Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [vb pp] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two strips of waste wood were slowly fed over the revolving cutter and cramped to the table . |
| 2 | The royal arms , which symbolized the supremacy of the crown over the church , were generally placed over the tympanum where the rood had previously stood . |
| 3 | The old bricks were still scattered over the foreshore . |
| 4 | Early in 1953 Britain and Egypt were still deadlocked over the future of the Suez base , while no settlement seemed in prospect to the dispute with Iran over the nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company . |
| 5 | Francis Pym 's dismissal from the office of Foreign Secretary was widely reported in advance during the 1983 general election ; the dismissals of Patrick Jenkin at Environment and Peter Rees at the Treasury in September 1985 were extensively trailed over the summer ; the same was true of Mr Biffen 's dismissal in June 1987 . |
| 6 | The BAF secretary , David Bedford , and treasurer John Lister — both seeking re-election — were also rapped over the knuckles for their part in a vote of no confidence delivered against Jones . |
| 7 | So will Nabisco pay the cost of therapy for those who were psychologically unhinged over the cornflakes ? |
| 8 | Almost 900 single GKM giants/supergiants in the Bright Star Catalogue were not detected in the X-ray survey ; these were well distributed over the H-R diagram ( Fig. 1 , top panel ) . |
| 9 | But opinions were equally divided over the Government 's recent record . |
| 10 | All the agencies they contacted , despite being willing to help , all reported that their staff were fully booked over the holiday . |
| 11 | While Nestorians went their own way , the orthodox were again split over the manner in which divine and human natures were united in the person of Christ . |
| 12 | Cooper kept constant his production of cows and sheep in pasture during the length of his very lengthy career and , in spite of such a very narrow register for the subject of his painting , his works were steadily collected over the years . |
| 13 | It was successfully tested over the deserts of New Mexico on 16 July 1945 , before the war with Japan was over . |
| 14 | Synthetic cholecystokinin-8 ( 100 pg/ml final concentration ; Sigma , Germany ) was additionally infused over the last 20 minutes of the sampling period at a constant flow of 0.2 ml/minute to stimulate the exocrine pancreas . |
| 15 | Branson was personally angered over the negotiations with the singer Sade . |
| 16 | The reach of the sea up estuaries and along the great rivers was much extended over the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries . |
| 17 | This possibly indicates that the alignment was intentionally placed over the countryside from the church at Bishops Cannings to the one at Didcot some 54 kilometres away . |
| 18 | The basilican church was generally built over the burial place of the saint to whom it was dedicated . |
| 19 | The dummy was still propped over the desk , the shower curtain drawn . |
| 20 | She was still positioned over the table , and could feel the full weight of his body stretched over her back . |
| 21 | John Greame built Sewerby Hall on the site of the old manor house in 1715 and the property was gradually extended over the years , being completed by the adding of the conservatory in Victorian times . |
| 22 | The programme was gradually effected over the years , with interruptions for the trailer and OMO programmes , the last car 709 being rebuilt in 1980 ! |
| 23 | It was probably completed over the weekend of March 27 . |
| 24 | It was probably steered over the stern by a large paddle . |
| 25 | A man was later charged over the ‘ pure fluke ’ find near Amersham , Bucks . |
| 26 | Concern was also expressed over the growing disparity between living standards in Phnom Penh and in the rest of the country . |
| 27 | It was also splashed over the back seat of the car , which was then set ablaze by the pair , who then fled into the darkness . |
| 28 | There was astonishment also at what Sylvie Guillem could do with her legs , and excited suspense was also manifested over the question of whether Inès de la Fressange was coming or whether she had been deemed to be too much associated with Chanel and had therefore , in spite of being a close personal friend of Christian 's , been unceremoniously dumped . |
| 29 | In a union in which both the lobon-gur solution and the rice-salt solution had been taught , LGS was also preferred over the rice-salt therapy , despite the recognition by the mothers of the fact that children treated with the latter recovered from diarrhoea and vomiting more quickly than those treated with LGS . |
| 30 | ‘ Davey was really hauled over the coals the following Monday . ’ |