Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some worshippers believe the water has healing properties when drunk or sprinkled over the sick . |
| 2 | The cubs , all between three and seven weeks old , have been found orphaned or abandoned over the last few weeks . |
| 3 | However , it is unclear whether survival rates of those with dementia have increased or decreased over the post-war period . |
| 4 | ‘ Just talk to them , find out what they 've seen and heard over the last couple of weeks , ’ the DI said . |
| 5 | Millions Of Honey opened Saturday night with a sparky set of robust , melodic guitar songs that have toughened and matured over the last year of line-up shuffles , and should justly set them up for a spot of national service . |
| 6 | Defending her life and being jolted and shaken over the last few days had left her exhausted . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This was another of the instructions that would be repeatedly announced , ignored and forgotten over the next decade . |
| 9 | IT is a great privilege and pleasure for me to honour my old friend and colleague John Gillam , with whom I have worked and argued over the last thirty years . |
| 10 | We 've noticed that the numbers of young homeless people who are coming to see us have risen and risen over the last few months and few years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A great deal of blood pumped and washed over the clean tiled floor . |
| 13 | I went across and bent over the little animal . |
| 14 | He went past me and bent over the dead man . |
| 15 | Made of thin rubber and worn over the erect penis , a condom prevents sperm from entering the woman . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | First discovered in 1695 , the pavement has been repeatedly buried and re-exposed over the last three centuries . |
| 18 | I would also like to know how members think a branch development strategy should be drafted , approved and introduced over the next few months . |
| 19 | If you 'd only taken my advice and gone over the other bridge — ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | As they correctly point out , this has broadened and diversified over the past twenty-five years . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The pit is now a museum where visitors can go underground and discover how miners have worked and lived over the last 200 years . |
| 26 | The programs we use to produce it have been developed and improved over the last few years . |
| 27 | Grazing groups receive aid based on the number of livestock managed in common and paid over the first 3 years after being set up ; amounts range from 144FF to 370FF per livestock unit ( c. £12.50-£32. 17 ) , the higher rates payable to the groups with least livestock units . |