Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] over a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | a fiery fellow ( the salamander was popularly supposed to be able to live in fire ) ; also , a circular iron plate which is heated and placed over a pudding or other dish to brown it ( OED ) . |
2 | It 's light , comfortable , and worn over a T-shirt , or even next to the skin , warm enough for the Scottish summer without making you sweat to death . |
3 | The prosecution 's only witness on the main charge that Beattie had convened and presided over a meeting of UDA officers to plan the murders was an anonymous Special Branch detective who claimed to be reporting evidence of a paid , anonymous informer . |
4 | Tied up and robbed , before they were shot and thrown over a cliff . |
5 | ‘ Mervyn had suggested we should make the Dalek transport machines out of cardboard tubes — sprayed silver and fitted over a person 's legs . |
6 | Often their estates were not concentrated in a single province , but scattered over a number . |
7 | But levied over a period of three years it brought in about £80,000 and became the prototype for later subsidies . |