Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [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 | ‘ Yes , but how many of these wonderfully high-paid jobs have you been offered over the past eighteen months ? ’ |
| 5 | A divorced woman can only use her former husband 's contribution record to establish her right to the basic pension and only provided she contributes in her own right as soon as the marriage ends and she does not remarry ( unless she is divorced over the age of 60 ) . |
| 6 | She was slumped over the steering wheel of her car . |
| 7 | When she was hit over the head with a brick and put off work for four months , she came back for more . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This month 's Top Ten features the best utilities we 're reviewed over the past 18 months . |
| 10 | ‘ We were shown over the house . |
| 11 | They are laid over the existing floor surface ; most are tongued-and-grooved , so only occasional mailing or clipping is required to hold them in place . |
| 12 | Through ethnographic research set in Albany , New York , a team of anthropologists from Queen 's University , Belfast , will investigate the range of beliefs and practices connected with Ireland that are current among Albany 's Irish-American population ; how Ireland and ‘ being Irish ’ in America are represented in everyday life , how they are distributed over the generations , and they may vary along socio-economic dimensions . |
| 13 | On this occasion they were accompanied over the later stages by Pagon and Sellwood , the two British ladies ' K1s , also bringing up the rear of their class . |
| 14 | From being able to cope just about ) with everyday life they were tipped over the edge into breakdown , from which only a few were able to re-emerge . |
| 15 | than than they were quoted over the phone but |
| 16 | ‘ Statues of the gods once stood in the niches that surround us , but they were borrowed over the centuries and not returned . |
| 17 | Mr Wolski had already read the accounts of him being seen over the Chiltern Hills north-west of London soon after leaving the Regent 's Park area and later a certain sighting by a member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in East Anglia who saw him feeding off sheep carrion on chalk downland . |
| 18 | Has n't it been changed over the years to say different things from what the original writers intended ? |
| 19 | It 's changed over the years , but it 's still for what I 'd like to think of as the intelligent , discerning young music fan . ’ |
| 20 | This creeps across the shelf and down the continental slope , spreading along the sea-bed ; much of it is formed over the shelves of the Weddell and Ross bights , and from there it spreads far northward into the northern hemisphere . |
| 21 | If it is mounted over the sink , a normal swivelling outlet spout is used . |
| 22 | It is hung over the last ( open ) chamber of a filter , and apparently uses ultra violet frequencies that are guaranteed not to destroy filter bacteria — only to disrupt algae/hydra spores . |
| 23 | The floor is at a higher level in the sanctuary where it is built over the enormous crypt beneath . |
| 24 | Flysheet : the flysheet has eyelets at its base which , once it is draped over the inner , fix onto the poles at ground level so that both inner and fly are attached to the poles . |
| 25 | And it is specialised over the years in craft training , particularly in relation to the building and engineering trades , and has made unique provision in the district for the less able . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's deteriorated over the year — sometimes he does n't recognise me now ; and I have to fight him to get him to do anything . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It was written over the entrance , gold letters on purple gloss on red brick . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Ratings now steadied the canoe as it was put over the side , lying on the hydroplanes . |