Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be [vb pp] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told my supplier — you know , I said I 'd been done over , I had no money , n. stuff . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Somehow , step by precarious step , I had been drawn over the invisible divide and was now truly a part of the family hareem . |
| 4 | I have been done over in the street . |
| 5 | Despite the growth of research into everyday memory and memory in applied settings ( e.g. Gruneberg , Morris & Sykes , 1978 , 1988a , 1988b ) and the research and theorising which has been done over some 50 years on the psychology of driver behaviour , there has been virtually no research which directly looks at memory in driving . |
| 6 | One of these , PC-Hornet , which has been developed over the past 10 years , will be shown for the first time by McDonnell Douglas . |
| 7 | These major companies are very stable , with an organisational structure which has been developed over many years and , like the Japanese Zaibatsu , they have a large-core business which is able to withstand changes in the market place . |
| 8 | It may be related to the size , complexity and nature of the company 's operation and therefore to the organisational structure which has been developed over many years . |
| 9 | We must pay tribute also to the United Nations , which has been revitalised over the past 12 months and has started to play its part in trying to unravel and resolve the problems in Yugoslavia . |
| 10 | The constitution of the Federation , which has been formulated over the past two years , was agreed with twelve countries accepted into membership . |
| 11 | Canteiro is a wine which has been matured over many years without going into an estufa , and it is of a good age . |
| 12 | Reid 's objection , which has been reiterated over the years , is often supplemented with its converse . |
| 13 | Children are likely to play ball against your side wall and you may find yourself picking litter out of the garden which has been thrown over your wall or fence . |
| 14 | Er Mr Chairman , ladies and gentlemen I 'd like to present the early result of an audit of of the prostate which has been performed over the northern region . |
| 15 | He is holding forth about beauty to an audience which has been short-changed over food and drink and entertainment . |
| 16 | If it seems odd to devote a chapter to one book , however important and significant , it must be appreciated that numerically it is by far the most commonly found book and one which has been published over such a long period that the collector will see it more frequently than any other . |
| 17 | It is particularly keen to help the manufacturing sector , which has been decimated over the past 12 years . |
| 18 | As the carriage is moved along the needle bed , the brush on the leading edge of the sinker plate will be pushing on the weaving yarn which has been laid over the needles to move it to the right position . |
| 19 | Patients were immersed in water from the Nile which had been poured over divine statues inscribed with magical spells . |
| 20 | Bonaventure with a cheque for £8,000 , which had been raised over the years by the people of Hemlington for their centre . |
| 21 | He had the pathologist 's preliminary report which had been dictated over the telephone . |
| 22 | Chaovalit 's entry to government was expected to raise the prestige of the administration which had been beset over the previous year by a series of corruption scandals and labour disputes . |
| 23 | On another machine I had , which was operated in a rather dusty atmosphere , an intermittent failure report from the operating system seemed totally inexplicable except for a light layer of dust which had been deposited over everything inside the system box . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The sun was casting a pleasant subdued clear radiance through the brown blinds which had been drawn over the south-facing skylight . |
| 26 | In it , Ptolemy summarized much of the scientific knowledge which had been amassed over the previous centuries . |
| 27 | Both were understood to have reiterated their governments ' stated positions on matters including the HK$175,300 million ( approximately US$24,000 million ) new airport project , which had been stalled over China 's objections to proposed financing arrangements [ see pp. 38340 ; 39005 ] . |
| 28 | The handles of knives were frequently made of two pieces riveted together , but the alder-wood handle of a knife from Christchurch ( Hampshire ) was one piece of wood which had been forced over the pointed tang ( Jarvis et al . |
| 29 | Mr Clinton may be staking the future of his presidency on his plan , details of which have been leaked over the past week . |
| 30 | ABOVE Hounds which have been raised over generations to chase game by sight rather than scent can be difficult to train . |