Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [vb pp] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sculptor pioneered approaches to his medium that young artists today take for granted : sculpture conceived as an ensemble of elements scattered over a wide area ; site-specific installation ; public ‘ interactive ’ art and sculpture on a colossal scale . |
| 2 | Some of the marble floors in the great halls cracked under the weight of machinery moved over them after they had been prematurely laid down . |
| 3 | A mass of bodies scrambled over the shelves , everybody was shouting at one another and books were being thrown in all directions . |
| 4 | A wave of nausea swept over her , then she fainted . |
| 5 | A sudden wave of despondency washed over Robyn as her gaze drifted towards the statuette and she remembered the way she had felt up there only a few hours before . |
| 6 | Now he shrank inside as a wave of apprehension swept over him . |
| 7 | A wave of relief swept over her , making her nauseous and dizzy . |
| 8 | A wave of sympathy swept over him , some of which must have shown on his face , for Connon now smiled at him ironically . |
| 9 | A wave of misery swept over Cassie as she wondered if the last of her little dreams was to be shattered as cruelly as these other two ; the dream in which Johnny hated and despised his wife ; the one in which he planned to divorce her and marry Cassie instead . |
| 10 | Then a sudden wave of exhaustion swept over her , and she slid into a light doze . |
| 11 | A sudden wave of panic swept over her and she glanced at the others but it did n't seem as if she was going to learn anything for the moment . |
| 12 | A wave of guilt washed over her and receded , leaving her feeling slightly sick . |
| 13 | A wave of guilt washed over her which she angrily pushed aside . |
| 14 | A wave of tiredness swept over her once they were served . |
| 15 | When the Bastille fell in 1789 a wave of euphoria swept over Europe ; William Blake , blending together millennial hopes and biblical imagery , demonstrates the emotional release provided by the success of two revolutions accomplished overseas and the hope of a third to follow in England itself : |
| 16 | After all that had just happened , his apparent lack of emotion was impossible to bear , and a wave of anger washed over her . |
| 17 | There swiftly followed a post-modern embarrassment of Charly re-issues , soulboy standards , and a wave of remorse swept over Face readers the world over ( well , London over ) . |
| 18 | The first wave of Manichaeism swept over the Levant and Asia Minor in the third and fourth centuries — Bogomilism was the first manifestation of a neo-Manichaean movement which penetrated into southern and western Europe between the ninth and thirteenth centuries . |
| 19 | But the moment passed , for there was something in her grasp of his legs that was so awkward , so inexperienced , and the pitch of her entreaties remained so anguished that he knew she was only doing what she imagined might persuade him to help her ; and a wave of self-loathing washed over him , that a woman like her could think of a man like him in such a light . |
| 20 | The main owner of such schools is usually and indirectly the Church of Ireland , and current expenditure and salaries are provided by the state , with the board of governors presided over by the local minister . |
| 21 | … unashamedly , loudly , wetly — as spasm after spasm of misery washed over me . |
| 22 | He drank nightly with the Mason in the treasure cave he called a wagon , and a kind of normality settled over the grinding wickedness of the Miracle Pageant and its never-ending circuit . |
| 23 | He was the focal point of a vibrant Liverpool first half performance which went some way towards lifting the cloak of despondency draped over Anfield by Spartak 's superiority on Wednesday . |
| 24 | A look of determination spread over several faces as they hurtled from side to side , and several comical scenes were witnessed as spinnakers were flown on the downwind run . |
| 25 | Treatment has concentrated on the removal of dirt accumulated over the centuries and conservation of areas of the bronze affected by acid rain and pigeon droppings . |
| 26 | The wavefront of mist rolled over the Marines in a billowing carpet , though once the first rolling wave was past , the mist was much thinner , merely causing a watery distortion in everyone 's vision . |
| 27 | At the same time , a swell of pride swept over George . |
| 28 | These were : the skill and experience of the employee ; the nature of the work on which he was employed ; the place where the employee was employed ; the degree of control exercised over him by the tortfeasor ; the relationship between the tortfeasor ( associated company ) and the employee ; and the relationship between the employer and the tortfeasor . |
| 29 | Our horses had more sense and refused to go further so we stabled them at a local inn where we satisfied our hunger on a dish of fish cooked over charcoal before making our way up to the castle . |
| 30 | By the 1920s an elaborate hierarchy of colours indicated the position of the record within a class system ; the overall range of prices varied over the years , but not the implied class structure . |