Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] over [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In at least two of the areas I visited the regional health authority and some of the first wave fundholders were wrangling over the savings accrued during the first year . |
| 2 | The allowances were varied over the years to take account of inflation , but were never particularly generous . |
| 3 | If there was no natural cover , camouflage nets were slung over the trucks , while the men tended to disperse themselves some distance away , preferably in the lee of a rock . |
| 4 | They were shouting over the sides as the ships came up close , exchanging nonsense and laughing . ’ |
| 5 | It was a rough crossing , and most people were rather quiet , and a few were vomiting over the railings and indeed all over the upper-deck , but Clara had never felt better , and the rough lurching seemed to her an added attraction . |
| 6 | The curtains were drawn over the windows looking towards Regent 's Park and he had n't turned on the light . |
| 7 | It was warm and cosy ; crimson velvet curtains were drawn over the windows and the panelled walls glowed darkly . |
| 8 | Clouds of flies were crawling over the faces of the dead Germans . |
| 9 | More were found over the weeks , and were removed as they were spotted and put into a rearing aquarium . |
| 10 | The cooking fires were lit and pots were set over the flames to boil . |
| 11 | They were reminiscing over the times they had worked together , and this she found irritating . |
| 12 | To imagine what it would have been like a hundred years ago , when men were swinging over the cliffs on ropes made of horsehair , and climbing the soaring pinnacles of Stac Lee and Stac an Armin to harvest the gugas , the young gannets which would ensure they survived the next winter . |
| 13 | ‘ Statues of the gods once stood in the niches that surround us , but they were borrowed over the centuries and not returned . |
| 14 | As a result of this , their professional commitment to arms grew : in France , in the second half of the fourteenth century , some esquires ( men on the very fringe of noblesse ) were promoted over the heads of knights , whose numbers in the French army declined anyhow after about 1380 , a suggestion that professionalism was coming to be well regarded . |
| 15 | Once the body had been placed in the coffin and the fitted pillow positioned under the head , these ‘ sheets ’ were folded over the remains and either pinned together or roughly sewn into place . |
| 16 | A few fainting cases were passed over the heads of the crowd to the touchline . |
| 17 | In the early 1920s , the destination boxes were lowered to a position at the top of the end decency panels and hoops were fitted over the canopies , these were all of the flat topped type and carried a stairhead lamp . |
| 18 | Just after the 1914–1918 war , hoops were fitted over the ends of the upper deck and at the same time , the destination boxes were placed under the canopy edge . |
| 19 | The forests were cleared over the years for a variety of reasons : because people were scared of wolves , which roamed the area well into the seventeenth century ; to make sure travellers could see robbers , before robbers saw them ; to provide timber for shipbuilding : trees were felled and floated downstream through Loch Tummel and the River Tay to Perth . |
| 20 | Several minor deities had drifted up and were kibitzing over the shoulders of the players . |
| 21 | Two Tass reporters said tear-gas shells were fired over the heads of the demonstrators at around 11pm after an army officer had appealed in vain through a megaphone for them to disperse . |
| 22 | Dustsheets covered all the furniture and were draped over the pictures stacked against the wall . |
| 23 | Analysts were divided over the prospects for share prices as the widely based FT-SE 100 index lost a further 30.5 points to close at 2,247.0 . |
| 24 | The secular and religious authority enjoyed by this clan was recognized over the years in an ever wider area of the country , and during the seventh century the head of the clan used the title of emperor or empress on the Chinese model . |
| 25 | He was being sick right and he was hanging over the banisters like this these flats and I could n't stop laughing . |
| 26 | I awakened Taff at first light ( for stand-to ) as the early morning Normandy mist was gathering over the fields and hedgerows . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , she was walking over the stones and I wondered if she was cut , but she was n't . |
| 28 | In April 1990 a charging order under the Criminal Justice Act 1988 was made over the houses of Pottle and Randle to secure the payment to the Crown of a possible confiscation order under that Act . |
| 29 | After burial at Santiago , a church was built over the relics . |
| 30 | The pilot was slumped over the controls . |