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 .
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