Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] over [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some worshippers believe the water has healing properties when drunk or sprinkled over the sick . |
| 2 | However , it is unclear whether survival rates of those with dementia have increased or decreased over the post-war period . |
| 3 | Hence the focus is on local politics , on the ways in which these have changed and developed over the post-war period and on the concepts and theories used to account for such changes . |
| 4 | Clinical waste disposal is one of the areas where many difficulties can arise if the hospital site is ( as many older psychiatric facilities are ) geographically remote and scattered over a wide area . |
| 5 | A great deal has been said and written over the past two years about East European grandees being given back their property , but reality lags behind the talk . |
| 6 | A great deal of blood pumped and washed over the clean tiled floor . |
| 7 | I went across and bent over the little animal . |
| 8 | He went past me and bent over the dead man . |
| 9 | Made of thin rubber and worn over the erect penis , a condom prevents sperm from entering the woman . |
| 10 | The crane jib dipped and raised over the deep hold of the ‘ Marit ’ , each time raising out a neat sling of timber like some massive lucky dip . |
| 11 | Standards ( 0.1 ml aliquots of the labelled cells ) were made up to 50 ml with water and distributed over a fixed amount of filter paper in an identical container . |
| 12 | Standards ( 2% of the injected dose ) were made up to 200 ml with water and distributed over a fixed amount of filter paper in a plastic container . |
| 13 | If you 'd only taken my advice and gone over the other bridge — ’ |
| 14 | I stood staring at the jeep as it bumped and swayed over the uneven ground of the orchard until it reached the road and then disappeared in a cloud of dust . |
| 15 | As they correctly point out , this has broadened and diversified over the past twenty-five years . |
| 16 | And now time , which in the last ten minutes seemed mysteriously to have halted , flowed again and he was standing at his bedroom window five days later watching the great ball of the sun rise out of the sea to stain the horizon and spread over the eastern sky the veins and arteries of the new day . |
| 17 | The paper quotes an irate lawyer , accustomed to representing women pursuing harassment claims and incensed over the double standard , as saying Santa Cruz could have fired him for misconduct , employment agreement or no , and paid him nothing . |
| 18 | The paper quotes an irate lawyer , accustomed to representing women pursuing harassment claims and incensed over the double standard , as saying SCO could have terminated him for misconduct , employment agreement or no , and paid him nothing . |