Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] over a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , it was the man at the opposite end of the park , Sieb Dykstra , who had the busier afternoon as he produced three crucial saves , the middle one — he was backpedalling as he acrobatically tipped over a superb Pat McGinlay shot — being the pick of the bunch .
2 He opened up a correspondence with the more pliable officers among Dara 's army and with promises of rewards secretly won over a sizeable proportion of his opponent 's force .
3 The varnish can also be successfully applied over a solvent-based stain if required .
4 The performance of the simple low-pass C-R filter is best displayed over a large range of frequency in a plot of versus .
5 Now if you 're not fit and you 're just getting over a cold now so there 's no way your fit you 're gon na be well an absolute disaster out there .
6 The sheet of paper is not stretched over a rubber roller or platen as it would be with an impact printer but a sheet of metal .
7 Of course , as has been shown , neither English nor humane education were simply " there " , but had been laboriously constructed over a long period .
8 The total number of pieces of gum used in the first day should be gradually reduced over a subsequent period of ten days .
9 Finally the nomadic Parthians were followed , two , centuries after Christ , by the Sassaniansm who Shahanshah , or King , still ruled over a vast area , including parts of what are now Georgia , Armenia , Afghanistan , Bahrain and Iraq .
10 Er this being gradually achieved over a three year phased expansion period .
11 This fact probably has over a fifty per cent accuracy .
12 He also presided over a Legislative Council which included a non-official minority .
13 The series is also spread over a broad area ( both instruments sharing the same serial form ) to cover the first twelve bars of the work .
14 Some people are also concerned that water beds are too heavy for some floors , but this is practically never the case as the weight of the water is evenly distributed over a large area .
15 Occasionally , one would flick snow at the other — although by now the snow was well trampled over a wide area .
16 There can be little doubt that , in terms of property development , the LDDC has indeed presided over a dramatic transformation in London 's Docklands .
17 There 's really no chance of getting bitten if your ferrets have been properly handled over a long period and are never scared .
18 The results of investigations in all patients referred by family practitioners to a medical gastroenterology outpatient clinic for the investigation of iron deficiency anaemia were prospectively collected over a 17 month period .
19 He had until recently presided over a cautious freeing of expression and politics .
20 This technique was highly dangerous and required the skills that Cheshire had certainly acquired over a long period , but was equally within Gibson 's exceptional abilities .
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