Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dreadful cries ceased as a hand was clapped roughly over the young woman 's mouth . |
| 2 | This was performed by radiolabelling the food and monitoring its reflux with a small directional gamma detector , which was placed externally over the oesophagus , and connected to an ambulatory data recorder . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A persistent witchhunt was carried out over the proposed women candidates within the new Clinton administration , focusing on their childcare and domestic arrangements . |
| 9 | The dried blood from my nose was smeared all over the front of my mouth and it cracked when I tried to move my lips . |
| 10 | By 1800 the new Shorthorn was Britain 's tallest breed , the bulls standing 152cm at the withers ; the famous Durham Ox was 165cm tall and weighed 3,024 pounds as a five-year-old in 1801 when it was exhibited all over the country , remaining a star travelling showpiece until it dislocated its hip in 1807 . |
| 11 | She wore a matching crepe dress , which draped across her large bosom and red neck , and a mink stole was hung negligently over the back of her chair . |
| 12 | The special school sector was built up over a century or more . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | An Iranian airliner was shot down over the Gulf by a missile from a US cruiser in 1988 , killing 290 people . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He returned for five days in November 1991 when Selena Scott made a TV film A Prince Among Islands , which was shown all over the world . |
| 19 | Duncan Smith , defending , said : ‘ It appeared to be a fairly well laid out scheme which was used successfully over a considerable period of time . |
| 20 | And he must have been testin' in part fur flight refuellin' because Rodriguez says in his book he was refuelled somewhere over the Bellingshausen Sea , which is a long way west of the area where Sunderby lost his life . ’ |
| 21 | That pattern was duplicated all over the subcontinent . |
| 22 | and Mrs was born in over the river . |
| 23 | However the cry was raised all over the floor : " They 've removed their team leader " Some thirty young dealers applauded the courage of these two . |
| 24 | AN ARMY bomb disposal unit was called out over the weekend to destroy a live Second World War mortar bomb . |
| 25 | Both Jarlshof and Ness of Burgi have been covered in the thin film of oil which was deposited all over the southern part of Shetland . |
| 26 | The hair was brushed forward over the crown and textured in the fringe by Scissors |
| 27 | Her skin , like leathery bark , was stretched tightly over the skeleton , and in places where it had cracked and parted you could see the bones inside like old wood . |
| 28 | The wrinkled skin was stretched tightly over the bones , paper-thin , blue-shadowed over pink crêpe . |
| 29 | The Peugeot was found just over a mile away in Twinbrook . |
| 30 | 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 . |