Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The song was bellowing out over the din of the battle . |
| 2 | He reached up and ruffled Prentice 's hair in the semi-darkness ; the boy 's head was hanging out over the top bunk . |
| 3 | His turnout exceedingly elegant , the father was walking on over the hard curd-white earth down the double track of the carts towards the small port on the coast ahead . |
| 4 | The cassock had a thin hood , held in place over the attendant 's head and face by what looked like the brim from an old and worn red hat ; it was squeezed down over the attendant 's head , the top of the hood showing through where the hat 's crown should have been . |
| 5 | This was carried out over a three-week period using a mixture of interviews and questionnaires covering a representative sample of persons from the CSSU and the departments . |
| 6 | Since it was carried out over a four-month summer period ( May-August ) , the practices of these industries with summer peaks will have been better captured than the practices of those with peaks at other times of the year . |
| 7 | An offshore spectrometric survey was carried out over the seaward extension of Geevor mine to detect additional mineralised lodes and to map the granite/killas contact ( MEG 264 ) . |
| 8 | As fast as FAX and having user groups for just about every computer and software product around , it is becoming one of the main channels for passing information around the scientific community for example , much of the debate on Cold Fusion was carried out over the Internet . |
| 9 | A persistent witchhunt was carried out over the proposed women candidates within the new Clinton administration , focusing on their childcare and domestic arrangements . |
| 10 | He was looking out over the prison courtyard , watching the sheets of rain falling , the brightness of the observation lights along the prison walls reflecting in his eyes . |
| 11 | The special school sector was built up over a century or more . |
| 12 | They are not even about the accessibility of services , and they are certainly not about the development of economic and social policies — something that is so often ignored in the scramble to fragment and disintegrate what was built up over the last century by local government people of all political persuasions . |
| 13 | At other points the road was built out over the river , at one point over the top of former pilchard cellars , still to be seen . |
| 14 | An Iranian airliner was shot down over the Gulf by a missile from a US cruiser in 1988 , killing 290 people . |
| 15 | politically , too , despite tensions over Berlin and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 , the furore over the U2 incident when an American reconnaissance plane was shot down over the Soviet Union , and the shock of the Soviet lead in space exploration and technology , tensions between the two superpowers had not returned to the glacial levels of a decade earlier . |
| 16 | In May 1960 more talks began at leaders ' levels in Paris , with Eisenhower anxious to play the role of peacemaker in his last year in office , but the conference collapsed when a US spy aircraft was shot down over the USSR . |
| 17 | But the skies were darkening and the rain was pouring down over the fields . |
| 18 | So I flipped some cattle from the farm of and right between Egilsay and Rousay just a short distance , oh maybe a quarter of a miles or thereby , and oh did the shipping perfectly well and and went home and by the time I got home the message had arrived back before me that the there were two old cattle among the younger ones that the fellow had put there just to feed up and the last we saw of them was going up over the island and that was okay we thought everything was okay . |
| 19 | and Mrs was born in over the river . |
| 20 | The tree-branches creaked and the dry leaves rattled , for Baba Yaga was flying back over the trees in her pestle and mortar . |
| 21 | The blade was going in to its hilt , in , and in again , and the blood was spreading out over the priest 's hairless chest . |
| 22 | AN ARMY bomb disposal unit was called out over the weekend to destroy a live Second World War mortar bomb . |
| 23 | Dusk was drifting in over the park , covering the snow in gritty grey shadows , bringing the houses around the park alight almost simultaneously . |
| 24 | A thick , gold moon was coming up over the sea , glittering on the roofs of the town below them . |
| 25 | They ran side by side , easy with training , breathless only with amazement , and now the sun was coming up over the edge of the sea and the whole world was sharp and glittery , concrete and weeds , and the barbed wire hanging drops of dew and spiders ' webs . |
| 26 | On this occasion , Plage was set up over a water-hole in a clearing in the jungle , hoping that a leopard would show up to hunt or drink . |
| 27 | ‘ His hair had been clipped as closely as possible to the scalp , with the exception of a small patch on the crown of the head , which was pulled down over the forehead to form a fringe . ’ |
| 28 | Worst part was swinging out over the water — the only way to get into this Fort Knox of a Marina — clutching the slithery pole — trying not to shout ‘ Help ! ’ — leg splayed out over the harbour all murky and oily below … |
| 29 | Fog was creeping in over the island and in the distance the deep boom of a foghorn sounded , echoing her own sudden melancholy . |
| 30 | The Unix festival , UniForum ‘ 93 , did n't feel as successful a show as it was last year : it was spread out over a lot more acreage and split into two widely separated pavilions , and attendance looked sparse and the aisles empty despite show management 's claims of a 10% increase in traffic — like as not , it was talking about the pre-registration which was up , but unofficially we hear attendance was down ; UniForum is still more a Unix celebration than anything else but it remains to be seen whether there will still be things to celebrate or whether erosion has set in . |