Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] over by " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am bowled over by my first day at school ; there are scores of us sitting at long bench desks in a vast wooden hut . |
| 2 | I 'm bowled over by the logic and impressed with the religious zeal . ’ |
| 3 | It can be news of a member of the congregation 's promotion or someone 's marriage or — even better — someone being run over by a lorry , but there is always news . |
| 4 | ‘ When my father died my mother took me on a trip to Spain and I was bowled over by the El Grecos . |
| 5 | ‘ At the very least , ’ says Ian Hawkins ‘ it avoids their being crawled over by the competition . ’ |
| 6 | RIBA Companies Ltd , was then set up to oversee the management of these companies , the shares in which were transferred over by the RIBA . |
| 7 | During the whole of its independent life the railway possessed only 2 locomotives , both Manning Wardle outside cylinder , 0-6-OSTs , named Cleobury and Burwarton , which were taken over by the GWR in 1923 and survived in traffic until the 1950s . |
| 8 | She then goes to a cat country far away which is taken over by bandits . ’ |
| 9 | Colleagues presented him with video editing equipment which was handed over by Michael Larkin , senior manager in Research Group . |
| 10 | An alternative explanation is that the figure indicates the existence of an important fertility bull cult at Stamford which was brought over by the Myceneans . |
| 11 | However , Marine Harvest , the former Unilever subsidiary which was bought over by the US MariFarms Inc Group last year , has remained in the US market although only a small proportion of its 10,000 tonnes production from Scotland is sent there . |
| 12 | Sidney Samuelson , the chairman of lighting hire group Samuelson which was taken over by Eagle in 1987 , is also resigning though he will retain his position at Samuelson . |
| 13 | In a report from Leningrad , Pravda revealed that the city 's first secretary , Mr Anatoly Gerasimov , had been relieved of his post , which was taken over by the Leningrad regional boss , Mr Boris Gidaspov , combining the two jobs . |
| 14 | In a report from Leningrad , Pravda revealed that the city 's first secretary , Mr Anatoly Gerasimov , had been relieved of his post , which was taken over by the Leningrad regional boss , Mr Boris Gidaspov , combining the two jobs . |
| 15 | Union ( which was taken over by the Grand Junction in 1894 ) — that if the canal was to survive , extensive repairs were essential . |
| 16 | Clients will never love the UK OTC market , or at best will only love an isolated stock or two , like Hard Rock Cafe , which achieved a proper stock market listing in the UK and in the United States , and which was taken over by Pleasurama in July 1988 . |
| 17 | Finally , the late eighties saw the launch of satellite TV services , initially by Sky and then by the ill-fated BSB , which was taken over by Sky to form BSkyB when BSB succumbed to financial difficulties less than two years after going on air , in late 1990 . |
| 18 | However the king-emperor allowed his wife , Isabella of Portugal , in 1526 to have a chapel of Spanish and Portuguese musicians and it was among the instrumentalists of this body , which was taken over by Philip II when he became regent of Spain in 1543 , that we find the innovators : the blind organist Antonio de Cabezon ( C. 1500–1566 ) , who was one of its original members , the clavichordist Francisco de Soto ( c. 1500–1563 ) , who joined soon after , and Luis de Narváez ( d. after 1555 ) , a player of the vihuela de mano ( the Spanish lute ) who was recruited by Philip . |
| 19 | Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery . |
| 20 | In communal elections in Innsbruck on Sept. 24 the FPÖ and the local version of the Green Alternatives ( Grüne Alternativen — GA ) won seats and votes from both the ÖVP and the SPÖ , although the ÖVP remained the strongest party ; in Salzburg province on Oct. 8 the FPÖ improved its position while the SPÖ and the ÖVP both suffered losses ; in Lower Austria and Styria on March 25 , 1990 , the ÖVP retained its dominant position despite losing votes and seats to the FPÖ and the GA , while the SPÖ remained the second largest party ; and in Vorarlberg on April 1 the SPÖ lost its absolute majority on the Bregenz municipal council , which was taken over by an ÖVP chair . |
| 21 | While walking the rest of the way , you are run over by kids on mopeds . |
| 22 | What happens if you are run over by an iceberg ? |
| 23 | As you turn the corner towards the church of St Mary , which was enthusiastically restored in the picturesque style during the nineteenth century , you are bowled over by the beauty of this grandest of farms . |
| 24 | I wonder if I were to kill her , if she were dead , if she were knocked over by a car , would that make the jealousy , that mixture of anxiety , grief and fear of exclusion , simply stop ? |
| 25 | W. F. Blackwood left to purchase a nearby spinning company of hosiery yarns — none other than Douglas Reyburn & Co who were taken over by Stoddard in 1947 . |
| 26 | It was n't only humans who were bowled over by Narcissus . |
| 27 | Whe when you were did n't it happen Mrs that when you were playing in the street one day , you were knocked over by a tram ? |
| 28 | SHE who 's bowled over by the attentions of a powerful , successful man begins by enjoying herself but , fatally , moves on to fantasising about their future together . |
| 29 | She was run over by a car travelling at excessive speed and overtaking on the wrong side . |
| 30 | Frances Maidment has vivid memories of the day she was run over by a stolen car . |