Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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1 | And I think it was an example of the trust that we 'd built up over the weeks and months that we were able to do it . |
2 | Other jobs they 'd pulled off over the years that we can nail them for . ’ |
3 | He wanted to make a person people would love — a little man of courage and kindness , a ‘ gent ’ down on his luck — and the character became loved all over the world , as well as making all the world laugh . |
4 | The night before , Kalchu and Sigarup went to the shrine , lit the oil lamp and tied two strips of new cloth — one red , one white — on to the rafters among the hundreds of old and blackened ones that had gathered there over the years . |
5 | In 1928 the Medical Officer reported that maternity and child welfare had developed remarkably over the last two years . |
6 | A third round of preliminary talks in Rome between the TPLF and the Ethiopian government on March 20-29 had broken down over the TPLF 's insistence that " substantive talks " should involve a joint delegation of the TPLF and its ally , the Ethiopian People 's Democratic Movement ( EPDM ) . |
7 | Cabinet negotiations had broken down over the balance of power in the government , with the " small coalition " demanding greater control over the economy than the PSL was prepared to concede . |
8 | Born in 1900 , the same year as the Queen Mother , he had spent twenty-three years at the top , he had travelled all over the world , he had stories and memories of escapades and people and was a colourful raconteur . |
9 | A group of armed Covenanters , under the command of Sir Robert Hamilton of Preston , East Lothian , had assembled at Rutherglen , and being opposed to Charles , had travelled all over the district , extinguishing the bonfires and stopping the celebrations . |
10 | She knew her character had altered completely over the last few years . |
11 | The hand reaching out for the bell had fallen slackly over the edge of the bed . |
12 | But they had fallen out over the collection of some money . |
13 | Opening the fourth and final day 's debate on the budget , Mr Heseltine flatly denied that he and Mr Lamont had fallen out over the VAT rise . |
14 | Opening the fourth and final day 's debate on the budget , Mr Heseltine flatly denied that he and Mr Lamont had fallen out over the VAT rise . |
15 | Channel shares had varied somewhat over the years , quite apart from the changes caused by the introduction of BBC2 and Channel 4 ( Table 6.18 ) . |
16 | She remembered Donna Fratelli 's raucous laugh , the number of times the two of them had sat together over a glass of wine or a plate of pasta , discussing the things which really matter : men , or life , or the latest movie . |
17 | Manpower had come down over the years from 470,000 in 1960 to 215,000 twenty years later , but the business was still over-staffed . |
18 | Helen had scrambled back over the wall . |
19 | This illness , a recurrence of the same symptoms ( violent colic , with spells of vomiting and attacks of fever ) that he had suffered intermittently over the past few years , was a sombre presage of his final illness , now only two years away . |
20 | She had given up counting the number of marriage proposals she had turned down over the years . |
21 | The fears which had crawled back over the stockade of his new self were banished : he was unassailable on the rock of Hause Point — what could harm him but Death which here would be no great enemy ? |
22 | Labour leaders had done well over the past few years to present themselves in Washington as solid members of the alliance and as social democrats more than socialists . |
23 | Jesus chucked out the rubbish from the temple and swept away some of the traditions that had grown up over the years , insisting that his house become again a house of prayer for all nations . |
24 | Blufton laughed , revealing a line of white teeth , regular except for the two upper canines which had grown forward over the teeth in front . |
25 | Most , but not all , of the islanders retreated to the mainland , returning five months later to discover that their island had grown by over a square mile and that nearly half the town had been destroyed . |
26 | According to a report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) in March 1990 , the economy had expanded vigorously over the past 2@1/2 years with growth averaging about 4 per cent annually , boosted in 1989 by an income tax reform [ see p. 36561 ] . |
27 | When I joined they had just published The Thorn Birds so Futura was on a real high — it had expanded considerably over the previous 18 months . ’ |
28 | The catalogue of hurts which had built up over the years was considerable . |
29 | It was an enormous leap , which he was able to make by virtue of the professional competence and political significance he had built up over the preceding twenty years . |
30 | The swell had built steadily over the past half-hour . |