Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [vb pp] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former take little account of the latter although much of the HMI 's thinking has become known over the same period i.e. the late 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 2 | At the first meeting in the department I did what every other Transport Minister appears to have done over the previous ten years : I hired Professor Sir Alec Cairncross to advise me . |
| 3 | A crust appears to have formed over the volcanic rubble , but red-hot lava began creeping over it yesterday and into a private orchard . |
| 4 | Nigel Worthington appears to have got over the disappointment of losing in last week 's FA Cup final replay to Arsenal and will play what is believed to be his 67th game of the season tomorrow . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the overall impression in all the islands is of coastline submergence ; a process that appears to have occurred over the last 8,000 years or so with the amount of sea level rise being estimated as approximately 5 m . |
| 6 | Patience is not what we associate with Pound , and from time to time he seems to have kicked over the traces ( at least once to be ticked off for it by Dorothy ) : yet we see all over again that the young Pound was well content with Edwardian England , was hopeful of it and ready to abide by its rules in everything that mattered . |
| 7 | North wanted the Monimbo seized or sunk ; Poindexter wanted ‘ measures taken to make sure ship does not arrive in Nicaragua ’ ; McFarlane seems to have choked over the legality of piracy , and the ship and the rifles got through . |
| 8 | He seems to have got over the shock pretty quickly . ’ |
| 9 | What seems to have happened over the last twenty years or so is that a higher proportion of juveniles are being dealt with officially by the police rather than being dealt with unofficially or warned . |
| 10 | it seems to have changed over the last few years |