Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] over a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the orbit of the late Roman world , Christianity was primarily receptive ; it inherited a set of institutions ready-made , conformed to a social and political structure which had developed over a long period , and learned to live with a culture which it had little part in creating . |
| 2 | It was important , for instance , to know how the salary profile of Company A or the age profile of Division B had altered over a particular period . |
| 3 | After Peter Russell had slotted over a neat dropped goal on the Dungannon 22 , McGarry , before going off with a nose injury swung the game again in Dungannon 's favour with his final penalty of the match . |
| 4 | There , in the middle of nowhere , he found a copy of Tom Waits 's début album , Closing Time , which had melted over a disused railway track . |
| 5 | Following Barr 's ruling , Judge Marvin H. Shoob , who had presided over a criminal case arising from the BNL affair , criticized the Attorney General on the grounds that plea bargaining within the case had denied any opportunity to probe the affair fully and had left unanswered numerous crucial questions concerning the government 's role . |
| 6 | Even though Turtons ' had selected their file indiscriminately from stock to do battle with the French champion , even though the French company had brought over a special engineer to manipulate their product while Turtons ' had picked a man at random from the Sappers and Miners at the Exhibition , the French file had been humiliated . |
| 7 | Six had minor gunshot wounds , the seventh had tripped over a fallen tree and broken an arm . |
| 8 | ( 18 ) About four months before the time I am writing of , my Lady had been in London , and had gone over a Reformatory … |
| 9 | Christopher Hart told police he did not stop because he thought he had run over a cardboard box . |
| 10 | What was less obvious was the effect on the system as a whole , which had evolved over a long period of time influenced by a variety of political and economical pressures , and not necessarily in a methodical manner . |