Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact most outstanding problems were ironed out over the last couple of months , Goldstein says ; bug fixing remains . |
| 2 | In fact most outstanding problems were ironed out over the last couple of months , Goldstein says ; bug fixing remains . |
| 3 | Rather grudgingly a voice said , ‘ The Prime Minister ’ , and supporting voices were heard all over the room . |
| 4 | Two days later , when thunderstorms were muttering over the Slieve Mish and the sea crows were circling lazily over the valley , her father and brothers came for her and took her up to Ballymacadoyle Hill . |
| 5 | Savings groups were formed all over the country and children ran their own campaigns in schools . |
| 6 | Black rain clouds were scudding in over the Thames . |
| 7 | During Friday 20 May and Saturday the 21st the fierce chase continued , during which some of the French ships were scattered all over the Channel ; a few , like the Spanish Armada before them , only escaped by sailing right round the British Isles . |
| 8 | Every St Kildan family owned a number of cleits and they were scattered all over the island , many of them convenient to the bird cliffs because ‘ fresh ’ birds were much heavier than those that had dried out , and everything had to be carried back to the village eventually . |
| 9 | He was standing next to her pebble , yelling through a megaphone at the other beetles who were scattered all over the sheet measuring up circles drawn round all the various pebbles . |
| 10 | On the other hand , its members were scattered all over the United Kingdom , which made a northern town central . |
| 11 | Extensive geological and geophysical surveys were carried out over the next two years , and the governments negotiated with an international group of banks interested in financing the construction of the tunnel . |
| 12 | Vast amounts of capital and capacity were installed all over the world in expectation of continuing rising demand and no technological change . |
| 13 | We had a bit of a party in the Met Office that night , tearful farewells were said all over the place , and I departed the next morning with my kit and a bad headache , ready for whatever Fate had in store for me . |
| 14 | They were exhibited all over the world , and appeared in London at the Egyptian Hall in 1829 . |
| 15 | Reporters and photographers were swarming all over the sanatorium that day . |
| 16 | Twenty , 50 or 100 mg were infused intravenously over a period of 90 minutes . |
| 17 | When my right hon. Friend visits the United Nations , will he raise the issue of the RAF aircrew who were shot down over the Gulf , some of whom came from west Norfolk ? |
| 18 | Then an attempt was made to get rid of it at 800 deg C in the west midlands but the incinerator needed to be at 1,200 deg C. The result was that the dioxins from Bolsover in the east midlands were transmitted all over the west midlands . |
| 19 | The counterfeit cheques , for sums between £20 and £60 , were made out over a five-month period from March last year . |
| 20 | These were used copiously over the years of Stormont rule . |
| 21 | Metal castings were exported all over the world and an industrial proletariat developed very early . |
| 22 | By the 1900s , British Arts and Crafts houses were admired all over the world . |
| 23 | The new measures , similar to those in force in Britain and the US , were drawn up over the summer by Mr Lang 's Ministry , which is said to be interested in extending the French insurance model to the whole of Europe . |
| 24 | The lips were drawn back over a row of small pointed teeth in a ghastly grimace , a shriek of pain or terror . |
| 25 | We , we , we were playing in the er Alton league at one time , you know , we were doing quite well in that as well we got , one year we come second we got promoted to the first division after our first year , there was only three of their , there were four or five leagues going and they put us straight in the second division and er , but you were going all over the bloody place , you were going as far a field as Petersfield bloody old there was almost , there was one erm , just outside |
| 26 | The few remaining tanks of the Chelonian assault force were moving rapidly over the rock towards them . |
| 27 | Several sinuous black shapes were ghosting swiftly over the grass from the treeline opposite the front of the house . |
| 28 | I made contact , and the arrangements were firmed up over the next week . |
| 29 | By lunchtime , loose guns were rumbling all over the Tory deck . |
| 30 | She saw the building that Adolph Brückner had looked at on his arrival that day , the pain in his head threatening like the thunder clouds that were drifting back over the mountain tops . |