Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] over a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having gingerly discarded over a hedge bits of rotted fruit and suspect cheese , I lunched on olives and mineral water in the shade of a great oak wood . |
| 2 | It was possible to think , as she herself points out , that she had merely tripped over a plug or something ; in fact Ann has an artificial leg . |
| 3 | Ironically , very often it is conservation policies , successfully applied over a period of time , that have made the centre a more attractive investment to owners and increased the value of properties . |
| 4 | It was true , it had the feel of truth : the woman had n't just fallen over a cliff . |
| 5 | Woks are best used over a gas flame . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've just crossed over a road , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Bedwetting baselines are best set over a period of at least 2 weeks because of the often intermittent nature of the problem . |
| 8 | Bill rang police up and he says , oh he said I 've just run over a dog ! |
| 9 | I did n't think anyone was aware of my leg ; I do limp , but for all they knew I might have just tripped over a plug or something . |
| 10 | We had just passed over a gaggle of eighteen-thousand-foot volcanoes , great slag heaps of ash with gaping vents pointed at the clear blue bowl of the heavens , when he finally shifted in his seat and leaned across me to look out of the window , blinking his eyes . |
| 11 | Father Crispin had unfortunately just knocked over a wine cup and was cleaning up the mess with a napkin . |
| 12 | When he came into the labs , Corbett was already poised over a crucible of smoking liquid , looking less like a mad professor than an incompetent short-order cook . |
| 13 | Article 8 calls for the Common Market to be progressively established over a period of 12 years . |
| 14 | In practice , low potencies are usually prescribed over a period of time , whereas high potencies are classically administered as the single dose . |
| 15 | I can think now of two elderly people I know , who never , ever got over a burglary . |
| 16 | JAPAN 's ruling party is deeply divided over a proposal to use armed naval escorts to guard shipments of plutonium from terrorist attack . |
| 17 | The temporary diversion of the Union Canal had to guarantee passage of 4½ million gallons of water a day with a similar standby capacity , whilst the Edinburgh/Carstairs railway was temporarily diverted over a length of almost 800 metres . |
| 18 | In that experiment 19 enlisted men were repeatedly tested over a period of six weeks . |
| 19 | K + channel activity was also studied over a range of pipette potentials in a series of excised inside out patches , and Fig 2A shows results from a patch that contained a single channel ( high K + bath solution , NaCl pipette solution ) . |
| 20 | We shall now investigate the case when the charge is uniformly distributed over a plane ( the x , y plane in Fig. 2.12 ) . |
| 21 | The brush should be dipped and loosely scrubbed over a surface wetting the area , rather than cleaning , then dipped again and used to scrub rapidly the wetted area . |
| 22 | The riots appear to have been precipitated by an apparently casual incident when a Meskhetian angrily tipped over a table of strawberries being sold by an Uzbek girl . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , given the set of results obtained , genuine abstraction of this sort is difficult : some preferences are evenly distributed over a number of columns while other columns yield no statistically significant set of preferences . |
| 24 | And he glanced down at Changez 's duff hand again as if to reconfirm that his brother had really sent over a cripple as a husband for his only daughter . |
| 25 | In particular , the number of stopping places available to them has been drastically reduced over a period of three or four decades during which the travelling population has been on the increase , although I have not been able to discover the measure of it . |
| 26 | The weights of 66 species of mammalian primary consumers in Gabon are nearly uniformly spread over a range of five orders of magnitude , the 11 shrew species alone covering three . |
| 27 | On Minoan pottery , the double-axe is sometimes painted over a bull 's head . |
| 28 | Where , well where er disruptive selection i i i is very huge differences between men , male and female and this was then accentuated over a period of time |
| 29 | He jumped piles of stones and rubbish in his way and almost tripped over a mound of rusty saucepans lying in the darkness . |
| 30 | Furthermore Jack , Larry , Terry , the Secretary of the Greater London Labour Party , have also been in possession of this evidence , and before and after receiving that evidence have apparently completely failed over a period of eight months to get Islington Labour Council to behave in a responsible fashion , just like Liverpool , and I 'm sure , just like a number of other Labour Councils . |