Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [vb pp] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though Jackson was the first to congratulate Olympic champion McKoy , the disappointment was written all over his face . |
| 2 | Though Jackson was the first to congratulate the Olympic champion , the disappointment was written all over his face . |
| 3 | Though Jackson was the first to congratulate the Olympic champion , the disappointment was written all over his face . |
| 4 | A charity dance held on the night of the theft was attended by over 300 people . |
| 5 | The command was tossed languidly over his shoulder and immediately loaded crossbows were brought up and aimed at our chests . |
| 6 | The mining equipment was lined up over the shaft . |
| 7 | The special school sector was built up over a century or more . |
| 8 | The election campaign was monitored by over 2,000 local and foreign observers who reported that the campaign period was generally free from intimidation and violence . |
| 9 | However the cry was raised all over the floor : " They 've removed their team leader " Some thirty young dealers applauded the courage of these two . |
| 10 | Er the American civil war was fought essentially over federalism er involving many millions of men and er in which over half a million men died . |
| 11 | The WARC was attended by over 1,400 delegates from 127 countries and 31 international and regional organisations . |
| 12 | The dried blood from my nose was smeared all over the front of my mouth and it cracked when I tried to move my lips . |
| 13 | English parchment was needed all over Europe , whilst in England French wines would always be sold . |
| 14 | The rally was attended by over 3,000 deputies to soviets at all levels ( from rural soviets to the USSR Supreme Soviet ) , and these met subsequently to adopt overwhelmingly a declaration calling on the USSR Supreme Soviet to enter into negotiations " on the restoration of Estonian state independence " . |
| 15 | That pattern was duplicated all over the subcontinent . |
| 16 | In 1971 , a new covenant was signed by over half a million men and women , committing protestants to a renewal of the covenant political ideal . |
| 17 | The complex adaptation of the organism to its physical and organic environment was built up over time through the constant application of pressures that are never stable . |
| 18 | The start was delayed by over half an hour because one of the health visitors had been busy through the day , and things went downhill from there . |
| 19 | As fast as FAX and having user groups for just about every computer and software product around , it is becoming one of the main channels for passing information around the scientific community for example , much of the debate on Cold Fusion was carried out over the Internet . |
| 20 | Supporters have been visiting the new hospice premises at Harewood House where a very successful coffee morning was attended by over 100 people . |
| 21 | A MAN was arrested yesterday over the murder of schoolgirl Lesley Molseed 17 years ago . |
| 22 | A FOURTH man was arrested yesterday over the Maxwell fraud scandal . |
| 23 | A tiny creature who was muffled in a tunic with the collar upturned and with a scarf across her mouth and a forage cap whose peak was pulled down over her eyes . |
| 24 | It was usually something quite silly and trivial , like leaving the taps running in the bath huts or over-stuffing the dustbins so that mess and litter was spread all over the ground , but sometimes someone 's carelessness resulted in the whole inadequate drainage system being completely overloaded and clogged up . |
| 25 | At other points the road was built out over the river , at one point over the top of former pilchard cellars , still to be seen . |
| 26 | politically , too , despite tensions over Berlin and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 , the furore over the U2 incident when an American reconnaissance plane was shot down over the Soviet Union , and the shock of the Soviet lead in space exploration and technology , tensions between the two superpowers had not returned to the glacial levels of a decade earlier . |
| 27 | An American U2 reconnaissance plane was shot down over Russia and its pilot , Gary Powers , captured . |
| 28 | The dreadful cries ceased as a hand was clapped roughly over the young woman 's mouth . |
| 29 | A hand was clapped roughly over her mouth , and she was almost lifted up by the arms and moved at a run back into the house , where Mrs Prynn was waiting in her nightcap and gown , with the trap door into the cellar open and the key in her hand . |
| 30 | Immediately a hand was placed firmly over her head and turned it to face the front again . |