Example sentences of "[pron] was [vb pp] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was hit over the head . ’ |
| 2 | I was born over the road . |
| 3 | ‘ Then I was contacted over the phone by a company in Rufford who agreed to sell the car for £50 . |
| 4 | The Party 's policy on Spain had also been radically altered amid the great enthusiasm which was felt over the resistance of the Republican Government . |
| 5 | What happened , happened up there , once , once that was lost on appeal , right , the whole of the handling of that by East Devon council just been poor , and then , what did they do , they decided to go for appeal , which was upheld over the garage . |
| 6 | In order to counteract the effects of malaria , they were frequently doped with opium , which was sold over the counter in the village shop or grown in the fens ( where Poppy Hill and Poppy Farm still exist as place-names ) . |
| 7 | Was not ‘ cushion ’ the term which eventually became vogue for the extra help which was thrown over the poll tax time and again in a vain attempt to douse the flames of dissent . |
| 8 | She was slumped over the steering wheel of her car . |
| 9 | When she was hit over the head with a brick and put off work for four months , she came back for more . |
| 10 | She had her backstage duties to attend to , and when she was was n't in front of the footlights she was hunched over the book in the prompt corner . |
| 11 | The links between politics and patronage can not have been beneficial to the efficiency of the customs service as a revenue-collecting agency , for all too often strong political interests could secure an important post for a man with little or no experience who was placed over the head of men far better qualified than himself , and presumably resentful of their own failure to secure advancement . |
| 12 | The smoke from the incinerator made Harry blink and cough , but Morpurgo , who was stooped over the very top of it , seemed unaffected and still he paid his visitor no heed . |
| 13 | Sarah was allowed to dust and polish in Mr Bradford 's rooms , a duty given only to trusted servants since it meant moving many of his important papers , but when she went in there after her return she dropped one of his boxes and everything was scattered over the carpet . |
| 14 | It was formed over the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries by the Princes zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck , and displayed at Schloss Dyck , their picturesque Rhineland ‘ water-castle ’ in the north-west of the country near Düsseldorf . |
| 15 | It was written over the entrance , gold letters on purple gloss on red brick . |
| 16 | Less successful on the bird front was Sotheby 's lot 237 , a ‘ fine and rare ’ Marseilles Faience turkey tureen and cover , circa 1770 , estimated in the catalogue £25–35,000 , revised before the sale to £40–60,000 ; it was bought over the telephone , against a dead room for £38,000 ( $57,000 ) but appeared as unsold in the post-sale results . |
| 17 | Ratings now steadied the canoe as it was put over the side , lying on the hydroplanes . |
| 18 | The list of issues which the group came up with was so detailed that it was discussed over the following weeks . |
| 19 | While it was stretched over the whole length of imperial communications , its most dangerous possible rival was the more easily concentrated French fleet ; the prospect of a descent on the Channel ports still preoccupied the Admiralty . |
| 20 | The blade flashed as it was drawn over the leather . |
| 21 | The first race was from Paris to Lyons in 1900 and it remained an open road race until 1903 when it was held over the Athy circuit in Ireland . |
| 22 | As he headed for St Margaret 's Grove he was bundled over the fence into the field . |
| 23 | He was hit over the head and broke an ankle but disarmed the 6ft raider and sent him packing . |
| 24 | Hurley handed him a Turkish passport with a West German visa and he was escorted over the green line into Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus . |
| 25 | He was bent over the prow of a little wooden sailboat — he was obviously having a rest from speedboat practice today — and was busily tightening something with a big screwdriver . |
| 26 | Darren Sadler , 25 , from Cleveleys Lancs was killed when he was swept over the sea wall in Blackpool . |
| 27 | He was hunched over the car . |
| 28 | The name Heryng is found often connected with Halling and another name we find is that of John Hostier , who in 1268 , was bailiff here , for in this year he was questioned over the Bishop 's land at Halling . |
| 29 | Sitting together on a settee as they faced hostile questioning , Bill Clinton seemed at first to be struggling as he was tackled over the Flowers affair . |
| 30 | As the other four offered their own inimitable advice , the police hustled the Celtic defender downstairs and out into the streets where he was thrown over the bonnet of a police car . |