleven years with Queensland Catholic Education . |